– Excerpt from William Bartram’s Travels; Part II, Chapter III “From the buttress, the Cypress, as it were, takes another beginning, … More
Category: Okefenokee Birding
The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia provides wonderful birding opportunities to observe and list the Anhinga, Ibis, Stork, Cormorant, Heron, Egret, Woodpecker, Parula, Hawk, Thrush, Grebe and more.
The Heron is at Home
In 1895, naturalist Bradford Torrey wrote of the Green Heron being at home in watery woods such as the Okefenokee … More
Francis Harper’s Okefenokee Florida Barred Owl
In October 1913, Francis Harper explored the Okefenokee Swamp and published his journal in The Auk, the official publication of the American Ornithological … More
Okefenokee Green Heron
An excerpt from my March 10, 2015 Okefenokee Journal; my daughter’s first trip to the Okefenokee. Tuesday, 4:13 PM – … More
Virtual Okefenokee Exploration through iNaturalist
The Okefenokee has grown into an obsession! Even though I have opportunity for only a few “boots-on-the-ground” days in the … More
Great Egret, The Handsomest Heron
In 1894, naturalist and ornithologist Bradford Torrey wrote of the Great Egret in his book, A Florida Sketch-Book. “Incomparably the handsomest … More
Graceful Genius
An excerpt from A Florida Sketch-Book, by naturalist Bradford Torrey, written in 1895: “I look up from my paper to see … More
Okefenokee Swamp Spotted Sandpiper
Scanning the shore with my binoculars as my daughter piloted our canoe around Billy’s lake, I was a bit startled … More
Okefenokee Swamp Pileated Woodpeckers
March 4, 2017 on Billy’s Lake – Around 5:00 pm, after getting shots of a beautiful, white, Great Egret, we … More
A Refuge for the Soaring Swallow-tailed Kite
After several trips to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge that ended in a bust, I was really hoping this trek … More
Okefenokee Photography Project by William Wise 