Category: Galleries

More Hiking in Our Future. We stopped in Vancleave on the way to Ward Bayou for breakfast at Lucky’s Diner — one of the few places that welcomes the dogs. The bacon was excellent and our waitress was absolutely charming, all smiles. The coffee and water came in Styrofoam cups, and all the condiments —…

Ocean Springs Front Beach & Clay Point Park We had breakfast at Fatspoon this morning, they have the best omelets and biscuits. Then we drove down the beach front over to Back Bay Blvd. Ran into Steve and Jake birding south of the railroad. Steve is considering a new telephoto lens, Prime or zoom so…

Crisp, Clear Fall Morning A beautiful fall morning walking the preserve, with more birds than on any previous visit. Patty has arranged a Mississippi Coast Audubon Society (MCAS) field trip, led by Jake Pettigrew of the Department of Marine Resources, on Saturday, October 31. The trip is open to everyone, so come join us. It…

October 18, 2026 Claypoint Park sits on Back Bay Boulevard in Biloxi, just south of the railroad tracks near Point Cadet — you may have wondered why this stretch feels so productive for birding and photography, especially during migration. The answer turns out to be Katrina. Before August 29, 2005, this area looked nothing like…

Patty is back home, and while she was away I put a new deck on her birding chair platform. Yesterday morning we headed out to Ward Bayou — migration season is in full swing, everybody’s headed south, and there’s plenty of color and activity out there. The waders were sparse, but hurricane Isaias out in…

October 4, 2026 Between showers! Click the image to view full size and browse the gallery. Something exciting is in the works. While Patty was going through some old belongings, she came across slides — some of them 50 to 60 years old — and asked if I could try to digitize and recover them.…

Nautical Twilight The kids and I were out before daylight this morning, and the calm Back Bay water and reflecting light was captivating — that deep blue stage of twilight with just a hint of gold on the velvety water. We returned after breakfast and had a completely different view. After sorting the images I…

September 10, 2026 From Our Back Porch The hummingbirds are migrating back south, stopping over here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast to fuel up before crossing the Gulf of Mexico — and we have hummers galore. I think this is the most we’ve had in the three-plus years we’ve lived here. We have seven feeders…

September 6, 2026 Patty, the kids, and I had our Sunday morning breakfast at Fat Spoon. Midway through, Patty got word of a sighting on the coast in Biloxi — a Buff-breasted Sandpiper on the large lawn in front of Harrah’s. They’re an unusual bird and a species of growing conservation concern. And a life…

August 30, 2026 Good morning world. A few mornings ago, Baby Girl, Rascal and I launched the Bird Barge at Biloxi Harbor around four-thirty in the morning; our purpose was to greet the sunrise. We headed out around the west end of Deer Island toward the shrimp boats. There were four of them working out…