Middle Island, DE
Photo and Description by Tony Pratt
Spring signals the return of many birds that will settle in on our marshes and shores for breeding season. I caught these egrets challenging each other for a roosting branch as a warm, late- spring sunrise started the day. Such is life in the rookery.         

Oxford, MD
Photo and Description by Jill Jasuta
At Enie and Muriel Throop’s waterfront home in Oxford overlooking Goldsborough Creek (off of the Tred Avon River),

Lewes, DE
Photo and Description by Tony Pratt
The beauty of our coastal region is not confined to warm, summer months. Winter brings a stark beauty all its own. Brutally cold temperatures formed icicles on the rocks of a jetty at Cape Henlopen State Park following a high-tide wave-splash. Catching the rising sun from within the jetty rocks at Herring Point was a unique and beautiful scene.

Overbrook, DE
Photo by Tony Pratt
Cornfields of Delmarva are winter havens for snow geese. When snow covers the fields, food is tough to find but this snow goose uncovered a nice piece of winter cress, which its peers coveted, and the chase was on. To photographer Tony Pratt, it created a great Christmas goose scene.  

Smith Island, MD
Photo by Jay Fleming
Waterman Lester “Lecky” Tyler fishes up soft crabs at his Rhodes Point crab shanty at dusk. After catching peeler crabs, watermen bring them back to their shanties, where they hold them in tanks, called floats, until they shed into soft crabs.

Holland Island, MD
Photo by Jay Fleming
Jay Fleming approaches the last house on Holland Island by kayak in April of 2010,