 Laysan albatross |
 Black-footed Albatross |
 Our 'bird' to Midway |
 Not that comfortable |
 Nor were its instruments accurate |
 Most of Midway's buildings were built in the 50's |
 Charle barracks - our home |
 with the birds |
 Our limo's |
 The birds were everywhere |
 Laysan Albatrosses |
 Courting |
 Preening |
 Communicating |
 Courting |
 Courting II |
 Courting III |
 Three some |
 Even a foursome |
 Mom and chick |
 Laysan Albatross chick |
 Laysan Albatross chick, Midway Island |
 Common road hazzard |
 Preferred method of clearing the road |
 Feed her chick |
 Feeding her chick II |
 Photographing the feeding |
 Upclose |
 Native bird, nonnative plant |
 Takeoff |
 Close together |
 Regardless of which way they took off |
 It took them a while to get going |
 One flying |
 Many flying |
 there were many in the air and on the ground |
 Even more flying |
 Landings |
 Were not always clean |
 This one landed in the wrong place |
 Laysan and Black-footed Albatross |
 Black-footed Albatross |
 Black-footed Albatross |
 Black-footed Albatross |
 Feeding her chick |
 Black-footed Albatross flying |
 Black-footed Albatross landing |
 You could get very close to the birds |
 Very close |
 You could even talk to them |
 Too big a lens for too close a bird |
 Red-tailed Tropicbird |
 Red-tailed Tropicbird II |
 2 Red-tailed Tropicbirds |
 2 Red-tailed Tropicbirds |
 TropicBird with chick |
 Tropicbird feeding chick |
 Brown Nooby |
 Laysan Albatross surfing a wave, Midway Island |
 Laysan Albatross surfing a wave II |
 Keeping ahead of the curl |
 White tern |
 White tern with mate |
 White tern flying |
 White tern |
 White tern |
 White tern, Midway Island |
 Lining up for that perfect shot |
 Everyone in synch |
 Sooty tern |
 Sooty Tern up close |
 Ocean garbage that can end up in bird's stomach |
 Masked Booby |
 Midway Beach (Rusty Bucket) |
 Monk Seal |
 Common Canary |
 Uncommon Laysan Duck (1 of 500) |
 Petral |
 Sunset off Rusty Bucket |
 Sunset off Rusty Bucket, Midway Island |