David_E Loc: Maryland Eastern Shore

Unless you plan on a boat cruise when you are in Chincoteague you will be a long way from the horses as a rule. Better opportunities to photograph the horses at Assateague on the Maryland side. Other wildlife ,,, esp. birds and Sika Deer, you'll find at the wildlife refuge on Chincoteague. Enjoy your visit tomy world!!!

RTCreed Loc: Forest Park, IL

I've been there six or seven times over the past 45 years and all you need for photo opportunities is to start walking. Fortunately you will be going before the roundup and pony swim. While it is a fun experience, it is hard to imagine that many people on a small island, but somehow they do it. On my most recent trip I found the best pony opportunities on the causeway between the islands.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

I took this at Chincoteague in February a couple of years ago wth a 45mm lens.


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ronichas Loc: Long Island

Thanks so much for all the great suggestions.

David_E Loc: Maryland Eastern Shore

[quote=Gene51]I took this at Chincoteague in February a couple of years ago wth a 45mm lens.


Good capture Gene. Was that on
one of the hiking trails?

ronichas Loc: Long Island

Awesome image. Thanks for sharing that!

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

[quote=David_E]

Thanks!

It was on the Beach Access Rd, right after the pony corral, where there is a small creek that joins the Canal on the north side of the road with Toms Cove on the south side. There were about 30 or so horses hanging around.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Thanks!

There are lots of birds and wildlife to shoot at Chincoteague. The first 4 were taken with a Sony RX10M4. The rest with either a D800 or a D810. It's unusual to have a fox approach the camera like that.

Now is a great time to go to Chincoteague - lots and lots of opportunities on the trails and even off the Beach Access Road.

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Great Blue Heron

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Great White Egret

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Red Fox

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Northern Mockingbird

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Tricolor Heron

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Eastern Hognose Snake

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ronichas Loc: Long Island

Gene,
These are great images. I am going with 2 other photographers. I have been there before, several years ago
Any specific location in Chincoteague? I stayed at the Chincoteague Field Station, it was a photo tour.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

An impressive group of wonderful shots

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Thanks!

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Just about any place past the entrance booth is good.

The area near the lighthouse if you go late in the afternoon-evening.

On the Beach Access Rd, he first open area after the wildlife loop, on the right side, you'll always find horses, and you may get lucky and see the mares nursing their newborn foals which are likely being born just this week. I took this shot June 2, and they look to be about 6 weeks old already.They are often accompanied by Cattle Egrets.

A little further down Beach Access Rd, there are canals on both sides of the road - with the ones on the north side more productive than the south side. Kingfishers, Snowy and Great White egrets, Little Blue, Great Blue and tricolor herons, ducks, gulls, terns etc all live here.

I've seen but not shot the Delmarva Fox Squirrel - the Arnold Schwartzenegger of the squirrel world - can sometimes be seen in the wooded areas along the hiking trails. You'll know it because it is dull gray and as big as a small cat.

When you get to the last stretch of the access roads, more wading birds, like Willets, Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs, Black Throated Stilts, Oystercatchers, Plovers and all sorts of gulls.

Of course you can go there and see nothing - which has happened to me, especially in the dead of winter.

This may be helpful:

https://birdingvirginia.org/accomack/hotspots/chincoteague-nwr

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Alyn McConnaha Loc: Lebanon, IN

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