Jay Fleming Photography

Black Skimmers

Nesting Laughing Gulls

Royal Tern Colony

Great Egret, Sinepuxent Bay

Great Egret chicks, Chincoteague Bay

Sandtiger Shark, Atlantic Ocean

Skeleton beaches, Eastern Shore, Virginia

Herring Gull, Larus argentatus 

 Herring Gull eating Cormorant egg

Great Black Backed Gull Nest 

juvenile Great Black Backed Gull, Larus marinus

juvenile American Oystercatcher, Haematopus palliatus

juvenile Double Crested Cormorants, Phalacrocorax auritus

Eastern Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis carolenisis 

 

juvenile Brown Pelicans

the colony

Shark #1 2009

Sean Kane and 106.5″ Sandtiger Shark

Jay Fleming and 100″ Sandtiger

In addition to shooting pictures I devout a great amount of time to fishing. Beginning in late May and early June Sandtiger, Brown and Dusky sharks will stage at the mouth of the Delaware Bay to lay their pups once the waters reach the appropriate temperature. Along with friends, Harper and Barratt Cullen, and my brother, Ben we have caught and released over 60 sharks in the last two seasons. Before releasing the sharks we collect data and tag the shark. This data (length, sex, gear, and location of capture) is recorded on the corresponding tag card which is sent to the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Apex Predator Program. If tagged sharks are caught at a later date, the data from the recapture is compared with the data from the capture and provides information about migrations, abundance, fishing mortality, growth rates, and behavior. 

2009 Shark Count:

13 Sandtigers

2 Dusky Shark

I will continue to update this page as we catch more sharks throughout the season.

Historic St. Mary’s City- 5/14/2009 

St. Mary’s College of Maryland senior Jay Fleming, of Annapolis, won the Annual Student Art Exhibit’s Joseph Marion Gough, Jr. Excellence in Art Award for his photograph titled “Osprey.”  The award is given annually by a committee from the Leonardtown PNC Bank who, along with other local business leaders in the county, made up the jury for the student art show.  The photograph, along with other works from the show, are on display through August at the bank.

Other SMCM students whose work is now on display at the PNC Bank include Kris Fulk ’09, Emily Davis ’10, Dan Bedford ’09, Yujia Dong (Casey) ’12, F.A. Meatyard ’09, Allison Yancone ’11, Dana Gitting ‘11, Sarah Eargle ’10, Neal Stuckenschneider ’09, Laine Donovan ’09, and Bonnie Veblen ’09.

The art award was named in memory of Joseph Marion Gough Jr.  Gough was the president of PNC’s predecessor bank, First National Bank of St. Mary’s, and was a generous supporter of SMCM. 

http://www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/13231 

 

 

Eastern Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis carolenisis  

Double-Crested Cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus

Great Egret, Sinepuxent Bay

Great Egret, Indian River Bay

 

Cattle Egret, Sinepuxent Bay

Black Crowned Night Heron and Great Egrets, Sinepuxent Bay

Little Blue Heron, Sinepuxent Bay 

Snowy Egret, Indian River Bay

Snowy Egret Nest, Chincoteauge Bay 

Great Egret silhouette, Indian River Bay

Great Blue Heron chicks, Chincoteauge Bay 

American Oystercatchers, Indian River Bay

Semipalmated Sandpiper, Burtons Island

Common Tern Nest, Rehoboth Bay 

Canada Geese, Marshyhope Creek

Canada Goose eggs, Rehoboth Bay 

Hickory Shad, Susquehanna River

abandoned Coast Guard Station, Cedar Island

Whimbrel

 Osprey

Brown Pelican 

Hummingbird 

Iguana 

Howler Monkey 

 

Yellow Bellied Sea Snake 

 

Banana Spider 

Gandoca-Manzanillo National Wildlife Refuge 

Punta Uva 

Punta Cocoles 

Manzanillo del Caribe 

Spiny Lobster

Puerto Viejo 

Playa Cocoles 

Salsa Brava 

Santa Teresa

Playa Hermosa 

Manzanillo-Silvestre 

Manzanillo 

Santa Teresa 

Manzanillo-Silvestre 

Pacific Ocean

Tundra Swans, Deal Island, Maryland 

Tundra Swans, Prime Hook, Delaware 

Snow Geese, Lewes, Delaware 

Great Blue Heron, Blackwater River, Maryland 

 American Bittern, Fairmont, Maryland

 sunset, Hoopers Island, Maryland

 White-Tailed Deer, Kent Island, Maryland

 Sika Deer skeleton, Frenchtown, Maryland

 moonrise, Dames Quarter Marsh, Maryland

 marsh sunrise, Blackwater River, Maryland

 looking west on the Blackwater River, Maryland

 Gum Swamp cabin, Blackwater River, Maryland

 workboat, Taylors Island, Maryland

 1967 Chevorlet, Fairmont, Maryland

workboat, Saxis, Virginia 

Whelk Shells, Eastern Shore, Virginia

stilt house, Metompkin Inlet, Virginia 

East End Breakwater, Lewes, Delaware

After exams my brother and I headed to southwest Florida to explore the waters of Pine Island Sound. We stayed for a just about month, fishing and shooting pictures every day

 

Willets

 

 

 

 

 

Black Skimmers 

 

Brown Pelican

 

 

 

Royal Terns

  

Ring Billed Gulls

 

 

Anhinga

 

Broad Tailed Hawk 

 

Bald Eagle 

 

 

Raccoon

 

Lubber Grasshopper 

 

 

 

 

Red Drum

 

 

Speckled Trout

  

 

 

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Harbor of Refuge, Lewes DE

St. Jerome’s Creek MD

Lewes DE

St. Jeromes Creek, MD

Point Lookout Fishing Pier, MD

Workboat, St. Jeromes Creek MD

Barn, Scotland MD

Farm Equipment, Dameron MD

Tobacco Barn, Dameron MD

Moonrise, Gordon’s Pond DE

World War II Submarine Towers, Gordon’s Pond DE

Duck Pond, Greenbury Point MD

Whitetail Deer, Greenbury Point MD

Goose Hunting, Potomac River MD

Atlantic Sturgeon, Chalk Point Aquaculture Lab MD

Chalk Point Power Plant, Aquasco MD

Morgantown Generating Station, Newburg MD

Indian River Inlet, DE

Dewey Beach, DE

Windsurfing, St. Mary’s College of Maryland