https://www.willdemott.com/photography daily 1.0 2025-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1555809180997-7YY9XZN98WAHJS3HUCUL/DSC_2717.jpg Photography - Common Terns Taken on Great Gull Island on the Long Island Sound. My first time working with birds was in the summer of 2018, when I volunteered on Great Gull Island and helped Helen Hays & her team keep the Tern Colony healthy, which has been re-established since the mid-50s, thanks to Helen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1555809180997-7YY9XZN98WAHJS3HUCUL/DSC_2717.jpg Photography - Common Terns Taken on Great Gull Island on the Long Island Sound. My first time working with birds was in the summer of 2018, when I volunteered on Great Gull Island and helped Helen Hays & her team keep the Tern Colony healthy, which has been re-established since the mid-50s, thanks to Helen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1621905146644-TOK19684BUUP4II2CILE/DSC_4038.jpg Photography - Spotted Owl I have been grateful for the opportunity to work with Spotted Owls this summer, conducting call surveys and following up with historical pairs for the Institute of Bird Populations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1618073938807-19RXZ9SLG2FDTIIIQLGF/DSC_0989.jpg Photography - Saltmarsh Sparrow I volunteered with conducting fieldwork on Saltmarsh Sparrows and other saltmarsh species in the summer of 2019, helping Samantha Apgar with her graduate work assessing behavior of these specialists. Saltmarsh sparrows are at extreme risk of extinction due to rising sea levels drowning their nests during the breeding season, and are expected to go extinct within the next 40 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696617124800-9NCAMJC8VZEC37CAD1E5/image-asset.jpeg Photography - Stellars Jay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1560531042306-Q8BLNG69RDBNNZQQ0MEK/BADO.jpg Photography - Barred Owl Taken in Hammonasset State Park in Madison, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1560531065283-U9SRFR3OVG69SUS0DHI9/DSC_8038.jpg Photography - Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Taken on Ashlawn Farm in Lyme, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1618073964553-RLT8G64FZXJ8S5YUQJJ4/DSC_9027.jpg Photography - Eastern Bluebird Taken in Deep River, CT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696620141682-HMZF07YNPPK8KHGOJK71/DSC_7682-Enhanced.jpg Photography - Keel-billed Toucan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1618524995641-XCD5DJD582OC1M5UCE5Q/DSC_1123.jpg Photography - Golden-crowned Kinglet Taken in Hadlyme, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1618526074791-XL68FC9O7LFVCL7ISJUE/DSC_0293.jpg Photography - Grey Catbird Taken on Ashalwn Farm in Lyme, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696619196463-U2N2LYVN80X754QB29V2/DSC_7348-Enhanced.jpg Photography - Gartered Trogon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1618526425572-FZNQKJVWSZ9Y00ILNQDJ/DSC_1455.jpg Photography - Song Sparrow Taken on Ashlawn Farm in Lyme, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1555809193576-XPOX7SA3H02Q52L48V1C/DSC_2521.jpg Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1618526115383-WBHDYH832B65BLT6G7I2/DSC_9487.jpg Photography - Blue-grey Gnatcatcher Taken in Hadlyme, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696619484405-GETIA2SIFN8TGPQDB61S/DSC_6542-Enhanced.jpg Photography - Olive-backed Euphonia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696619648587-4HM6TIWXZW7BL9903VPQ/DSC_1451-Enhanced.jpg Photography - Red-winged Blackbird https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696619370026-R41XNRAX4A9IWAS4Y346/DSC_5427.jpg Photography - Brown Pelicans https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1618526093388-CUMOKXU5JKK1BW50MANN/DSC_6687.jpg Photography - Great Egret Taken on the Connecticut River in Old Lyme, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1618073942190-7GYUUTRLUBNZFGWPWLGM/DSC_7036.jpg Photography - Savannah Sparrow Taken on Ashlawn Farm in Lyme, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1618526091301-FOTAQ1J35D4AN4V513A0/DSC_6498.jpg Photography - Chipping Sparrow Taken on Ashlawn Farm in Lyme, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1618526109003-VVOOPGD0UZ7Z5422PP7S/DSC_9459.jpg Photography - Veery Taken in Hadlyme, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696618759129-JVWGQO7SATJF5NQNI48N/image-asset.jpeg Photography - Say's Phoebe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1618526097646-06OJ4IDKTEWN1TL5IG0X/DSC_8901.jpg Photography - Wood Duck Taken in Deep River, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1618526464566-Z426TCEGAZ94PKGIIOQH/DSC_2040.jpg Photography - Red-headed Woodpecker Taken in Woonsocket, South Dakota https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1618526103636-HKDEK84R7E4TBY7X9GS0/DSC_9423.jpg Photography - Northern Parula Taken in Hadlyme, CT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696619166115-HZ5P6WSPXST28EI16LOB/DSC_8046.jpg Photography - Blue-headed Vireo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696619193936-FFRTYUTCPE4IIBNCKV3S/DSC_3339-Enhanced.jpg Photography - Blue-grey Gnatcatcher https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696619630763-J77YXU8JCVJYQJ4GF8W3/DSC_3351.jpg Photography - Ruby-crowned Kinglet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696619220766-FDHN0JYOIHN1QY0YQXRU/Woodhouse+Scrub+Jay-Enhanced.jpg Photography - Woodhouse's Scrub Jay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1618526417972-DO0LM85I7XTN62YYC9D0/DSC_2521.jpg Photography - Common Tern Taken on Great Gull Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696619230377-YK110N58FWDSBS8SOQ27/DSC_5931-Enhanced.jpg Photography - Lesser Goldfinch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696619357753-TU6OYJ09GMGW8YRS8436/DSC_4190.jpg Photography - Spotted Owl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696620057796-66OY0QZNA0BN1KC1L0QH/DSC_2631.jpg Photography - Greater black-backed gull https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696619337080-99CLFKCK0DW3Z69PCNO5/DSC_3320-Enhanced.jpg Photography - Ruby-crowned Kinglet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696620150817-2SWBR38W9M4HHAIQUSS8/DSC_4643.jpg Photography - Spotted Owl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696620069579-NJ3D8M2NE7TUJT2NEL8D/DSC_3703.jpg Photography - White-throated sparrow https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696620073441-3SWKERNLL1F5SD9WYVSL/DSC_7238.jpg Photography - Palm Warbler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696620115835-TS99VS7P9YKPM18M6C8M/DSC_5719-Enhanced.jpg Photography - Great blue heron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696619486265-0HS5XZW055IGETZT4SMC/DSC_6515-Enhanced.jpg Photography - Downy Woodpecker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/1696620090906-BNFDY2IAAN47J2XI93WW/DSC_7906-Enhanced.jpg Photography - Eastern Bluebird https://www.willdemott.com/blog-wexley daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://www.willdemott.com/blog-wexley/2016/3/2/shirow-29wc2 monthly 0.5 2016-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56cddecb2b8ddeef8fbf9088/1457036534110-RNJEL52LXACHGV4IU8MV/70.jpg blog - 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Midori https://www.willdemott.com/blog-wexley/category/Photography monthly 0.5 https://www.willdemott.com/blog-wexley/category/White monthly 0.5 https://www.willdemott.com/blog-wexley/tag/manmade monthly 0.5 https://www.willdemott.com/blog-wexley/tag/green monthly 0.5 https://www.willdemott.com/blog-wexley/tag/white monthly 0.5 https://www.willdemott.com/blog-wexley/tag/nature monthly 0.5 https://www.willdemott.com/info daily 0.75 2025-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/78142592-e965-40c7-8204-80a64bc612c9/Resized_Resized_20240706_100159_1721948083643_1721948088043.JPEG Info - About Me I am currently a Masters Student at the University of Oklahoma studying large-scale migratory behavior of aerial insectivores. After attaining my bachelors degree at the University of Connecticut, I spent 4 years traveling the country as a field technician, learning the complex, diverse, and inspiring intricacies of the natural world. Throughout my travels, I have attempted to document the beauty of nature through photography. I hope to continue spending my days learning about the fundamental nature of ecology, and contribute to our understanding of nature and its wonder. https://www.willdemott.com/research daily 0.75 2025-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/4dd27bef-01ab-4991-9304-648cbaca56b0/ezgif.com-speed.gif Research - AERIAL INSECTIVORE ROOSTS “Fall is a season of drama in the tree swallows' yearly cycle. A single idea, or an urge, seems to grip every swallow in the land. The nesting season with its quarrels over, the swallows draw together with a common interest in preparation for their next step, the long migration they will take in companies of hundreds or thousands. In August and September we see them gathering in the great marshes by the sea, where they linger for many days in ever-increasing numbers, young and old…” - Arthur Cleveland Bent https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/e6d8dac2-c3ea-42ef-a38a-78c221efef22/IMG_5026.jpg Research - MAPS BANDING EFFORT “Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.” - Aldo Leopold https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/4f0f6c0f-0fbd-48b4-be91-01f5068d37c1/DSC_1451-Enhanced.jpg Research - FUTURE WORK “Life has unfathomable secrets. Human knowledge will be erased from the archives of the world before we possess the last word that the Gnat has to say to us.” - Maurice Maeterlinck https://www.willdemott.com/roost-networks daily 0.75 2025-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/dccd9ce5-c013-4dc5-9156-5c3c397bdd26/newplot.png Roost Networks - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/4dd27bef-01ab-4991-9304-648cbaca56b0/ezgif.com-speed.gif Roost Networks - Aerial Insectivore Roosts “Fall is a season of drama in the tree swallows' yearly cycle. A single idea, or an urge, seems to grip every swallow in the land. The nesting season with its quarrels over, the swallows draw together with a common interest in preparation for their next step, the long migration they will take in companies of hundreds or thousands. In August and September we see them gathering in the great marshes by the sea, where they linger for many days in ever-increasing numbers, young and old…” - Arthur Cleveland Bent https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/2a2c9ba9-8839-4458-b2fd-d6578f962caa/Network+Map+Graphic.jpg Roost Networks - Roost Networks “When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself.” - Francisco Varela https://www.willdemott.com/banding-climate-change daily 0.75 2025-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/e6d8dac2-c3ea-42ef-a38a-78c221efef22/IMG_5026.jpg Banding & Climate Change - Climate Change & banding efforts "Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble." - Roger Tory Peterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/4e83cc11-e687-49fb-bcdb-1c16ed60181a/PRECIP.jpg Banding & Climate Change https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/d92669dc-3122-4704-94e7-fb7c95f99bc8/WIND.jpg Banding & Climate Change https://www.willdemott.com/nasvhille-martins daily 0.75 2025-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/c596b2e9-5e82-414a-8228-2c36b3682fbb/PUMA_NASH_fig_3.gif Nasvhille Martins - Tracking Roost Size and Location with NEXRAD Due to the local radar station being extremely close to Nashville, we were able to detect local movements of the roost site from year to year https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/9274fee9-87bc-44b9-b424-c9d1fd4e5d16/Estimated+Population+Impact+per+Year.png Nasvhille Martins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/9e8250d1-59d6-4615-96fa-fc64f4536086/Cumulative+Nashville+Counts.png Nasvhille Martins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.willdemott.com/future-work daily 0.75 2025-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b3fd077f7939287a9c7a33f/4f0f6c0f-0fbd-48b4-be91-01f5068d37c1/DSC_1451-Enhanced.jpg Future Work - FUTURE WORK “Life has unfathomable secrets. Human knowledge will be erased from the archives of the world before we possess the last word that the gnat has to say to us.” - Maurice Maeterlinck