Introduction:

Hello! Thank you for taking the time to visit my Commons page. My name is Chuck, and my primary contribution to wikipedia / wikimedia is through wildlife photography.

I post photos at FocusOnWildide.ME and Facebook.Com/FocusOnWildlife

I post videos at these: Facebook and YouTube

Early Life / Career:

I was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised on Staten Island for the first 8 years of my life. Growing up on Staten Island has forever ruined products labelled "Outdoor Fresh Scent" for me. (If you know, you know. If you don't, then visit this link.)

I've lived up and down the East Coast of the US for half a century, but my family is moving / moved to Skopje, North Macedonia in August of 2026.

Photography and Video Subjects:

I primarily photograph wildlife, but I also enjoy landscapes and cityscapes, but after the move, I hope to try some astrophotography too.

Featured Pictures

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  A Killdeer at Heislerville WMA, NJ
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  A Social Flycatcher perched after feeding its young.
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  A Drake Surf Scoter in the Barnegat Inlet.

Quality Images

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  A Golden-Fronted Woodpeck in its nest cavity.
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  A juvenile Northern Jacana foraging.
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  Atlantic Brant flying along the jetty at Barnegat Lighthouse State Park, NJ.
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  A head-on view of a drake Wood Duck.
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  The more traditional profile photo of a Wood Duck.
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  A Plain Chachalaca along the side of a road in Tulum, Mexico.
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  The Chipmunk that does Glenn Quagmire impressions.
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  A Dunlin foraging at the East Point Lighthouse on the Delaware Bay.
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  A Yellow-Crowned Night Heron perches atop a cedar in Cape May County, NJ.

Other Wildlife Contributions

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  Female Black-Throated Blue Warbler.
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  Mallard Drake in the Snow.
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  Snow Bunting.
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  Common Tern chick.
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  Common Tern with Sand Lance.
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  A Mink in Portland, ME.
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  A Yellow-Rumped Warbler.
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  Portrait of a Tree Swallow at John Heinz NWR
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  A fledgling Northern Mockingbird at Mathias Baldwin Park, Philadelphia.
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  A Rufa Red Knot in the surf of the Delaware Bay in Cumberland County, NJ.
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  A Black-Crowned Night-Heron in a Cedar tree in Cape May County, NJ.
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  A Least Sandpiper foraging in a mudflat at Heislerville WMA in Cumberland County, NJ.
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  A Hen Harlequin Duck sits on the rocks at Barnegat Inlet.
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  A Great Egret in breeding plumage.
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  An Osprey with an American Gizzard Shad.
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  A Seaside Sparrow calls from Jake's Landing Road in Cape May County, NJ.
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  An American Oystercatcher foraging in Atlantic City, NJ.
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  A Semipalmated Sandpiper in a mudflat at Heislerville WMA in Cumberland County, NJ.
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  A very large Snapping Turtle crossing the path at the John Heinz NWR in Philadelphia, PA.
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  A drake bufflehead at Long Beach Island. (You really should visit in the winter.)
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  A Male Red-Winged Blackbird
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  A nonbreeding adult Ring-billed Gull.
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  A Lineated Woodpecker foraging for insects on a Palm Tree in Akumal, MX.
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  A Gray Fox in Tulum, MX.
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  A Great Kiskadee near the PGA Riviera Maya.
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  An Eastern Kingbird at the John Heinz NWR.

Other Contributions

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  The Saco River in Saco, ME.
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  The Parade Gorund at the former Fort McKinley on Great Diamond Island, ME.
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  Boston Skyline Panorama
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  Mt. Washington as seen from Portland, ME.
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  The former USS Boulder (LST-1190) and three Charleston Class Amphibious Cargo Ships, the Charleston, Mobile and El Paso (LKA-113, LKA-115, and LKA-117) in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
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  4th of July fireworks over the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Drone / Aerial Images

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  HDR image of the SS United States taken with a drone.
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  The USS Shreveport being towed down the Delaware River as she heads for scrapping.
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  The Commodore Barry Bridge as seen from Chester, PA facing Logan Twp, NJ.

Video

• Nesting Yellow-Crowned Night Herons with nestlings.
• Time Lapse of sunset over Center City, Philadelphia.