Lori A Cash Wildlife & Nature Conservation Photography, LLC

04/13/2026

Call for volunteers for my local folks the Hampton Roads Area to help plant and mulch a new monarch waystation/pollinator garden at the start of the Matteson Trail off Butler Farm Road in Hampton.

We will be out planting and mulching on April 17 & 18 from 9am-noon.

If you find you have a little time and want to help out and plant a few flowers for this pollinator garden created by my Butterfly Habitat Oasis Project, come on out! We'd love to have you join us.

Also, on the actual Earth Day, April 22nd, at 3:30pm a few of us will be out to put the final touches on this garden. You are welcome to come on out and help us on Earth Day! 🦋🌷🌈

Have questions? Email me at [email protected]

04/08/2026

Couple of weeks ago, we made a weekend trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I captured this image of a black bear sitting down in the grass. The bear was taking a break from eating the spring grasses.

Black bears like the early spring grasses especially in meadows. The grasses help the bear's digestive system if the bear had been hibernating during the winter.

03/18/2026

Looking forward to spring and having my bluebirds back in my yard at my feeders. I love to photograph bluebirds. When this image was taken back in 2023 in my backyard, I was working on getting images of the bluebirds in flight that year. This was probably the best image I got that year of a bluebird in flight. And of course, this image is cropped.

02/24/2026

We need your voice!

HB 597 could be heard by the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee as early as Tuesday, February 24.

This bill would create the Wildlife Corridor Grant Fund, championed by Delegate Shelly Simonds, to support wildlife crossings and corridor projects across Virginia.

If your Senator serves on the Finance & Appropriations Committee, your outreach is especially critical right now >> https://sfac.virginia.gov/committee.shtml

Find your Legislators >> https://whosmy.virginiageneralassembly.gov/

Use our Sample Letter >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/103e5MuuBIuQtCdMvtNoZiItthxNzgCqhm5qqf8pSWRo/edit?tab=t.0

Please call or email your Senator today and ask them to support HB 597.

02/04/2026

Ruby-throated hummingbirds beats their wings around 50 times a second when hovering. The family of hummingbirds are the birds capable of hovering for a lengthy span of time. Also, the ruby-throated hummingbirds are the sole breeding hummingbird in eastern North American. They generally spend their winters in Central America.

Photographed in my backyard habitat oasis this past summer.

01/19/2026

Black-necked stilt lying down and calling on concrete wall of a old salt pond in Grand Turk.

01/11/2026

I love photographing birds in flight. While at the black skimmer colony, I had lots of opportunities for flight shots.
Always love when the bird is calling or squawking when flying. This skimmer was starting to descend down to the colony of skimmers below giving it a little awkward position.

01/06/2026

This black skimmer was photographed over this past summer when a colony of black skimmers tried to create a nesting site on a very human populated section of beach. Unfortunately, the skimmers abandoned that area of the beach way to soon for their eggs to hatch. The skimmers left their eggs that had already been laid behind on that section of beach. This colony of skimmers left the area and moved on. Hopefully, finding a quieter and better place to breed for this past season.
This area of the nesting skimmers on the beach were roped off and had signs by the rope area saying not to interfere or approach the nesting birds. But the signs did not say to keep a certain distance from this roped off area. So the loud noise of people hanging out on the beach right next to ropes and playing loud music. Some people were setting up their beach canopy along side the roped off area. This was just so unfortunate that people were not respecting these birds.
This made me very sad that these people did not care about these seabirds that were trying to bring another generation of black skimmers into the world. This is why I spend my time advocating for birds, wildlife, butterflies and our environment. There needs to be more awareness about birds and especially about nesting birds on beaches.
I did spend a lot of time out there this past summer observing and taking photographs of these birds and saw much of this human disturbance. However, I did capture a lot of great pictures of these skimmers from a respectful distance. I am just now starting to process these images and will be sharing more images.
Although it is late in the day, I still wanted to share this image and story on this . Hoping to bring more awareness to people about beach nesting birds and being respectful in ways that do not disturb the nesting birds.

12/29/2025

This blog post was written by my guest blogger, Katy Marchello who is a clean water advocate. In this post, Katy brings awareness to the toxic chemicals in Virginia waterways.

Explore the challenges facing Virginia waterways, focusing on PFAS pollution and the efforts to protect clean water.

12/13/2025

While out on Caddo Lake in Texas photographing during a morning session, we discovered a pileated woodpecker. It spent a few minutes drumming on the section of the tree. I was able to capture few great images.

By the way, the pileated woodpecker is a new species for me. I never wood have guessed I would have seen or photographed a pileated woodpecker at Caddo Lake.

12/06/2025

It has been a busy week for me, and I did not get as many Caddo Lake images processed as I hoped, But I did want to share this one taken on the first evening at Caddo Lake State Park in Texas with my Sony a 7CR and Tamron 28-300mm f/4-7.1.