The Highs And Lows Of My Morning On Antelope Island
Yesterday morning there were extremes of both including a case of mentoring gone bad.
Category: Birds
Green-tailed Towhee As An Example Of Why I Prefer Fast Shutter Speeds
Overall I gain more than I lose when I use relatively fast shutter speeds for birds.
Black-necked Stilt (+ an interesting leveling/rotation technique)
Sometimes we have to be creative to come up with leveling cues when an image needs rotation.
Yellow Warbler – A Compositional Conundrum
Fledgling Red-tailed Hawk Practicing More Skills – Clumsily
Landing must be one of the more difficult skills very young raptors need to learn because they spend considerable time practicing it.
Prairie Falcon Faux Pas
This is a pose I seldom post on my blog or even like very much but somehow it works for me with this young Prairie Falcon.
Male Red-naped Sapsucker – An Interloper
Red-tailed Hawk Showing Off New Skills – Part 2
Fledgling Red-tailed Hawk Showing Off New Skills – Part 1
This quite young and still clumsy youngster almost seemed to enjoy showing off for me.
Western Kingbirds Putting A Poor Beetle Through Hell
Western Kingbird Delivering A Cricket To A Hungry Mouth
It isn’t easy to get two birds sharp at these focal lengths and when one of them is in flight the degree of difficulty increases exponentially.
Yellow Warbler Fledgling Being Fed By A Parent
This little guy didn’t know which direction his (or her) next meal was going to be coming from.
Why The Killdeer Doesn’t Perch
I remember when I finally realized that I’d never seen a Killdeer perched and eventually figured out why.
A Wet Yellow Warbler Fledgling
Photographing small songbirds flitting around in dense foliage is a different game than I usually play.
Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk Looking Fierce
For me this image epitomizes nature in the raw and it does it without blood, guts or gore.
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Green-tailed Towhee As An Example Of Why I Prefer Fast Shutter Speeds
Overall I gain more than I lose when I use relatively fast shutter speeds for birds.
Black-necked Stilt (+ an interesting leveling/rotation technique)
Sometimes we have to be creative to come up with leveling cues when an image needs rotation.
Yellow Warbler – A Compositional Conundrum
Fledgling Red-tailed Hawk Practicing More Skills – Clumsily
Landing must be one of the more difficult skills very young raptors need to learn because they spend considerable time practicing it.
Prairie Falcon Faux Pas
This is a pose I seldom post on my blog or even like very much but somehow it works for me with this young Prairie Falcon.
Male Red-naped Sapsucker – An Interloper
Red-tailed Hawk Showing Off New Skills – Part 2
Fledgling Red-tailed Hawk Showing Off New Skills – Part 1
This quite young and still clumsy youngster almost seemed to enjoy showing off for me.
Western Kingbirds Putting A Poor Beetle Through Hell
Western Kingbird Delivering A Cricket To A Hungry Mouth
It isn’t easy to get two birds sharp at these focal lengths and when one of them is in flight the degree of difficulty increases exponentially.
Yellow Warbler Fledgling Being Fed By A Parent
This little guy didn’t know which direction his (or her) next meal was going to be coming from.
Why The Killdeer Doesn’t Perch
I remember when I finally realized that I’d never seen a Killdeer perched and eventually figured out why.
A Wet Yellow Warbler Fledgling
Photographing small songbirds flitting around in dense foliage is a different game than I usually play.
Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk Looking Fierce
For me this image epitomizes nature in the raw and it does it without blood, guts or gore.