Coot Fight Yesterday Afternoon
One of these combatants could give any human prize fighter a lesson on how to land back-to-back haymakers.
Tag: american coot
American Coot With Multiple Foot Anomalies
Coots have strange feet anyway so when one or both of them has defects things can get a little weird.
Peregrine Falcon With Prey In Hoarfrost
Yellow-headed Blackbird Doing The Vertical Splits
A Speed Skating Coot
The huge, goofy-looking feet of coots aren’t made to run on anything, least of all incredibly slick ice.
American Coot Wing-flapping Series
It may be (only?) a coot but I really like the image quality of this eight photo series taken yesterday afternoon.
Lessons I Learned Photographing Fighting Coots
These photos of brawling coots are among the very first I ever took with my brand new 500mm lens over eleven years ago, on June 18, 2007.
A Lesser Scaup and More Coot Chases From Yesterday
Coot Chase
During a coot chase I can seldom see both birds in my photos. In this series I can. The following five images are presented in the order they were taken with no skips.
One Angry Coot
American Coots are among the most belligerent birds in North America and I love photographing their chases and fights.
American Coot – The Schoolyard Bully
The apparent intent of this thug was to intimidate and terrorize the other coot. It worked.
A Handsome Coot?
And I’ll be damned. I think I’d even call this coot handsome. Or at least stately and dignified and that doesn’t happen every day with this species.
A Peregrine Falcon And A Frozen Coot
Yesterday morning went from bust to boom at the very last minute possible and it was a Peregrine Falcon that saved my bacon.
The Little Things That Can Make Or Break Our Images
Bird photography is largely a game of chance, particularly in action shots or when our subjects are in flight.
