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A student pilot with Training Wing 1 lands his T-45C Goshawk at NAF El Centro after an early evening training flight.
I've not had much chance recently (well none at all) to slip into a favourite evening dress and dream of going out for a romantic supper or the theatre. Well a lady can dream......
Life bird. Female. Hartwick Pines State Park. Near Grayling Michigan.
5/16/2015.
A story of the chase (sorry it is long-winded, but it is as much for my future remembrance as anything else):
After achieving my primary goal for Michigan in getting my lifer K1rtland's warbler, and also getting Nashv1lle warbler on territory, I turned my attention the afternoon of the 16th to attempting to get my lifer Evening Grosbeak. My first stop in this quest was a stop not far from the area I was which was a private residence with recent regular reports of Evening Grosbeaks coming to their feeders in good numbers. The wonderful host(s) informed me that they last had these birds some 5 days prior, and they suspected the birds had left to go breed further north. Bummer. I next considered my plan B. However before making a good hour's drive north to Hartwick Pines State Park I called them. I was told they had the birds at the feeders, but having learned to question a little more closely I asked if the party had personal knowledge of this for this day. The party said they would transfer me to the visitor center where the feeders were. Now I was thinking I may be saving myself two hours of driving for naught. No one answered there but I left a message of inquiry, and decided to start an hour East to Tawas Point State Park where they were having a great day with migrants, rather than go north to uncertainty. Not 5 minutes later I got that somewhat unexpected call back with confirmation that the birds had been gorging themselves at the feeders all day. Direction changed and North I go. When I get there around 230 PM there are 5 or 6 Rose-breasted Grosbeaks coming to the feeders but no signs of Evening Grosbeaks. Then the very nice lady who runs the visitor center on weekends, and who called me back on the phone, refilled the feeders. Almost immediately, as if the dinner bell had rang, a sole female Evening Grosbeak came in to feed. Quickly she was off, and I waited and waited and waited. Then there comes a time when you have to make a deal with yourself. Mine went like this. If no Evening Grosbeaks (I really wanted to see a male too) come to the feeders by 5 PM I am calling it a day. It was about 15 minutes to 5PM, and I heard an unfamiliar call in the tall trees approaching the feeders. I spotted a female then a male Evening Grosbeak. They both came not to the feeders but to the water feature below to drink. In less than a minute they were off. An image of the male is below in comments.
It was a memorable day. Next an hour's drive back South to my hotel in West Branch, an early dinner, and an early to bed, to get up early on the 17th to go to Tawas Point State Park, and hope the 17th there would rival the reports of the 16th.
Looking out over Mounts Bay on a still and colourful spring evening.
Hi to the two flickr photographers who I met on the beach.
Thanks for looking everyone and thanks also for all the welcome comments on my previous posted image.
Tony
A sunset full of color in-fills Pewaukee Lake with beauty
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Some impression from my homeland on a evening in this extraordionary summer in Germany...
Hasselblad 500 C/M
Carl Zeiss C 4/40 Distagon
CFV-50c digital back
This female evening grosbeak is not quite striking as her male counterpart but she still cuts a fine figure on a chilly morning in rural New Brunswick.
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Taken the first day after the snow and ice melted last February.
Initially, I rejected this picture as it was rather dark, but.. I spotted it again, as I was going through my archives deleting a whole bunch of old pictures. So I brought it up in the camera raw program and adjusted the contrast and curves to see if I could bring it to life.