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Just back from a planting morning at Cobbledicks Ford. Quite a few birds around but the high wind and rain showers made photographing them difficult. I made the most of the sunny breaks. We saw eight Kookaburras.
Laughing Kookaburra (immature)
Dacelo novaeguineae
March 11th, 2018
Launching Place, Victoria, Australia
Canon EOS 1D X Mark II
Canon EF 600mm f4L IS II USM lens
Canon 600EX II-RT flash
Check out this cutie! This little fella was one of our resident Kookaburra's offspring from last Spring. From an early age it was quite confiding & would often drop down & hang out with me while I was splitting logs to pick off the juicy worms, grubs & bugs that would pop out!
This is Laughing Whitefish Falls, just outside Munising, MI in the UP. It was one of the more secluded falls of the many I visited, but was more of the more unique ones as well. It was well worth the hike to get there! I loved this waterfall.
Side story: An old man was at the bottom taking pictures. I said, "Getting any good ones?" Frustrated, he barked, "No!" I noticed he was taking the photo from a terrible angle, with the sun glaring directly into the lens. I attempted to give him some pointers when he suggested I try and take a photo. "Did you get one?" He asked. "Yeah, look," I replied. Without looking at my camera screen, he gave a forlorn grunt and headed up the trail...
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From this morning at Wrightsville Beach. The first three are of a Least Tern. The last shot shows some of the harsh realities of Nature - A Laughing Gull flying away after capturing a chick (a Skimmer I believe). This happened as soon as I got here, just a little before the sun came up.
This waterfall is very long from top to bottom, and hard to photograph. Trying to include the whole thing in the frame just wasn't giving me an appealing image. I finally found this shot from the stairs leading to the bottom of the falls.
While photographing this young bride a bug flew into her mouth and the shot before this she was making faces and trying to spit the bug out…I said to her the picture of her spitting and sputtering was going to make a really good picture that she and her husband would really be proud of and she started laughing…I chose not to show the most embarrassing picture for her sake.
I was out at Fort Desoto Sunday morning and the sunrise itself wasn't great but provided some pretty cool silhouettes. Can you ID the birds by the silhouette? Answers below.
PS Mosquitoes were the worst I've seen them between the parking lot and beach.
1)Marbled Godwit
2)Roseate Spoonbill
3)Laughing Gull
breeding plumage - a handsome gull - looks like it has eyeliner on - and I don't know why I'm always surprised you can see right through beaks
The laughing gull is a medium-sized gull of North and South America, named for its laugh-like call. It breeds in large colonies mostly along the Atlantic coast of North America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. This one was found on Osborn Island, New Jersey, wearing its Winter plumage.
Being harassed by a White-throated Honeyeater which didn't like it being there. It barely acknowledged the honeyeater but seemed more worried about me.
The laughing kookaburra is a bird in the kingfisher subfamily Halcyoninae. It is a large robust kingfisher with a whitish head and a brown eye-stripe. The upperparts are mostly dark brown but there is a mottled light-blue patch on the wing coverts. The underparts are cream-white and the tail is barred with rufous and black. The plumage of the male and female birds is similar.
Wikipedia