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The Great Blue Heron preparing to launch in yesterday's post.
Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Utah.
I had a few Northern Cardinal images but after visiting the ranches near McAllen, Texas, let’s just say my cup runneth over! I’m just beginning the culling after my first rough cut and like this one to share. There was a Green Jay photo bombing the image from behind, but I was able to send it to purgatory. (Male Northern Cardinal - Cardinalis cardinals) (Sony a9iii, 400mm lens @ f/2.8, 1/5000 second, ISO 800).
This was from back in 2011 and one of my most memorable experiences with a Snowy Owl.
There were several other images to this sequence but they overlapped and I couldn't stitch them into the sequence.
Hope everyone's enjoying this mild winter so far here in the Northeast.
Backlit by a late afternoon sun, a Double-crested Cormorant leaves a spray behind as it takes to the air on the Fox River, in Northern Illinois.
Quechee, VT
10-15-2019
Photographed from the covered bridge over the river right as the three balloons from Quechee Balloon Rides begin their ascent.
I was photographing these two pelicans when they decided to take off. This was one of them as he flys away.
Jasper rockets toward the Flippy Flopper for another awesome catch. "Rocket dog, burning up the yard with his two humans" (sung to the tune of Elton John's "Rocket Man")
This snipe was so enthusiastic with his stretching and flapping that he completely lifted out of the water.
WIlson's Snipe
Virginia Lake, St John's NL
Common or European Starling launches into history at 5:32 p.m. PST from Launch Pad Suet Feeder at our back forty in the Pacific Northwest.
No built-in holds, no delays, and no aborts. The crowd went wild!
Well, I went wild. Just sitting on the back deck playing with the new lens. Thanks for looking!
(looks okay cropped, too, but I wanted to go for the tiny effect ;)
Captured in an interesting flight configuration. Red-Tailed Hawk. Seen near Florence, AZ this morning.
I came across this huge grasshopper recently. Unfortunately, I only had my wide-angle lens with me ...
From the archives, this is a great white egret taking off with some nesting material in the Leonabelle Turner Birding center in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Great Egret, looking graceful even when preparing to lift off from a treetop. Kiwanis Lake Rookery, York, Pennsylvania
A Great Blue Heron taking off. With a 5 to 6 foot wingspan, this bird easily has a near vertical take off.
One of 24 species of nuthatch, the White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) lives in every state of the continental U.S. It is a gregarious bird, emboldened even further when it travels in groups of chickadees and titmice. But as far as nuthatches go, they tend to keep to one pair per 10 to 30 acres, and they will defend these territories vehemently. It is thought that this is one of the reasons that these birds do not migrate; there are so many that they'd have nowhere to go!