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A surprise and ominous visitor to the little pond, this sharp-shinned hawk's (Accipiter striatus) (I think... I still don't have a positive ID) fly-bys and perching in shaded and secluded cover beside the pond drove all smaller birds to silence and into hiding for a couple of days while he was around.
Robins were last to vacate the pond, after first shouting raucously to all that they were unhappy about something.
While I was disappointed that all the songbirds disappeared, it was fascinating to see this mighty little raptor.
This was an experiment to see how altering the settings on the camera affected the sharpness of the bee.
Blending in is not an option for a lot of male birds, like this Red-winged Blackbird. The flashier ones make the best mates because they are better at drawing the attention of enemies away from the much drabber female and chicks. Talk about taking one for the team!
Happy Polaroid Week!
Day 1: Photo 1
This is an outtake from my last 12:12 Men Project shoot with Miao Miao.
Photographed at my home while snowing. More snow forecast for this afternoon and tonight. Snow results in large number of birds at my feeders. This bird or perhaps several Sharp-shinned Hawks are frequent visitors to my home. IMG_9052
Green Iguana ~ Grand Cayman ~ British West Indies
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 100, f/8.0, 270mm, 1/400s
Photographed in my back yard. I was ready for him. I expected him because I have seen him several times recently and Saturday he landed on my birdbath. He arrived a little latter Sunday morning but may have been confused about the time because we went from daylight saving time to pacific standard time. I say this as if the bird knows the time. Maybe he slept in because it was snowing most of the night and early morning. He tried for a quail, junco, and sparrow breakfast but as far as I know he failed. I enjoyed watching him for about 15 minutes while he sat from 15-30 feet from me between trying to catch a sparrow that was in a shrub next to him. He flew around the shrub and even jumped at it 4 or 5 times which was fun to watch. IMG_6342
Accipiter striatus
This morning I woke up early and though I had planned on sleeping in the cool weather outside motivated me to make a run out to Smith Point to see if any hawks were moving. Smith Point is a peninsula that juts out between Galveston and Trinity Bays. The thing that makes it interesting (at least when it comes to birds) this time of year is that, much like Cape May, NJ, it acts as a funnel that concentrates birds that are migrating south. As I headed to Smith Point the weather was looking pretty dreary and I had the strong feeling that I was making a mistake going but I decided to press on and take my chances on the weather. When I arrived I was pleased that it was not raining and there were some raptors moving. Most of the birds I saw were Sharp-shinned Hawks like this one and I was delighted to see a couple come close in the early morning light.
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At the end of the same dive with the flame lobster (previous post), we stopped in the shallows to search for grass squid.
Expectations were low. These squid are tiny - think the size of your pinky fingernail. They are floating in a soup of sargassum bits and pieces, so they are well camouflaged. And to top it all off, we are in shallow water (2-3m) with waves rolling through to slosh this slurry of stuff back and forth. Placing them in the viewfinder is hard but even if you can do that, you still need to get the camera's autofocus to lock on to the right thing. I have plenty of blurry pics and a bunch of sharp pics of seaweed fragments. But all you need is one to work!
Note, this was shot with ambient light (because we were so shallow). Without strobes, the shutter speed could be raised above 1/250th, which was definitely helpful.
Cold, windy, almost pitch dark...didn't get out of this one unscratched. This is a few exposures around 15 seconds. I like how the aura of the highway reflected in the clouds. Haven't messed with night shots too much...that's the Sidney Lanier bridge in the distance...one of my most frequently photographed objects, as some of you know. Enjoy your weekend.
St. Simons Island, Ga, USA
I heard this hunter take the bird in the sky as i was leaving work...pulled out of my lot, and seen this in the neighboring businesses yard
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Long Island, New York
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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Captured up close, I loved the sharp focus of this woman looking down the street and was so pleased to get some sharp focus of my own for the image.
This is the same woman I captured 'Turning Around' here flic.kr/p/MHyk6A. She had such a strikingly beautiful profile but I was so pleased to, unusually for me, click the shutter again when she turned around. Enjoy!
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