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Same blustery morning as my previous post, but this time a snowy egret stalking the shoreline for small fish.
Best viewed large to see how the wind is blowing its feathers.
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Little Egret, Egretta garzetta, Kleine zilverreiger
Nieuwe Driemanspolder, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
February 2026
Nikon Z8
Nikon Z600mm f/6.3 VR S
RKO_5019. A beautiful Common Kingfisher leaving the water with a lot of water droplets around it. Another unsuccessful dive. Kingfisher spam....
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Something not African? This little eastern screech owl was found Sunday high in a Botetourt County, Va., tree. c.2025 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1@mindspring.com
This family lives on a former airbase. They disappeared into the vegetation before I got close
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Herons keep lookout for fish crowd the trees in the Roanoke River at the Explore Park during the annual shad run. ©2024 | John M. Hudson
Sunset Crater Volano National Monument, Arizona
The moon and the Milky Way typically do not make happy photographic partners. But here I managed to capture both in a seconds-long window of opportunity before the moon rose higher and completely washed out the Center of Galaxy. It was a tricky shot, difficult to capture enough light from the stars yet avoid overexposure from the moon. And the light pollution from nearby Flagstaff made it even more challenging. I credit PhotoPills for enabling some solid planning for the photography here.
Sunset Crater is an incredible volcanic landscape, with vast fields of cinders and basalt lava flows that killed all life around for 900 square miles, one thousand years ago. There's ponderosa pine and juniper trees here, but not much life otherwise, and as a result it is stunningly quiet at night.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, made a sound that night.
This national monument is rated a Dark Sky Park. A 3-minute exposure long before moonrise did not bring out any details of the landscape. Only the silhouette of Sunset Crater against the stars provided any hint of the cinder cone's existence.
In near complete darkness, and in complete silence, the mystery of the moon and Milky Way made for a truly majestic experience.
Single long exposure processed in Capture One Pro.
Selected for FLICKR Explore February 22, 2025
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I caught this eastern bluebird in flight at the Guilford County Farm near Elon, N.C., on New Year's Day 2024. Great way to start the year! ©2024 | John M., Hudson
A lion couple walks Kenya's northern Mara in the early morning. ©2025 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com
2023 Photo 181/184 It's my wife's and my 39th anniversary today, but she's in rehab after recent major surgery and I'm at home with the dogs -- so my plan was to fire up the grill. On the menu tonight is a sirloin steak and some small-batch, rough-grind sausages from Texas. Yum! ©2023 John M. Hudson
RKO_4827. A beautiful female Northern Goshawk in a defensive pose!
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2023 Photo 296/69 Back on Sept. 30 I declared the last daylily of the year. Looks like I was wrong. Today we had another one in the little sheltered gardon at the bottom of the front steps. I swear this is the last daylily of the year. ©2023 | John M. Hudson
This flower is also known as Nigella. It was growing in my garden for the first time ever so of course I had to photograph it.
My first outing with my January Sales bargain Z8, which unexpectadly arrived the afternoon before I took this. I hadn't really set all the features up in the camera, but was excited to get out and use it.
I had already planned to go up to the Lakes with John Bleakley anyway, so the new camera was definitely going in the bag.
This was the first shot I took with it, so I had to post it. We had planned to go into the Keswick area and as we drove along the A66 we could see that Blencathra had some cloud around it and everywhere else looked pretty clear as the sky lightened. So I suggested we tried Tewet Tarn for sunrise.
As we arrived the conditions were very cold at -8, so we quickly donned our gear and headed up the fell side. I knew from previous visits where to go so we got to this spot before the sun appeared over the horizon.
So here is the view on this first foray out with the Z8.
Welcome September's full moon rising above Beaver Dam Farm in northern Botetourt County, Va. A Sunday, Sept. 7, image from Beaver Dam Sunflower Farm's 10th annual festival -- 700,000 blooms on 20 acres near Buchanan. ©2025 John M. Hudson | jmhudson1.com
2024 Photo 12/354 Boo Boo Blackington the cairn terrier has a new song, to the tune of "Here Comes Peter Cottontail":
"Here comes Boo Boo Blackington;
"She hunts forward and backington;
"Barkety, barkety, danger's on her way!"
©2024 | John M. Hudson
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A pair of Great Blue Herons put on a show back and forth across the road at the Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive.
2023 Photo 227/138 A marbled orbweaver (that's my ID until an arachnologist corrects me) has woven a web on our front deck. I hope it will last awhile. Handheld with a 105mm macro lens. ©2023 | John M. Hudson
/Upcoming Darling - Spring is here - Enjoy!
Nikon Z 8
Nikkor AF-S 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
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GBHs have been flocking to the Explore Park on the Roanoke River in western Virginia all month, feasting on the annual shad run. Every morning a few dozen herons fly in from their woodland rookeries, eat their fill, then leave. They're gone until the next morning, waiting for the river to recharge with fish. This shot weas made in crop mode, giving the lens effectively 900mm reach. ©2024 | John M. Hudson
2023 Photo 306/59 The piece of real estate the Boo Boo Blackington (real name Bushka) the cairn terrier is occupying is called Brunie Ridge, a place on the back of the sofa once favored by sweet little Brunhilde, another cairn terrier and John's little heart dog, now of blessed memory ©2023 | John M. Hudson
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