Ecuador

Multiflash setup

Panti Forest Reserve, Johor, Malaysia

Friston Forest, Sussex

Seem to be having a good year, as finding plenty!

Upton Magna - Shropshire

Johor

I had volunteer chicken tending duties at Wright-Locke Farm today, the early evening shift. I gave them fresh water and gathered their eggs from the laying boxes.

This hen is a buff Orpington, and likes to model for me.

A stack of 16 handheld images. Stacked in Photoshop. Processed in Lightroom

Intervales State Park, Brazil-1403

At home

RSPB Frampton Marsh.

This sleek and elegant sandpiper is also a long-distance traveler, covering about 26,000km each year. This is the second time in two years I managed to see one. Gull Island, Presqu'ile Provincial Park, Brighton, Ontario.

A Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis) incubates a clutch of eggs on the tundra landscape at Creswell Bay on Somerset Island, Nunavut, Canada.

June, 1995.

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Buff-tailed Coronet -_MG_0275

This is a lifer bird for me. They breed in the Arctic and funnel down through central North America on their way to winter in Argentina and Uruquay.

Miquelon Provincial Park. Camrose County, Alberta.

At home

Buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) collecting nectar from true lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) flower.

Trzmiel ziemny (Bombus terrestris) zbierający nektar z kwiatu lawendy wąskolistnej (Lavandula angustifolia).

Cute little birdie :-)

Out of Ecuador

Canon 7D2 Sigma 105mm f2.8 Macro + 1.4x tc

Buff-tailed Coronet, Boissonneaua flavescens

At home

I'm way behind on processing so many of my photos. When I have the time, I look through my shots and choose one that speaks to me in some way. Usually, it's an action shot, but this one I chose for it's colors.

Buff-throated Saltator

Saltator maximus

Member of Nature’s Spirit

Good Stewards of Nature

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I spent quite a lot of time watching on the day I went to see the recent Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis) at Boulmer.

It put on quite a show and I was sat in the right place at the right time when it did this.

The Buff-tailed Coronet (Boissonneaua flavescens) glimmered like a living jewel in the soft dawn glow at La Minga Ecolodge, Dapa, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. She landed on a slender moss-covered branch where mist curled through emerald ferns, her coppery throat catching stray light as if highlighted by nature’s own spotlight. Framing her slightly off-center allowed the surrounding foliage to guide the eye toward her delicate form, while the muted tones of the cloud forest lent a serene, almost otherworldly atmosphere.

Capturing such fleeting grace demanded both patience and precise technical choices. In the low-light understorey, a shutter speed of 1/125 second froze the slightest head tilt without sacrificing sharpness, and choosing an aperture around f/6.7 crafted a shallow depth of field that isolates the bird from the softly blurred background. Raising ISO to 800 preserved rich shadow detail and subtle color transitions without introducing unwanted noise. These settings, paired with a thoughtful telephoto reach, ensured that every feather bar and curve of her bill registered with clarity, letting the story of this cloud-forest sentinel unfold naturally through the frame.

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Lyme Regis Dorset

Buff-tailed bumblebee

Redflag 16-2

Tandayapa Valley, Pichincha Province, Ecuador

Acanthiza reguloides

watched this huge buff walk into a good 4 foot snow drift then bash its way out. I know first hand the approximate depth as I dragged a tripod into it and not realizing how deep it was, ended up nearly stuck. drove back to the cabin with snow in my boots, up my pant leg, and somehow down my pants.

Bombus terrestris

Colombia

The buff-rumped warbler is a New World warbler that is resident from Honduras south to northwestern Peru and disjunctly in the western Amazon. It is found in forests at up to 1500 m altitude, always near water.

This photo of Buff-throated Saltator shows the small buffy patch at the bottom of the throat that gives the species its common name. This bird was seen at Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge on the renowned Manu Road, Peru. (Saltators have heavy bills and long tails, and were at one time considered members of the Finches family but are now placed in the Tanagers family.)

Buff-banded Rail emerging from the shadows at Lake Curalo in Eden.

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Louisiana based US AFRC 93rdBS/2ndBW's Boeing B-52H Stratofortress 61-0029 catches the light as she turns to land back at Fairford during RIAT 2023

Unfortunately, having landed, while back-tracking down the runway to park and demonstrating the BUFF's unique ability to crab sideways into wind - she made quite an impact:

Check out this YouTube vid from 3m:58secs.......ouch

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH9X1ymHXjw

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Bellavista Cloud Forest

Finally made my way to Castellow Hammock to see this little hummer that has been there for the last two years. This bird is mostly seen in south Texas. I really need to go back for a better picture. Not fond of driving south.

Thanks so much for the visit!