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Anhinga's are one of my favorite birds. Their behavior always entertains. From the way they fish, feed their young, land and greet their mate when arriving at the nest. Here's one taken under good light bringing some nesting material home from a nearby tree.
One of the holy grails for me in Costa Rica was to see Scarlet macaws (Ara macao) in the wild. These beautiful birds mate for life and are almost always seen in pairs. Here a pair are nesting in a tree cavity; if you look closely you can see the female at the bottom of the photo. Osa Peninsula.
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worth clicking on to see the spiderweb Mrs Bushtit is using to construct her nest!
My daughters and I went down along Middle River to visit a little with my sister. Though it was raining when we went to go down, the forecast was for it not too last long.
So took along the new Sony hoping the rain would end and then there might be some seagulls or ducks about to try this new camera and lens with some birds in flight.
Well ... glad that I did. Though the lighting was poor with no sun and clouds filling the sky, behold the eagles that nest down in Wilson Point were gathering some nesting materials. This one came about close enough to start taking some photos, about 1/4 filling the frame.
This is about a 2/3 cropped image (reduced 1/3) from the original, still providing 4,000 pixels in the vertical ... hence this is still more image than I would have had with no cropping of the old 7DM2. Amazing to think about.
The results were not bad here giving the poor light and my first time handling this camera and lens in BIF mode.
View large and zoom in several times ... you can still do that even with this being cropped already to about 2/3 of the original.
Sitting on her nest, a Pacific Loon waits patiently for her eggs to hatch. The loons are one of the last migratory birds to arrive in the Arctic and the one of the last to leave. By the time their chicks hatch and fledged, ice will be formed on the ponds. They have a beautiful buff grey head with black body and stripes. They also have a pearl necklace around the base of their neck.
A family of Giraffe walking along the plains of the Maasai Mara.
This image is barely processed, it really does get like this in the Mara. Especially as there is a storm coming in.
Getting ready to go back to Kenya next week, so all the packing and planning of what I'm looking for in shots is going into play. Never really know what you'll get until you get there, but I always make a mental picture of what I'm looking to create before I go out. Sometimes it works, sometimes it takes years to achieve, but I always seem to get there in the end.
This was a fluke image, but it's one I had in my head for quite a while
Larry and I dropped down to Wildwood to open up the house this weekend.
YAY! I'm back!
Of course I had to stop and check things out with Abby and John.
I was happy to see them both back at the nesting site.
Abby was busy bringing some new nesting material in this shot.
Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) Adult Male
Emigrant Lake - Jackson County - Oregon - USA
Habitat : Open Woodlands
Food : Insects
Nesting : Cavity
Behavior : Flycatching
Conservation : Low Concern
"In open parklands of the American West, brilliant blue-and-rust Western Bluebirds sit on low perches and swoop lightly to the ground to catch insects. Deep blue, rusty, and white, males are considerably brighter than the gray-brown, blue-tinged females. This small thrush nests in holes in trees or nest boxes and often gathers in small flocks outside of the breeding season to feed on insects or berries, giving their quiet, chortling calls. You can help out Western Bluebirds by placing nest boxes in your yard or park... Western Bluebirds have a gentle look, but territory battles can get heated. Rival males may grab each other’s legs, tumble to the ground, and then pin their opponent on the ground, stand over him, and jab at him with his bill."
- Cornell University Lab of Ornithology
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I watched this female Bullock's Oriole as she pulled and pulled to get a single strand of hair for her nest. I like the way it curled up around her beak.
Although there’s a chick in the nest, the adults are still bringing nesting material. I would love to be able to ask them why but I imagine that it makes the nest more comfortable, covering a the bottom that may have been soiled or have bits of food drawing insects. It’s not easy to see what’s happening in the nest and I have yet to see the chick, or chicks if there’s more than one. Hopefully we’ll soon see a head or two pop up. (Red-shouldered Hawk – (Buteo lineatus) (Sony a1, 200-600 lens @ 312mm, f/6.3, 1/5000 second, ISO 640)
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