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An up-close view of a shorebird (Marbled godwit) searching for food in the sand. It is always fun to watch how they go from spot to spot, dip their bill and search for worms, sandflies, crabs, etcs. The whole process is very fast, glad my camera plus lens could focus in such a close distance.
Hawkeye flipped lens
Neopan
Lith Moersch SE 5
Paper Dalco Dalbroma (it is made in The Netherlands, Soestduinen and it is from between 1960-1975)
We don't get a lot of ducks here. They are not rare by any means but we mosing see herons. So when I have the oppertiunity to photograph one of these guys I am happy to spend the time doing so. Granted there are a couple times a year for a day or two in the spring there will be a family of ducks all floating around. They don't stay long maybe just passing thourgh. So I like to think she is just looking for a place to take the young ones in the spring.
A beautiful white crocus photographed beside a tree at the Altoona Enabling Garden in Altoona, Iowa.
Developed with Darktable 3.6.0.
Just 60 metres below, everything was a total grey-out with the whole Murray River area blanketed in fog, so I went up to the Mannum lookout and just managed to find some sun over the top of the fog.
A male Vermilion Flycatcher doing what flycatchers are supposed to do. Sit on a branch and wait for an insect to fly by. They are so colorful and fun to watch.
If only Barn Owls came out in better light...or I had a faster lens!!! Back to my dodgy bird in flight shots!! At least a Fox sits still for a second!! 😁
6/28/2022 Great Egret on morning hunt
Nikon D5300 Sigma 100-400 mm F/5.0-6.3
290 mm f/8.0 1/200 ISO 320
♫♪ wrap your troubles in dreams ♫♪.
just remember that sunshine
always follows the rain
textura lenabem
This red-bellied woodpecker was looking for a snack in a dead tree.
From Cornell:
A Red-bellied Woodpecker can stick out its tongue nearly 2 inches past the end of its beak. The tip is barbed and the bird’s spit is sticky, making it easier to snatch prey from deep crevices. Males have longer, wider-tipped tongues than females, possibly allowing a breeding pair to forage in slightly different places on their territory and maximize their use of available food.
I photographed the thrasher, the scrub jay and the woodpecker within about 5 or so minutes of each other. Definitely a location to explore with a camera again.
Is it spring, or is it winter? Perhaps summer-ish feel? All i know is, the weather haven't decide yet. Feeling a cool wind in the air today but Iove the freshness and I can continue to hibernate under my scarf and slowly wake up to see the flowers coming to greet us.
In the desert, mud from flashfloods becomes a highway for the movements of a variety of living organisms. Small mammals and birds leave noticeable tracks across the tableaus of clay as they search for the beetles and worms and centipedes who find their way in and out of cracks searching for other creatures carried in from rain-scoured banks to sustain and or possibly inhabit and infect the locals.
I share this image to project to you our own human traverse across this planet; how the infinitesimal can bring us to its table in a flash; how our movements have made us vulnerable; how we must consider our own large and noisy footprints.