Great Egret Chicks – how cute
Visiting The Rookery at Venice again there is this Great Egret nest on the edge of the “island” in full view. For the first time I saw Great Egret chicks – how startlingly strange they look with...
View ArticleWho Are These Guys?
I am at the TICO Warbird Airshow. I have finished the static shoot as there are now too many people milling around. So I am back at the car leisurely swapping wide angled lenses for telephoto lenses,...
View ArticleThis Morning at The Venice Rookery
I always rise early so that I can shoot in the sweet light of the morning. At The Rookery the sun rises behind you as you are lining up on the wildlife which is just perfect. Today was a GREAT day...
View ArticleFor Someone who has just started their bird photography – it can’t get any...
Recently, was it really only yesterday, I had my first encounter with a Pileated Woodpecker and that was fantastic. Today I was heading for The Celery Fields near Saratoga (well in the last ten days I...
View ArticleJuveniles ONLY – NO ADULTS !
I made a return visit to Pinecraft Park in Sarasota to show Louise the Barred Owls and the Pileated Woodpeckers. However, on this visit I could only shoot the juveniles. We did see an adult Barred...
View ArticleDramatic Cloudscape
I just love to watch dramatic skies – and there are many of those here in Florida. This one was taken during the “Sun ‘n Fun” Airshow. The weather wasn’t too kind and some displays were cancelled...
View ArticleHow do you feed your children?
Spending hours at The Venice Rookery on my new project, bird photography, I get the chance just to watch and observe different behaviours. One that started to get my attention was the different way...
View ArticleEven working on Saturday in my office isn’t too awful
A hard day in the office, on a Saturday, with Louise! Gear: Nikon D800, MB-D12, Nikkor 14mm-24mm f/2.8
View ArticleDrama in the Skies
In landscape photography nine times out of ten the skies really make the image. That is why most photographers hate bald skies (cloudless) because they are a boring sheet of blue. Recently when i...
View ArticleWho would have thought – An Owl that Lives Below Ground?
Yes indeed the Burrowing Owl digs its own burrow in which to lay and hatch its young! In Cape Coral, Florida you are told to look for vacant building lots to search for Burrowing Owls (Athene...
View ArticleBirding in the Tundra
I am on a Moose Peterson workshop in Churchill, Manitoba to photograph the nesting migrating birds. Why? Because most of the shorebirds display dramatically different plumage when mating and these...
View ArticleNature’s Sentry
The change in plumage of the shorebirds and the distance they migrate in order to mate is mind-blowing. Most of them gather here in Churchill in the very north of Manitoba, Canada which is sited on...
View ArticleA day in the Tundra Marsh
Yes, I am still here in Churchill, Manitoba. Although the workshop concluded on Sunday morning I am here putting my lessons into practice. One of the pre-requisites for the workshop was a pair of...
View ArticleMigrating Shorebirds fly to the Tundra
Yes a great deal of the shorebirds that we see during our summer vacations and all winter long fly thousands of miles to the tundra in order to mate and breed. Part of this process is the courtship...
View ArticleStalking the Jaegers
Week 1 in Churchill, Manitoba we had seen a pair of Parasitic Jaegers (Stercorarius parasiticus), on one of the areas of Tundra marsh from a distance, while driving by looking for suitable bird...
View ArticleThe Solitary Sandpiper
At first I easily mistook this bird for another Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa malanoleuca), as there head been several around. However, this bird was working the marsh for food by itself. A quick...
View ArticleAblutions in the Tundra Marshes
It is past 9:00 pm, there is no hint of sunset, but we are into the sweet light of the day, referred to by most as “golden hour”. I have been out since 6:00 am, just after sunrise, as there isn’t...
View ArticleA Way to Attract the Girls
The Short-billed Dowitcher (Linodromus griseus) has a way with the girls during breeding season. He flies thousands of miles north, to the Tundra and puts on his breeding plumage. The plumage is...
View ArticleFollow The Herd?
An image of a group of birds all heading in the same direction – hunting for sustenance in the Far North during their breeding season. But, can you spot the “odd man out”? I am not sure why, but I...
View ArticleWhat causes the Flush?
A group of Stilt Sandpipers at dusk in the Tundra Marshes of Churchill, Manitoba on the Hudson Bay. They are happily milling around, preening but not looking for food – it is the end of the day, time...
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