Category Archives: Bird Photography
The One That Didn’t Get Away!
Today’s post features an image I captured a few years ago, near Port Aransas, Texas. Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body Canon 500mm IS lens + Canon 1.4x TC Bogen 3021 tripod and Wemberly gimbal head ISO 200 Aperture f/5.6 Shutter 1/160 sec.
That First Step Is a Doozy!
Today’s post feature some images I captured while enjoying coffee on my front patio last week. It was a cool, quiet, early morning on the front patio … that is, until something came falling through the leaves and the limbs of the big oak tree. Then a “thud”, followed by a baby Blue Jay shaking […]
Race Against Time
Today’s post features some images I captured this week from my front patio. Earlier in spring, I purchased a really nice hanging fuschia plant and located it just outside my front door. Within a few days, I noticed a lot of “debris” in the planter. Setting up a ladder, I went to remove the debris. […]
Missouri’s Northern Resident
Today’s post features a couple of photos of Ring-necked Pheasants (males) that were captured at Squaw Creek NWR in northwest Missouri, a few years ago. Squaw Creek NWR (now called Loess Bluffs NWR) is located near the northwest tip of Missouri, and is at the southern edge of the ring-necked pheasant range: Photographic Equipment Used: […]
One Week Old and Growing
Today’s post features a couple of phone camera images I captured yesterday at my church here in the Missouri Ozarks. Yesterday the five baby Eastern Bluebird babies turned one-week old! While photographing them, one of the “toddlers” thought I was mom, bringing some food to the box: Photographic Equipment Used: Google Pixel 3 phone camera
A Quintuplet Birthday!
Today’s post features an image I captured with my phone’s camera on Monday morning. I’ve been watching the bluebird box that I installed last year at my church in the Missouri Ozarks. Eggs were laid a little less than 2 weeks ago. Sensing that the eggs should be ready to hatch, I checked the box […]