Category Archives: Bird Photography

Breakfast is Now Served

Today’s post features an image I captured while visiting the Sherburne NWR, in Minnesota, a few years ago. While cruising around the refuge, I found this adult Common Loon as it fished and fed a young loon in one of the refuge pools: Canon 1D Mark 3 camera body + Canon 500mm, f/4 IS lens […]

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Live, in Technicolor

Today’s post features one of our most colorful ducks, the Wood Duck drake (male). This image was captured via kayak, in the waters of Amarugia Highlands Conservation Area, in west-central Missouri: Canon 1D Mark 3 camera body + Canon 100-400mm, f/4.5-f/5.6 IS lens + Canon 1.4x TC Handheld, with IS “On”, from my kayak ISO […]

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Early Migrant

Today’s post features a Double-crested Cormorant as it flies low over the water, and captured from my kayak. During spring and fall bird migrations, the cormorant is one of the most commonly seen birds: Canon 1D Mark 3 camera body + Canon 100-400mm, f/4.5-f/5.6 IS lens + Canon 1.4x TC Handheld, with IS “On”, from […]

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Day Trippin’ with a Swan Family

Today’s post features a Trumpeter Swan family that I captured in central Minnesota a few years ago. You can see that the parent swan at the rear of the chain is wearing a neck tag, which gives location info as to where it was caught and tagged. Canon 1D Mark 3 camera body + Canon […]

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Colorful Quacker

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Fishing the Muddy Mississippi

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