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Category Archives: Bird Photography
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 […]
A Kentucky Visitor
Today’s post features an image I captured a few years ago, but never published! While hiking Dorsett Hill Prairie (Cass County, MO), I found this nice-looking Kentucky Warbler as it checked the trees at the edge of the prairie, for insects: Thanks to my wonderful, birding friends, Tom and Lindsay, for help in identifying this […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]