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Stuff The shoulder is getting a little bit better each day but abduction of the left arm is greatly restricted and when I try, the pain is a pain 🙂 Especially at night, even when I am doing nothing. My replacement D5 arrived today. Two folks have signed up for Gatorland #2 so we will […] Stuff My shoulder is feeling a bit better each day but it continues to bother me after five or so hours of sound sleep. So I get up and ice it and then go back to sleep. I went into town to get my teeth cleaned in the morning and blew up lots of balloons […] Stuff I am finishing this blog post on Tuesday evening in hopes of sleeping late on Wednesday. The shoulder felt a lot better as Tuesday wore on. I got lots of work accomplished with travel plans for the lucky Falklands IPT (sold out for forever) group and will be doing the same for the long […] Stuff I fell asleep before 10:00pm and slept great till almost 4:00am. I woke with a dull pain in my injured left shoulder. I got some gel ice packs and tried hard to get back to sleep while reading Lee Child’s Trip Wire on my i-Phone 8+; I just love the Jack Reacher novels and […] Stuff Surprisingly, I slept for four hours right off the bat on Saturday night, but after that it was fitful rest at best as I could not find a comfortable position. When I woke on Sunday morning the damaged shoulder had tightened up considerably; I had very little range or motion with my left arm. […] Stuff I woke just before the alarm on Saturday morning at 2:50am. I showered, finished packing my bags, filled the tank, made a quick stop at Southwest curbside check-in, returned my rental car, took the shuttle to Terminal 4, enjoyed TSA pre-check, and was at the gate early. The nonstop flight to Orlando was fast […] Stuff It was another cloudy morning and photography was very slow a first. My last asp spot turned up some cooperative Pied-billed Grebes and American Avocets. I took a friend to the airport at 9am. After my last therapy session of this visit, I headed to Gilbert for my last duck-baiting session with only the […] Stuff On Thursday morning, armed with more info, we drove to Veteran’s Oasis Park to give that location another go. We were hoping to see and photograph jackrabbit, roadrunner, and Burrowing Owl. We saw all three but only got photos of the really tall rabbits with the big ears. But we did run into wildlife […] Stuff On Wednesday morning we drove to Veteran’s Oasis Park but did not know exactly where to go so we gave up and headed to Gilbert. It was deader than dead there so we scooted out 30+ miles to Boyce Arboretum State Park for alleged hummingbird photography. We did see some Anna’s and a male […] Stuff It was a rare morning in Phoenix: cloudy for the most part. I was sort of lost without the sun and blue skies. I wound up keeping ten images, more than half of those of a single male Anna’s Hummingbird. Then therapy and more Ring-necked Ducks in flight. Just another day in Phoenix. […] Stuff Things got a bit better on Monday morning at the Gilbert Water Ranch Riparian Preserve. I had some great chance with Black-necked Stilts in very early morning light with dark green water backgrounds. And I made a few nice frames of a displaying Snowy Egret. Then I tried another spot and did well with […] This Just In! If you would like to purchase a Nikon D850 tomorrow and have it shipped overnight for free and delivered on Wednesday (with a $50 discount to boot!), click here to order and enter the coupon code BIRDSASART at checkout (to get your $50 “first order” discount). In addition, you will qualify for […] Stuff Sunday morning at Gilbert was definitively not as productive as Saturday which had been poor at best. Again we met up with physiotherapist Amy Novotny and friend Bryan Holliday. They added lots of water to my favorite pond and thus, there were no birds there at all. The Streak Today makes two hundred […] Stuff Saturday morning was pretty poor at best. We met up with physiotherapist Amy Novotny and friends Bryan Holliday and Kim at Gilbert. They added lots of water to the best ponds … We did get some nice flight images of Ring-necked Ducks. We had a great dinner at Rodizio Grill, The Brazilian Steakhouse […] Stuff On Friday there was a clear sunrise with zero wind and perfect reflections everywhere. Just not many close birds. So I experimented at 1200mm with my 600 f/4/TC-E20/D850 combo on sleeping avocets. I tried focusing with Live View, turning AF off, setting the 5-second timer, and pressing the shutter button. Then it was a […] Stuff The early mornings in Phoenix are still quite chilly. Thus, there was a bit of fire in the mist on Thursday but few birds to silhouette … With the constantly changing water levels knowing where to be at the Gilbert Water Ranch Riparian Preserve is a challenge. The water level in the spot that […] Stuff It rained overnight from Tuesday into Wednesday and there were some big clouds to the east early on Wednesday. We did OK but not great. We found a few Cinnamon Teal, an adult male and two young males Hooded Mergansers, and lots of Green-winged Teal, but we were missing the gorgeous light and still […] Stuff My flight was a piece of cake and mercifully the seat belt sign was rarely on so I was able to get up and walk around frequently. My hotel is only five minutes from the Gilbert Water Ranch Riparian Preserve and I did well with both drake Northern Shoveler and American Avocets. There is […] Stuff Went down to the lake early on Monday morning and got lucky. Was at the gate for my flight to Phoenix by 3:45pm. Fly safe 🙂 I will try to get back to all the folks who e-mail re: my PHX trip in the next day or two. The Streak Today makes two […] Stuff The last morning of the second Spoonbill IPT began very slowly as there were few birds up and about despite a nice pre-dawn orange glow. We got in the water into good position but there were not many spoonbills or pelicans flying around. Then three pelicans, and adult and two young birds landed right […] |
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