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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 […] Five Cheap, Small Group IPTs: Gatorland and DeSoto. I Go With One. Always. Why Cheap? Today, there is a proliferation of bird photography workshops , often by folks whose only qualification is owning a camera body. I am pretty well off financially but I would love to see folks join me, enjoy the best nature […] Stuff We were hoping that Saturday morning on the spoonbill boat would be as great as Friday morning had been. We actually did better in the pre-dawn with blurs but after a good start, the spoonbills disappointed. And the pelicans were not much better. We did very well with flight on both species of vultures […] Stuff We did well on the Wood Storks on Thursday afternoon. We had the best morning of the year with the Roseate Spoonbills on the first day of the second Spoonbill IPT. The afternoon looked bleak with strong east winds and bright sun, but at about 4:30pm the wind turned around to the west as […] Stuff We left at 5:36am on Thursday morning and made it to Gatorland just before 7am. We had some very good chances for the first 90 minutes. Once it got really sunny we concentrated on birds in flight. Jake Levin of Montreal joined us to hang out. As I type, we are on the way […] Stuff When I downloaded my images from Tuesday morning I learned that I forgot to change my high Kelvin WB back to AWB. While you can always change the WB during the RAW conversion shooting all morning at K7690 can be problematic as most of the images look over-saturated/over-exposed during the review and sharpness is […] Stuff We had a superb morning of flight photography on the spoonbill boat on Tuesday February 20, 2018. Again not a zillion spoonbills, but skies full of Brown Pelicans hovering over the mangroves, some with huge mouthfuls of nesting materials. Along with both species of vultures, hundreds of Fish Crows, some Great and Snowy Egrets, […] Stuff Four of us were having an excellent morning on the spoonbill boat when a new client, a very sweet man from DC, tripped on his tripod and wound up in two feet of saltwater with his D850 and a rented 200-500. He was a really good sport. After the camera dried out, it was […] |
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