{"id":87879,"date":"2023-10-17T04:08:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T08:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=87879"},"modified":"2025-03-07T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:14:13","slug":"ile-crawling-with-crested-caracaras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2023\/10\/17\/ile-crawling-with-crested-caracaras\/","title":{"rendered":"ILE Crawling with Crested Caracaras!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Call<\/h3>\n

My very favorite David Pugsley image was the American Avocet for its graceful elegance, the soft light, and the low-perspective intimacy. <\/p>\n

Your Call?<\/h3>\n

Which of today’s two featured caracara image do you like best? Be so kind as to leave a comment and let us know why you made your choice. <\/p>\n

What’s Up?<\/h3>\n

Today is Tuesday 17 October 2023. DeSoto is so good that I will be leaving at 4:30am this morning for another busman’s holiday, driving back on Thursday afternoon. If you would like to join me on Tuesday afternoon — the weather looks perfect, or for Wednesday morning or afternoon for an In-the-Field session, shoot me an e-mail<\/a> or call or text me on my cell at at 863-221-2372. First-timer David Hawkins is joining me on Thursday morning. <\/p>\n

A pair of Crested Caracaras raised two handsome young in an. un-photographable nest in a tall cabbage palm in the North Field at Indian Lake Estates last spring. The four of them, all relatively tame, can be seen most mornings foraging in that same field. When I have a free morning with soft light and a wind with an easterly component, I will put out some road kill and try for some incoming flight. <\/p>\n

Fort DeSoto #3 Late Registration Discount Info<\/h3>\n

Shoot me an e-mail<\/a> if you would like late registration discount information for the third DeSoto Fall IPT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Clockwise from the upper left back around to center: Osprey gaining altitude after missed strike; school of mullet under attack from below; Wood Stork with Southern Whiting; Osprey with Menhaden; Wood Stork with small lobster; Royal Tern with large baitfish; Osprey with Menhaden; juvenile Osprey directly overhead “t-shot”; Osprey taking flight with freshly caught Mullet. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Sebastian Inlet In-the-Field Sessions<\/h3>\n

Join me for 3 hours of morning or afternoon In-the-Field Instruction at Sebastian Inlet for only $300.00\/session (or $550 for a full day with two sessions). The main target will be fishing Ospreys hunting for a variety of migrating saltwater fish that visit the inlet each fall. Back-up subjects include fishing gulls, terns, and Brown Pelicans, Wood Stork, a variety of herons and egrets, shorebirds in the afternoon, sunrise cloud-scapes, and the occasional sea turtle or manatee. <\/p>\n

October Dates: 21, 22, 24-29, 2023.
\nNovember Dates: 6-10, 2023.<\/p>\n

Please get in touch via e-mail<\/a> or call or text me on my cell at at 863-221-2372 to book one or more sessions. Get-well-soon to Jim Miller who had to cancel this weekend at Sebastian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This image was created on 15 October 2023 at Indian Lake Estates, FL. Working from the driver’s seat of my X5, I used the BLUBB<\/a>-supported Sony FE 600mm f\/4 GM OSS lens<\/a>, the Sony FE 2.0x Teleconverter<\/a>, and The One, the Sony Alpha 1 Mirrorless Digital Camera<\/a>). The exposure was determined via Zebra technology with ISO on the thumb dial. ISO 2500. 1\/1000 sec. at f\/8 (wide open) in Manual mode. When evaluated in RawDigger,<\/a> the raw file brightness was determined to be dead-solid perfect. AWB at 7:39:32am as the sun was breaking through the clouds. <\/p>\n

Tracking: Expand Spot\/AF-C with Bird-Eye\/Face Detection performed perfectly. Click on the image to enjoy a larger, sharper, high-res version.<\/p>\n

Image #1: Crested Caracara adult pausing while foraging for bugs\n