{"id":93450,"date":"2025-03-12T08:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/?p=93450"},"modified":"2025-04-08T05:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:48:18","slug":"bild-expo-by-bh-and-a-mossy-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2025\/03\/12\/bild-expo-by-bh-and-a-mossy-first\/","title":{"rendered":"BILD EXPO by B&H. And a Mossy First"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n

BILD EXPO Presented by B&H<\/h3>\n

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In the Last Blog Post <\/h3>\n

In the last blog post, there were so many excellent images that rating them was extremely challenging (he said modestly). Here are mine with my favorite first and so on: 12 (nobody else chose that one), 6, 2, 3, and the very popular 9. <\/p>\n

What’s Up?<\/h3>\n

Photography in Central Florida has continued to be fantastic. Thanks to a tip from long-time friend Fred Vaughn, Anita and I tried a new location to photograph a single, distant Roseate Spoonbill nest. It was a different and very challenging situation. I was thrilled to get two images that I really liked, those out of more than 4,500 images. Stick Marsh has been great and we’ve done well at ILE as well. Tuesday morning dawned clear and sunny with a brisk NW wind, a death forecast for bird photography. We headed down to the lake expecting to be back home in ten minutes. Surprise. There were several flocks of Cattle Egrets feeding in various locations. We found a group feeding near a large patch of purple flowers and worked those for an hour. After that, we found a killer backlit situation with the same subjects. We did not get back to my house until nearly 10:00am!<\/p>\n

Today is Wednesday 12 March 2025. It is clear and still and we are headed back to Lakeland for another American White Pelican fix. Whatever you plan on doing, I hope that you too opt to have a wonderful day. Do remember that happiness is a choice — Byron Katie, The Work.Com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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This image was created by Anita North on 10 March 2025 down by the lake near my home at Indian Lake Estates, FL. Standing near the nest tree, I used the hand held Sony FE 300mm f\/2.8 GM OSS Lens (Sony E)<\/a> and The Latest Greatest Sony Flagship Body, the a1 II Mirrorless Camera<\/a>. ISO 2000: 1\/2500 sec. at f\/4 (wide open) in Manual mode. RawDigger<\/a> showed that the exposure was dead-solid perfect. AWB at 9:32:52am on a cloudy-bright morning.<\/p>\n

Tracking: Spot XS\/AF-C with Bird Eye\/Face Detection enabled performed perfectly.<\/p>\n

Be sure to click on the image to see a larger, inexplicably sharper high res version. <\/p>\n

Image #1: Osprey perched on natural nest tree
\nImage courtesy of and copyright 2025 Anita North\n