Fair Lady
A summer day at the Ridgefield NWR, August 4, 2016, where I was treated to a blast off of about 35 Great Egrets at one …
Ducky Portrait
A female Wood Duck out sunbathing on a log. Her mate was a few feet to the right, out of the picture. Ridgefield NWR, May …
Late Afternoon Stretch
Approaching sunset as this female Bufflehead stretches its wings after making several dives underwater for food. I observed that females can be as aggressive as …
Lady Ruddy
A portrait of a female Ruddy Duck on the water at the Ridgefield NWR, March 18, 2016. LARGEVIEW! Canon 5D Mark III, 1/2000, f4.5, ISO …
Immature Female Yellowthroat
My Aug. 11, 2015, trip to the Ridgefield NWR, netted me (recently posted) shots of an adult female Yellowthroat, a male fledgling Yellowthroat, a fledgling …
Immature Black-headed Grosbeak (female)
A few days ago I posted an immature male Black-headed Grosbeak. Here’s what I think is the sibling of the male, this one a female. …
Big-billed Beauty
One of the features I really like about the Canon 7D Mark II is its 1.6x crop factor when coupled with a 1000mm lens combo …
Bufflehead Beauty
The female Bufflehead displays her beauty in this shot taken at the Ridgefield NWR, Dec. 2, 2014. Canon 7D Mark II, 1/1600, f8, ISO 1600, …
A warbler of the late summer variety
Female (possibly immature) Common Yellowthroat, photographed at the Ridgefield NWR, Sep. 16, 2014. Canon 5D Mark III, 1/1250, f6.3, ISO 500, 500mm, 1:27 p.m.
Late-summer Common Yellowthroat
It’s probably just me but I tend to see many more male Common Yellowthroats in the spring and more females in late summer at the …