Mallard in Flight
A female Mallard in flight. Taken at Ridgefield NWR in Washington state, Aug. 26, 2015. Canon 7D Mark II, 1/2000, f4, ISO 640, 500mm, 9:08 […]
And the bittern flies
About 4 minutes before I photographed the Blue Heron with the outstretched neck (posted a few days ago), I had a quick opportunity to catch
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Blue Heron thinks he’s a crane
I made some flight shots today (Aug. 26, 2015), at the Ridgefield NWR, standing out on the refuge road on the south side of the
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Hunting for Breakfast
Tuesday, August 4, 2015, at the Ridgefield NWR, from sun up until about noon. I drove the 4-mile auto tour route a bunch of times
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Piercing the morning sky
While photographing Pelicans with my 1000mm set up on the morning of July 29, 2015, at Ridgefield, Wa., a Great Blue Heron flew by at
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Pelicans on Blue
July 29, 2015, was my best pelican day so far this year at the Ridgefield NWR. The two pictured American White Pelicans were part of
Sunrise Takeoff
July 29, 2015, at Ridgefield, before I discovered the 60 pelicans I talked about in a previous post, I came across this female Northern Harrier
Picked from the crowd
Back on July 20, 2015, I photographed a group of four American White Pelicans in flight, and I posted a shot of them here about
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“Hey, get off of my cloud!”
Here, one juvenile Barn Swallow is being fairly vocal towards another juvie as it comes in to land on the same perch. [The title of
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Hunting Harrier
They’ve mowed a lot of the tall grass at the Ridgefield NWR which attracts Northern Harriers in their hunt for rodents. This image shows a