Some birding photos to share before the overwhelming number of Pixelmania shots I'll soon be posting! ; Had a nice long weekend and time to get out to the wetlands for some shots, so figured I'd share them with the birders here. ; These are with the DSLR:
First, the lovely little kestrel hawk - tiny little guy about the size of a dove, but with the hawk features and some beautiful colors:
A cooper's hawk who thought he was pretty sneaky - he was hiding just a few feet off the ground in heavy brush and shadow, about 5 feet from a bird feeder - just being really still and waiting for some birds to come by...he was giving me the stink-eye for blowing his position:
A red-winged blackbird female, hanging out on a thin reed:
The big, lanky great blue herons are nesting this time of year - which means the males have to go out and retrieve branches to bring back to the wife, who decides where in the nest the branches go - he does the labor, she does the decorating:
Really neat to see them stretch those big bodies as they come in for a landing:
The pair together on their nest:
Those eyes! ; The cormorants are putting on their nicest colors for mating season:
The NEX mirrorless got in a few shots too this weekend...
Only my 3rd ever sighting of a red-tailed hawk - and my first shot worth uploading as the others were 90% crops from 500-1000 feet away!:
The iridescent boat-tailed grackle catching a little sun and showing a little color on his otherwise-all-black feathers:
Cormorant flying in to its nest:
First, the lovely little kestrel hawk - tiny little guy about the size of a dove, but with the hawk features and some beautiful colors:
A cooper's hawk who thought he was pretty sneaky - he was hiding just a few feet off the ground in heavy brush and shadow, about 5 feet from a bird feeder - just being really still and waiting for some birds to come by...he was giving me the stink-eye for blowing his position:
A red-winged blackbird female, hanging out on a thin reed:
The big, lanky great blue herons are nesting this time of year - which means the males have to go out and retrieve branches to bring back to the wife, who decides where in the nest the branches go - he does the labor, she does the decorating:
Really neat to see them stretch those big bodies as they come in for a landing:
The pair together on their nest:
Those eyes! ; The cormorants are putting on their nicest colors for mating season:
The NEX mirrorless got in a few shots too this weekend...
Only my 3rd ever sighting of a red-tailed hawk - and my first shot worth uploading as the others were 90% crops from 500-1000 feet away!:
The iridescent boat-tailed grackle catching a little sun and showing a little color on his otherwise-all-black feathers:
Cormorant flying in to its nest:
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