Category: bird watching
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Small Birds of the Slough.
If it’s not smoky tomorrow I plan on riding my scooter the 1 mile to the Ranch gate hopefully getting some unique shots, hopefully a good one of the illusive female Red Tailed Hawk. Then I will start the cataloging.
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Experimenting With Black Backgrounds
By this picture I cannot tell what species it is and that is incredibly important in photography.
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The Canadians Have Returned for the 4th of July.
They are good images but I may scan through them and delete 150 of them, too many look alike. I enjoy editing, every one I edit is a learning experience; often I will edit bad photos just to see what I can do with it. It’s good practice.
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Ospreys.
The colors are off for it to be a Peregrine Falcon or Osprey, it appears more on the Kite side of the road; I’m just not sure at all. Those large eyes are a key feature of it’s appearance. I watched a video of a bird matching this one fighting a Bobcat, unfortunately the video taker did not ID the bird.a
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Hummingbirds; Tough Little Guys.
Blue is the color of the California Sky during the Summer, it’s not a bad color however it is viewed as the least desirable background for photographs. I don’t know how it affects contest entries; most of my backgrounds are blue.
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The Seagulls are absent but the Pictures aren’t.
I give a sigh of relief each time I see a bird successfully navigate and land on the post. It’s impressive to me when the SeaGull lands they strike this pose nearly every time. It may have more to do with balance and landing than anything else but it remains impressive.
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Two Broods of Mallards; Floods and Wild Fires/
Hopefully some of the new Mallards will return to our slough and make it their seasonal nesting grounds. The Canadians have done so as the the Great White Bellied Geese have; they have returned now for the last 5 years. This is a safe nesting area for them, the closest hunting is a few miles away.
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Flag Day June 14, 2022; Comparing my 20 year old Camera to a new one.
And today is Flag Day, for several years I did not fly the Flag. I am a 115% disabled service connected Vietnam Vet. I fought the Veterans Administration for 15 Years, the day I won my case (who says only fools defend themselves?) I put up the Flag and haven’t stopped flying it.
Follow the Fork in the Road 