Canon EOS 7D with EF 400mm f/5.6L (ISO 250 | f5/6 | 1/500sec) Lightroom Adjustments: Vibrance+62 Sharpening:+25 |LuminanceNoise Reduction:+10 I acquired a Canon EOS 7D in September, and now that I’ve been using it extensively for a few months I thought it would be good to write reviews of its various features. This camera has […]
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Ponce Inlet, 12/20/2012
I went to Lighthouse Point Park at Ponce Inlet. I was hoping to find one of the Razorbills that had been seen there recently, but no luck for me today. It was still a pretty good morning, though. Lots of gulls and terns were there: Sandwich, Royal and Forster’s Terns, plus Ring-billed, Laughing, Herring, Great […]
Black Redstart female
Phoenicurus ochruros – Passeriformes – Muscicapidae She swallowed this larva as is, no frying like it’s done in Africa with the Mopani worms, served in some restaurants… I haven’t tried them, although my son has assured me the “delicacy” is a real treat! LOL! Hey, if you consider that “froggies” eat snails… Rouge-Queue femelle Avalée […]
Bolivia Trip Report Part III
Bolivia is an extremely diverse country when it comes to birds. In fact, some say that if it wasn’t land-locked it would have more species than any other country. Endemism is not especially high but there are some stunners to search for such as the Red-fronted Macaw and Black-hooded Sunbeam. The country lacks a field […]
Warm enough to fly in mid-December
The fly can be seen in the center of this photograph of the planter still decorated for autumn harvest in mid-December. The temperature peaked at 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4.4 C) on December 18th in Brighton, Michigan, but that didn’t deter a Common Green Bottle Fly from venturing out. Perhaps he had burrowed into the soilof […]
Wildlife in a Suburban Garden
It’s interesting to note that the common tit species in the UK and Europe have beaks of slightly different lengths and shapes. This enables them to co-exist in the same habitat and even in the same mixed species flocks. Coal Tits for example, although smaller than Blue Tits, have a longer and proportionally longer beak. […]
Suirirí pico corto (Southern Scrub-Flycatcher)
Siguiendo el orden de mis archivos fotográficos hoy le toca el turno de presentación al Suirirí pico corto; a este lo pudimos fotografiar durante nuestro viaje a la Provincia de Formosa el mes pasado. Es un pájaro muy parecido a los Fiofíos y no lo identifiqué hasta que llegué a mi casa y pude sentarme […]