The Spectacular Green Violetear! I guess the first statement to make here would involve my passion for photographing Hummingbirds in Flight! About 7 years ago I started with my first long (ish) lens, the 70-300mm ED, gear drive. Right away, my passion was directed to raptors. After following and participating in several nature and wildlife […]
Shades of Blue (with birdsong)
Just a simple image of a Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) today. I photographed this Egret as it stalked prey along the shore of the Gulf of Mexico in Florida. This photo was taken around mid day, much later than I normally like to be out photographing because the light can get harsh. The reason why […]
Wooed by Gravity
Wooed by gravity, she closes her eyes and falls from heaven as the sun dazzles her wings. • Sparrow | Passer domesticus
Black-Chinned Hummingbirds
I finally mustered up some patience to snag some flight shots of hummingbirds. How’d that happen? They’re all Black-chinned guys and gals and they’re all pretty fancy. In other news…? Finally some some fun migrant warblers (a Blackburnian and Wilson’s) but it’s so slow here. A two day weekend would be great so I could […]
Cream-coloured Courser at Tarifa
One of the rarest waders to turn up in Europe was found by a teacher with a party of schoolchildren out on a field trip on Tarifa beach on the morning of the 12th of April 2012. The teacher knew that it was an unusual bird and phoned Fundación Migres, a local NGO that studies […]
GanzenSail
Afgelopen week ‘s avonds na het werk weer een keer de OVP in gegaan. Deze keer begonnen aan de Almeerse kant in de hoop een vos te vinden. Volgens mij was het goed weer om vossen te spotten. Het was me al een paar keer opgevallen dat het met wat minder weer ook minder vossen […]