It’s been awhile since my last post to this blog. I have some issues with my foot and it makes it very difficult and painful to do much walking. I have learned that you have to walk to get the shots that I like to capture.
On my way home yesterday I saw this opportunity to capture a sunset. I like the way it turned out.
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Enjoy your day and be careful.
I apologize for not posting in some time. I have some medical issues that do not allow me to walk and that makes it hard to get quality shots when you have very limited mobility. Hopefully that will be corrected in the near future.
Funny thing about the images I have for you today. They are similar to what I might take in with a micro lens but in fact they were taken with my long lens / convertor at 1200 focal length.
I was looking for some birds that I could photograph from my car but they were not to be found. When one door closes another will open and I noticed a lot of activity in the flowers close by the car.
I spotted this wonderful monarch butterfly and even though I had some problems keeping him in focus I was basically happy with the results.
There was also quite a bit of activity from bees and other insects. As can be imagined they were much harder to keep in focus with the large lens.
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Enjoy your Labor Day weekend and be careful.
This may be a sad tail, I hope not. This Blue Heron was at the 16th Street Basin, one of my favorite places to visit. Well before they cut down all the trees and put in a solar farm it was, but now there are rarely any wild life there.
What makes this a sad story is if you look closely at the haron’s bill (click on the image to make it larger and more detailed) you will see a foreign object in his mouth that prevents him from closing his mouth.
I watched him for 20 minutes and he never once could close his mouth. I felt bad but didn’t know of anyway to help him.
There were also several double-crested Cormorant sunning them selves and making a lot of noise.
My wildlife images always seems to have at least one Canada Goose.
The above image was taken the next day. No way to tell if this is the same heron, but to make me feel better I’m going to assume that it is and that he was able to get the foreign object out of him mouth.
Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy your day and be careful.
I have driven past this old barn for many years and I could only see it from a distance. Last week I decided that I had the time and was in the area so I drove up the back roads to the location of the barn.
I couldn’t get to the other side of this barn but it was obviously in a bad shape. I stopped at a house near the barn to ask permission to photograph but the lady said that she just rented the house from the owner of the barn and didn’t think he would mind.
I could get to the other side of this barn and as you can see it is only a matter of time before it falls down as well. I’m thinking a strong wind storm would bring it down. However after saying that it has withstood many storms in its life time.
I couldn’t pass up photographing this old (use to be) windmill.
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I’ve been wanting to photograph a Blue Heron for some time now. I’ve seen several but haven’t been able to make an image.
So yesterday Jeanne and I went out for a drive. I always carry my camera with me so we ended up at the 16th street basin. This area has really changed over the years and there use to be lots of wildlife in and around the basin.
Then the city cut down all the wonderful trees down and put in a solar farm. For the most part the wildlife left. Occasionally you can find a good there but it’s been a long time since I found a heron.
So I was surprised and happy to find not only a heron but two of them. I was also surprised that I was able to photograph them before they got spooked and took off.Enjoy your day and be careful.
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I have been trying to find something worthy of some images but haven’t had much luck lately.
So a couple of weeks ago I purchased a 2.0 teleconverter for my long lens. I stopped down at the 16th Street Basin yesterday and was trying it out.
Found this goose in the water and he came out of the water and started walking toward me.
Well this is very unusual because they normally walk away from me. I was using my car as a blind and even though he was close he wasn’t this close. 🙂
No cropping on this image. It was taken at 1,100 mm.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
Had a fun lunch today with 7 friends from work. Some retired and some still working. Great time. On the way out of town I went by the “Duck Pond”, which now has a fair amount of water. I was surprised to see a group of pelicans floating around.
The were searching for food but I’m not sure if there are any fish in the pond. It hasn’t had much water this spring but maybe they had some luck.
This goose was just resting keeping a sharp look out on the pelicans. In years past I witnessed some dust ups between the pelicans and geese.
Nothing too exciting but I do enjoy photographing wildlife when the opportunity presents itself.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
I have a potpourri of images for today’s blog and in no certain order. I was at Mud Lake park last week and shot a variety of wildlife that was near the water’s edge. First Eagle I’ve seen up close this year. This was as close as I could get and as I took one more step he flew away.
A couple of Ring-billed gulls resting on a log.
The ever present Canada Goose strutting his stuff. He actually was taking a bath but nothing new for this species.
A Common Grackle was foraging for food in the mud. I just think they are a pretty bird.
Finally a bird that I don’t see very often a Killdeer. Thanks to my friend Andreas for helping me identify this bird. I’m not an avid birder but when the opportunity presents itself I like to photograph wildlife.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
Fun day today. Had lunch with a couple of close friends in Maquoketa and I won the flip so I didn’t have to buy lunch. 🙂
Then as a bonus I headed out of town on the Hurstville road and at the “duck pond” two trumpeter swans were swimming in the waters. I haven’t seen trumpeters at the “duck pond” for at least three years. Remember you can click on any of the images to see a larger more detailed version of the image.
I wanted to capture an image of the two swimming together but they were each doing their own thing and didn’t take my directions.
It was a fun 25 minutes.
Enjoy your day and be careful.
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