woodworker236 Loc: Western, Pennsylvania Home of the first JEEP

What was the bird that looked like a crow only it had white on it with blue on the wings?

Patriot66 Loc: Minnesota

Amazing shots, thanks for sharing. Makes me want to get back to South Dakota and Wyoming and enjoy the nature.

wildman Loc: Bluffton, SC

What equipment are you using? (Lens, et al) And what are the specifics of some of the shots?

These are great pics! Thank for posting.

wildman

Emmett Loc: Onalaska, Texas

Billy, great photos. I'm more interested in your blind. Can you post a photo of it? I've used a homemade pocket blind back in the early 90's but it's not good for some animals. Thanks.

joe-fl-mt

How did you get so close to the animals, or did you have to use telephoto?

sueb Loc: Kennesaw, GA

Amazing photos. Thanks for sharing and please continue.

sontog Loc: S. California

My daughter runs a animal wildlife rehab in New Mexico and I have had the opportunity to be close to some of these pronghorns. They have a fantastic personality and totally different up close than I ever imagined. Thanks for sharing these photos, they are fantastic!

dane004 Loc: WYOMING

I talked to an old boy in Moorecroft He told me when he was a kid you could drive from Moorecroft to Cheyenne and never see a Pronghorn.

Harlo '55 Loc: MONTANA

Wonderful photographs!!!! Love to watch them in a herd. How they outsmart hunters. Years ago, when I could walk, some of the shots would have made my trigger finger itch!!

buglinbilly Loc: Murray, Utah

I am still not sure if it is okay to post photos from my photo bucket on this forum. Can anyone let me know. I don't have the time to down size them, and I can post them so much faster and they actually come out a bit bigger so an older person with my eyes can actually see them. Ha Ha.

Anyway I will post a few more and hopefully someone who know will be able to tell me.

And as time permits I will go back and edit the bird shots and post the name of the birds. That will be much easier than posting the photos again with that information.

I will do about 5 photos now and hopefully before I post more someone will advise me if its okay to post these this size. Thanks, Bill

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/buglinbilly/2011%20Antelope%20Hunt%20Photos/389a.jpg

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/buglinbilly/2011%20Antelope%20Hunt%20Photos/296.jpg

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/buglinbilly/2011%20Antelope%20Hunt%20Photos/221.jpg

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/buglinbilly/2011%20Antelope%20Rut%20Hunt/400.jpg

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/buglinbilly/2011%20Antelope%20Rut%20Hunt/432.jpg

I won't post any more until someone lets me know if this is okay to do it this way.

Thanks for your help. BB

buglinbilly Loc: Murray, Utah

I think you are referring to a magpie.

Is this the bird you mean?

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/buglinbilly/2011%20Antelope%20Hunt%20Photos/311.jpg

buglinbilly Loc: Murray, Utah

Here's a photo of one of the blinds I used to get these photos. I got my degree to be a shop teacher, although I never did it, instead I went into the Real Estate business, but woodworking is one of my hobbies and so I make my own blinds.

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/buglinbilly/2011%20Antelope%20Hunt%20Photos/291.jpg

Emmett Loc: Onalaska, Texas

Thank you, that is a good looking blind. I didn't see the satalite dish, do you take it down at night? LOL

buglinbilly Loc: Murray, Utah

I use an Olympus E-3 and E-5 for many of the shots. But when they get too close, unless the wind is blowing hard to cover the noise of the shutter I have to switch to my Panasonic FZ-100.

All the lenses I use are Zukio lenses.

I know most people use Nikon or Cannon, but I think Olympus products produce just as high quality of image as do either of those. The biggest draw back is Olympus makes great glass, but you are very limited in what you can get, whereas the BiG TWO have so many great lenses.

buglinbilly Loc: Murray, Utah

I have learned through my bowhunting years what it takes in a blind to really work and its far more than most could imagine.

First you have to have a blind that hides you from the critters. But you also have to have a blind that will withstand the 70 mile an hour winds. They can destroy a blind much faster than most understand. I learned the hard way by having a few blinds destroyed.

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/qq22/buglinbilly/Antelope%20Country/4-1.jpg

And cattle graze the open prairies and unless you have a good blind they will destroy it by itching their backs, legs, head etc. And they can move a blind because they push so hard.

But I have most of that stuff figured out now.

My blind are built in small sections so I can pack them in and put them together. It takes me a couple hours to usually put one up but only about 20 minutes to take one down. I don't take them down at night, but I do take them down once I am done photographing the critters I want to photograph. It's a lot of work, but its a lot of pleasure too. And the pleasure trumps all the work.

You can see from this photo that your blind better be cow proof. Easier said than done.