Posts for: HRBIEL
Aug 26, 2023 09:48:52 #
ClarkJohnson wrote:
Although it is an F-mount lens, the 500 PF works superbly on Z bodies as well with the FTZ adapter. Nikon has no Z-mount equivalent at 500mm. This is a great lens.
Not sure we ever will in Z mount. I think the 400 f2.8 w/teleconverter fills that need. Personally I’d like to see a 300 2.8 Z lens.
Aug 21, 2023 22:56:04 #
Thanks everyone for commenting. I continue to photograph them daily and enjoy watching their progress.
Aug 21, 2023 09:48:27 #
Have been chronicling the life of the Osprey that make the nesting platform at Canyon Lake their home. The parent pair have successfully raised and fully fledged 2 chicks. It’s exciting to watch the chicks learn how to be successful Osprey. Watching their first flights, sticking (and missing) landings, getting into and out of the water! Everything they need to learn must be learned by the 1st or 2nd week of Oct. Then natural instincts takes over and they migrate. Some as far as South America! Then the long winter with fingers crossed to see the parents return in March/April!
Aug 16, 2023 13:00:12 #
Aug 14, 2023 14:00:18 #
The only time of the year to photograph buffalo is in summer during rut or in the spring during calving season. Much of the herd was on the Barns Canyon road yesterday and a couple of bulls were clashing! Neither bull lost an eye during this skirmish and it didn’t last very long. Seems the bulls get more enraged during hot weather than during the 60+ degrees yesterday .
Jul 30, 2023 12:53:27 #
Really appreciate everyone’s comments about the burrowing owls. We’re so happy to see them return!
Jul 30, 2023 09:56:29 #
Nice shot of a recently fledged nestling. Orange eye color and white stippling on its brown feathers are the identification signs. Also, it’s probably a female based on its “necklace”.
Jul 28, 2023 11:03:24 #
We have not seen the burrowing owls since the great fire of 2017 which burned a lot of the grasslands in Wind Cave NP. The fire sterilized the soil killing the grasshoppers and their eggs upon which the owls feed. So it’s taken many seasons to return the soil and its ability to provide food for the owls. Even though there aren’t as many owls as in pre-fire years, it’s is good to see them return. Photos taken with Nikon Z8, 500mm f5.6 pf, in crop mode.
Jul 26, 2023 18:08:16 #
Along the same lines as Flyerace wrote, we see stupid people all the time wanting to take a selfie with a bull bison in the background. If the bison attacks, who do you suppose pays the price with its life; the bison for sure and maybe the person as well. High price to pay because of some thoughtless person!
Jul 26, 2023 11:39:53 #
It’s rather odd that it is flying with a transmitter. One has to be a master falconer to fly a Golden Eagle but then you would see a set of jesses attached to the legs (missing in your photos) as well as a transmitter. In this case, it’s possible this is actually a wild trapped eagle fitted with a transmitter to determine it’s territory or its migration route.
Jul 26, 2023 10:26:38 #
jgangjr wrote:
There are over 50,000 Grizzly Bears in North America, not 2,000. The 2,000 figure is for the lower 48 United States.
Thanks for the correction but that still begs the question of which one is more important…
Jul 26, 2023 08:55:31 #
Man is the only animal that drinks milk long after being weaned.
Jul 26, 2023 08:44:57 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
I don't have an answer. Other than that no way is a bear just as important as a human being.
Let me just point out that there are 8 billion humans on earth now and approximately 2 thousand grizzlies!
Jul 26, 2023 08:26:34 #
dancers wrote:
I would not be anywhere like that. stay home, stay safe.I never enter the ocean either.
Interesting that you bring up the ocean since it’s “Shark Week”!
Jul 21, 2023 08:37:02 #