Spending my COVID avoidance time out with my camera.
Bufflehead
Black Phoebe
Marsh Wren
Green-winged Teal
American Coot
Belted Kingfisher
Mallards
Great Blue Heron
Pintails
Great Egret
Vervet monkeys are into everything that's not locked down.
Excellent capture. Detail, color, pose all superb.
Went to the Arcata Marsh on Sunday to focus on herons and egrets. Pretty successful day all around as I found all 4 locals.
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
GeorgeFenwick wrote:
Could that last one be a Whimbrel and not a curlew?
Oops. I guess there's no way to correct an error. It's a Whimbrel.
Definitely! I mis-labled it.
Lots of shorebirds winter here on the beaches, marshes and mudflats of Humboldt Bay. Here are a few recent images:
Sanderlings
Red-necked Phalarope
Marbled Godwit
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwits with one lone Willet
Western Sandpipers
Godwits and Curlews
Long-billed Curlew
nimbushopper wrote:
Nice set!
Canon 7DII, Canon 500mm + 1.4, all off tripod.
Laguna del Lagarto Lodge on the Rio San Carlos in northern Costa Rica provides a wonderful opportunity for photographing a large variety of birds right from the deck of the lodge. Here are a few of the 30 species I photographed there in 2015.
Keel-billed toucan
Black-cheeked woodpecker
Golden-hooded tanager
Olive-backed Euphonia
Great curassow
Blue gray tanager
Yellow-crowned Euphonia
Boat-billed heron
Yes...it rains! Pale-billed Acari
Yes...noseeums abound. Don't wear shorts!
I walked through alone in 1967. Quoting Pogo, "we have met the enemy and it is us!"
So many unique niches in this country produce such a wealth of "unique" species. Here are just a few:
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Bateleur
Hammerkop
Common ostrich
Southern yellow-billed hornbill
Helmeted guineafowl
Pearl-spotted owlet
Marabou stork
Burchell's coucal
Yellow-billed stork
Brown-hooded kingfisher
Definitely a classic image.