“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” ― Eudora Welty
Joe McNally has his hands on the just announced Nikon D4 for some months testing it out. One of the newest improvements is the video capability of this camera. Joe and his crew utilized the new feature while interviewing Little Freddie King. Watch it here.
Read the back story here.
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If you click the photo and then once redirected click it once more you can view it larger to see him better.
I believe this is a 3rd year Bald Eagle. He was in the shadow of the upper branch and didn’t change his gaze for the longest time. He was also at the end of my lens range.
My friend Dali and I stayed watching and photographing him for about 5 minutes then we moved on to meet some other friends. When we circled back around he was gone. We didn’t see him again. I’ve only seen 4 Eagles in the wild in my whole life! As you can imagine this was a very exciting sighting for me.
Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, California
Nikon D700| Nikkor 70-300@ 300mm| f5.6| 1/2500 sec| ISO 500| Manual mode| Hand-held
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This was a lovely ending to another exciting day of birding in the Pacific Flyway.
Nikon D300s| Nikkor 1735 @ 32mm| f16| 0.8 sec| ISO 160| manual mode| tripod
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On the way home from Monday’s birding and photography day this Red-tail landed in a small field by the highway to catch a ground rat or something. Theresa quickly pulled over, but before the car had stopped I started shooting, and the hawk hearing the car and tires crunching the gravel took flight!
In play back I thought the motion blur made a cool impressionist piece.
Nikon D700| Nikkor 70-300mm VR @300mm| f8| 1/80 sec| ISO 640| Manual Mode| Hand-held
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On Monday a holiday in the States myself and two girlfriends set out for the country to do some bird photography. This young Long-eared Owl was high in a conifer tree along with many other owls. My friend Theresa said she stopped counting after 18!
There looked like there might be another breed of owls in there too, but I couldn’t get a good look at any of them.
Exposing for this guy was a bit tricky. He was tucked into the tree behind these pine needles with occasional sun filtering through to highlight him. I took a lot of photographs of him hoping I hit the light just right. After 30 minutes I decided to move on. The best light was going to be in early afternoon. If I was still there I’d try it then. I wasn’t.
My book of North American Birds by National Geographic says this is an Uncommonly seen breed. Making this another fantastic find for me and my girlfriends!
I think Theresa, Rainey and I are probably Uncommon girlfriends too. How many do you know that get together for a day of birding rather than shopping? “)
Nikon D700| Nikkor 70-300mmVR @ 300mm| f8| 1/50 second| ISO 800| Manual Mode| Tripod
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Myself and two girlfriends spent the day out in the country looking for birds to photograph. Late in the afternoon I spied this big guy on the side of a hill. My friend Theresa was driving and I said, “What is that? Is that a turkey?” As she slowed down and we drew closer I was thrilled to see it was a Golden Eagle as big as a Turkey hen!
He spooked easily. The sound of our cameras clicking had him airborne in a flash!
Shooting from the passenger side of the car and through the open driver’s side window I was able to get off 3 shots before he was out of my line of sight.
This was the first time I’ve ever seen one in the wild and this close. It was so exciting. While this isn’t an award-winning photo I’m still floating and elated that I got this shot.
Nikon D700| Nikkor 70-300 @ 300mm| f7.1| 1/1000 sec | ISO 1000| Manual Mode| Hand-held
This little guy is a celebrity who is drawing large crowds of birders and photographers from around the continent to the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in California’s Pacific Fly-way belt.
His native home is China where I’ve read they’re hunted extensively. The burning question is did he migrate, is he a stow-away, or an escapee from a private zoo? No one knows how he came to be here, but they have been spotted in California further north of here in Lassen County back in 1969, 2002, and 2003.
His name Falcated refers to his sickle-shaped wing feathers.
I called him feisty because he was not shy about telling off the American Wigeons he was swimming peacefully with only seconds before.
I think he’s taken a fancy to the female Wigeon and is showing off his lovely iridescent colors, and fine plumage.
Below he’s swimming with White-fronted Geese and a male American Wigeon.
This celebrity doesn’t sign autographs or grant interviews, but don’t let that stop you from going to see him. It’s been said before and I’ll say it again, “This is no ugly duckling!”
Nikon D700| Nikkor 70-300mm VR
fact resource http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/06/4166680/falcated-duck-attracts-bird-watchers.html
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