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Wordless Wednesday 33/52 Anna’s Hummingbird

August 16, 2017 – 5:09 am
Posted in Backyard Birding, Birds in Flight, Birds in the Wild, Birds of North America, Hummingbirds, Photography, Wordless Wednesday
Tagged Anna's Hummingbirds, Backyard Birding, Birds in Flight, Birds of North America, Nature, Photography, Wordless Wednesday
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Anna's Hummingbird

Nikon D700| Nikkor 200-500mm| SanDisk Digital Film| PS CC 2017

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American Bald Eagle & Me

June 10, 2017 – 1:15 pm
Posted in Bald Eagles, Birds, Birds in Flight, Birds in the Wild, Birds of North America, Nikon, Photography
Tagged American Bald Eagle, Birds in Flight, Birds in the Wild, Nikon, Photography, Santa Clara County
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I was birding on Saturday June 3rd looking for an Indigo Bunting and upon my arrival to the location soaring over my head was an American Bald Eagle! That’s a big deal in Santa Clara County. Eagles have been making a comeback here for the last few years which is super exciting to birders, but there are still only a handful here.

Anyway, it flew across the pond to a grove of tall trees and perched there and looked like he/or she was settled in for a long rest. I watched it for sometime then moved to the grassy area to photograph Western Bluebirds which I’ll be sharing soon.

Then I followed some Red-winged Blackbirds a bit then turned around to check on the Eagle and OMG! It was flying right for me!

I brought my camera up to my face in lighting speed, and fired off a burst of images following its flight path. We made eye to camera lens contact, then it veered right and headed for the northern hills, and I lost it. I was doing my happy dance! Isn’t that wing span somethin’?

Click on the image to see it better. WP compression isn’t working for me again. 😦 I may have to mess around with image sizes again to find something that looks good without having to click on an image.

I received my 200-500mm back from Nikon Service on Thursday, but I haven’t felt good enough to get out with it. I hope tomorrow this bug is over being in my system so I can go out and play!

Hope you all are having a great start to your week-end!

Nikon D810| Nikkor 300mm f/4| Hoodman Digital Film| PS CC 2017

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Wordless Wednesday 13/52: The Majestic Bald Eagle

March 29, 2017 – 12:51 am
Posted in Bald Eagles, birding, Birds in the Wild, Birds of North America, Photography, Santa Clara County Birding, Wordless Wednesday
Tagged Bald Eagles, Bald Eagles in Santa Clara Co, Big Feet, Birds, Birds in Flight, Birds in the Wild, Birds of North America, Perched, Talons, Wordless Wednesday
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Bald Eagle Female Perched_DMZ6824

Bald Eagle Talons Female

Bald Eagle Female

Nikon D700| Nikkor 200-500mm| Lexar Digital Film| PSCC 2017

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Project 52: Wordless Wednesday 1/52

January 4, 2017 – 5:32 am
Posted in Birds, Birds in Flight, Birds in the Wild, Birds of North America, California Wildlife Reserves, Photography, Project 52: Wordless Wednesday, Snow Geese
Tagged Birds, Birds in Flight, Birds of North America, California Wildlife Refuges, Dusk, Nikon, Photography, Project 52, Snow Geese, Wordless Wednesday
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Snow Geese in Flight

Snow Geese in Flight

Snow Goose in Flight

Snow Geese in Flight

Nikon D700| Nikkor 200-500mm @500mm| Lexar Professional Digital Film| PS CC 2017

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Super Moon Rising November 2016

I mentioned in yesterday’s blog post here that photographing November’s Super Moon was N° 1 on my photography list of things to do this past week-end.

Quite awhile back I made plans to shoot it with with friends, and a photography group we’re in in central California at a Sandhill Crane Refuge called Woodbridge Ecological Reserve aka Isenberg Crane Reserve. The Sandhill Cranes Winter here, and in November both Greater and Lesser Sandhill Cranes are on the Reserve.

The goal was to photograph the Sandhill Crane’s evening Fly-in and rising Super Moon.

Here is a series of images I made.

It was hazy and a little cloudy, but here is the Moon just rising above the mountains. You can barely see the mountains.

…some Sandhill Cranes making their way into the Marsh.

Two Sandhill Cranes flying in high in front of the Moon.

Once the sun went down it was pretty tough shooting. I really pushed the ISO to keep my shutter speed up so the Sandhill Cranes wouldn’t be too blurry, but I failed for the most part. I also focused on the Moon and not the Cranes which didn’t help keep the Cranes sharp. Still. I would do it all over again. It was an amazing evening hearing and seeing the Cranes coming in with this year’s special Super Moon, and the company was the best.

Nikon D700| Nikkor 200-500mm| Lexar Digital Film| PS CC 2017 & On1 Photo 10.5

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Yellow-billed Magpie

November 24, 2012 – 6:01 pm
Posted in Birds, California, hikes, Nature, Nikon, Wildlife
Tagged Birds in Flight, Mission Peak, Nature, Nikon, Nikon D700, Photography, Yellow-billed Magpie
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Yellow-billed Magpie, originally uploaded by dmzajac2004-.

I thought his iridescence was lovely in the light. I kind of wish I’d taken my 70-300 this time as there was more wildlife than I thought I’d see going up to Mission Peak.

Nikon D700| Nikkor 28-105@105mm| f6.3| 1/800s | ISO 320| Manual Priority| Hand-held