Posted in Birds, Our Place on Nov 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. More than any of the other birds on our feeders chickadees seem to have little problem with me standing ten feet away taking pictures. I suppose food trumps fear when the nights are getting colder and winter approaches. Note: This is an extreme crop as a test of the Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 [...]
Posted in Birds, Our Place on Oct 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. As the temperature drops the songbirds on our feeders eat more and the more they eat the more often I have to fill the feeders. My wife thinks the birds put hobo signs on our house: "humans keep feeders full here, empty fast for fresh seed."
Posted in Animals, Birds, Landscape, Photo Resources on Aug 12th, 2008 No Comments »
Naturescapes.net is a resource and a community of landscape and animal photographers, articles, discussion, workshops, and a store. Looks like a friendly place to ask questions about all things nature photography. [via Dale Allyn]
Posted in Birds, Photographers on Aug 6th, 2008 5 Comments »
My old friend Scott James nailed a nice picture of a female ruby throated hummingbird. Way to go Scott.
Posted in Birds, Our Place on Jun 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I decided to see if I could stand six feet away from this tube feeder for long enough for birds to ignore me and come in and eat. It took two minutes for this chickadee to swoop in and pick up a seed.
Posted in Birds, Photographers on Jun 23rd, 2008 6 Comments »
palko72 has some of the best bird photography I’ve seen on flickr in a while. He has a very long lens (600mm) which certainly helps but still, you have to aim it and know when to shoot. He’s very good as this shot demonstrates.
Posted in Birds, Cats, Video on Mar 11th, 2008 4 Comments »
Dang, what a soft heart, this made me tear up. [via David Darling]
Posted in Birds, Photographers on Dec 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
The current National Geographic has a piece called Wings of the Albratross with amazing photographs of these birds by Frans Lanting. Amazing birds, incredible photography.
Posted in Birds, Objects, Stories on Oct 10th, 2007 10 Comments »
This is a true story. When I was ten (1961) my mother got me a subscription to Popular Mechanics magazine which I poured through looking at the pictures and diagrams. In the back, mixed in with all the other small advertisements for army surplus weather balloons tanks, and bazookas was one for a "free" Audubon [...]
Posted in Birds, Photographers on Aug 10th, 2007 1 Comment »
Martin Klimas has some incredible images of birds in flight, among others. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed.]
Posted in Birds, Photographers on Apr 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
One of my flickr contacts tollen has posted this image of snowgeese. Check it out on flickr as large as you can. A spectacular image.
Posted in Birds, Our Place on Mar 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Anne was eating breakfast the other day and called me to watch our local, young hawk eating its breakfast too. Being a "country girl" she was able to continue eating as the hawk dismembered the dove and pieces went flying. This was shot through a gas-filled, double-paned window and cropped.
Posted in Birds, Photographers on Jan 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
Carlos posted another hummingbird image. Oh my.
Posted in Birds, Our Place on Aug 27th, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I was at the feed store getting bird seed for our other feeders and because I’m so in awe of Carlos’s hummingbird shots I figured, in honor of him I’d give it a try. So I bought this feeder and hung it up on the gutter outside the living room window. The window [...]
Posted in Birds, Our Place on Jul 9th, 2006 3 Comments »
Nuthatches are my favorite birds. They’re the only birds that can walk forwards down a tree (woodpeckers can’t do this although they can hop down a tree). I don’t know the gender of these two but they were a pair for sure and once they got used to me they went after the seed. These [...]
Posted in Birds, Our Place on Jul 9th, 2006 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. After splitting and stacking firewood all day I decided to “take my beer” on the bridge with beach chair and camera on tripod. The bridge (which crosses our stream) is situated close to two feeders, this tube and a wooden feeder with suet. My goal was woodpeckers and my plan was to stick [...]
Posted in Birds on Jul 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
There’s a wonderful Alexander Calder stabile in the quad in front of City Hall in New York City. Calder lived and worked in Roxbury, Connecticut, coincidentally, right down the road from where my drum group meets every Monday night. I’ll be driving by his house (he’s long passed) in an hour.
Posted in Birds on Jul 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
Looks to me like a male pigeon is preening and necking with a female. This was inside the gated grounds of City Hall in New York City.
Posted in Birds, Places on Jun 21st, 2006 No Comments »
New York City. We were waiting for a friend in Little Italy and we found a small corner park to sit down in. Our bench afforded views of kids playing in a fountain, people playing chess, reading, talking, and napping. While all of this human activity was going on numerous pigeons were doing their food [...]
Posted in Birds, Places on Jun 13th, 2006 2 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. A friend and I set up shop on a boardwalk running through a meadow in the Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Land Trust. The meadow has a dozen bird houses on poles for the tree swallows living there and one of them was within focal reach of our long lenses. Male on [...]
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