Birds at the feeder
While my backyard bird feeder is still sitting empty – the local birds haven’t found it yet – the feeder at the Mongaup Falls blind was busy yesterday morning! I know that some bird photogs will say that shooting at a feeder isn’t purely “wild,” or some such thing. On one hand I can agree, [...]
Eagles – best day yet!
Getting back to Mongaup Falls just after sunrise required a 0545 wakeup call, but was totally worth it! Sadly, the activity at the Mongaup blind was mostly taking place down the lake, far out of range, and directly in the flare of the rising sun. The juveniles made a few passes up by the blind, [...]
Bird Studio – What kind of bird feed?
As interesting as the final results of a project such as a bird studio are, I’m always equally fascinated by the things I learn along the way. This project has been especially enlightening in little ways. For instance, bird feed. I always assumed that bird feed was bird feed – that there really wasn’t [...]
Bird Studio – Feeders
As my project to build a backyard bird studio gets underway, the first step is finding a bird feeder, because they’re not going to just show up on their own and twitter, “Hey, we’re here!” (Of course, this presupposes that you have a location for the feeder; if not, then you’re SOL.)
My mom had [...]
Backyard Bird Photography
Over the past six months I’ve devoted a lot of my photographic energy to tackling bird photography. It’s a field that I find very rewarding and continue to have a lot of fun with, to the extent that I’ve adjusted some of my equipment to meet its specific conditions.
What hasn’t changed, however, is that [...]
Afternoon – pretty hot
The morning may not have been the best, but I got back out after a late lunch. It was one of those mid-winter afternoons that you dream about; almost 50 degrees, no wind, bright sun in a clear blue sky. The snow is soft and melting, the critters are out and about, and the whole [...]
Morning – not so hot
Up this morning and out early with the promise that I’d be back in time to head south with Mandy to take her sister to see a performance. Not my favorite thing, being limited on time like that, but the forecast was for an amazing morning, so I figured that limited time in the great [...]
Eagle Watching
What brings a dozen people to a little parking lot along the banks of a half-frozen river? What makes them stand there in the wind and cold, or huddle in their cars, for hours on end? What makes them scan the sky and jump every time they spot the black dot of a bird [...]
New bird shots
I’ve spent the last several days out looking for birds. Songbirds, raptors, waterfowl, it doesn’t matter – any bird will do, so long as it’s within reach of my telephoto lens. This mission has several driving factors; using the new telephoto lens, enjoying the last days of my vacation, and adding new birds to my [...]
Early images with the Canon 7D
Saturday was a cold, wet day in Northeastern PA, but I still managed to get in some test shots with the new Canon 7D. These were really the first shots I’d been able to take, excluding the few in my apartment that came after I unpacked the camera. There’s certainly nothing scientific about [...]