Raptors at CCEEC
Spent some time at the Carbon County Environmental Education Center on Friday morning, where I got the rare opportunity to get up close to several raptors. Sadly, they weren’t wild raptors, but rather permanent residents of the Center who are unable to be released back into the wild. There were some broken wings and a [...]
Green Heron @ 300mm
As you may have gathered from my last post, about f/4 goodness, I’m shooting wildlife at 300mm these days. Specifically the 300L f/4 IS, which arrive at my door on Monday. Yesterday was my first outing with it; I’ll definitely write a full review once I’ve owned it for a while, but right off the [...]
Simple Clicks – f/4 goodness
This is what you get when you shoot @ 300mm, f/4, ISO 250. It’s called f/4 goodness, and it absolutely rocks! Lovely bokeh and major isolating power give you more tools to work with, and make the whole thing a lot more fun. If you’re wondering how, I’ll tell soon.
Monday Morning: Part 2
We left Fords Pond half-numb and starving and dropped down into Clark’s Summit, where Paul’s cousin has a diner – one of those great little places that’s unassuming, with good, cheap food. Refueled and warmed, we headed out again, this time up to Lackawanna State Park. At Lackawanna, the wind was still blowing in from [...]
Friday, 07 May
Out in the morning to Fords Pond to chase the birds. It was a very good morning! After my experiences shooting the backyard, letting the birds come to me, it was very satisfying to successfully pursue them. The sheer number of species that I was able to see was exciting – I wasn’t able to [...]
More backyard birds
The afternoon was too nice to pass up on Wednesday, so before my evening senior shoot, and in between some editing, I stepped out back with the bird lens again and sat in the shade by the fence to see what came around. Damn good thing that I did. Caught a few of this male [...]
Let them come to you
Thursday evening I went out in search of birds and barely found any. Friday evening rolls around with more great light and thankfully no wind, so I got ready to head out again, but at the last minute stopped. From my bedroom window I could see several songbirds eating from the feeder in the back [...]
Birding again
Despite the howling winds – which fortunately calmed around sunset – I headed out to Fords Pond in search of the birds. I haven’t done much bird work in a while now, nothing serious since I stopped shooting eagles in February. In fact, I’ve been working wide now for weeks without hardly taking the “bird [...]
Saturday Birds
Last weekend, the wildlife was phenominal. Yesterday, not so much. That’s the way it goes – sometimes it’s with you, sometimes it passes you by, be it the light, the moment, or the critters. Still, I got a lucky break or two. For starters, I didn’t even have to leave my living room to get [...]
More Weekend Wildlife
Sunday’s outing started out with the Muskrat Rumble, but from there it shifted exclusively to birds, which have definitely returned to the area after their southern winter. Early evening has been, for me at least, the best time to capture bird activity with the camera; they tend to feed then, before settling down to roost [...]
