When I get a good opportunity I’m not shy about holding down the button. These shots were part of a series taken of this bird making some overly ambitious attempts on Herons much to big for him.
Red-shouldered Hawk (From ToDo)
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Wildlife Photography
Screech Owl, A Good Day
I’ve made comment on how there can be days we are out shooting that are impossible to explain. We live in a photographers heaven.
Right After this we bumped into a River Otter. 😆😆
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400 ll, Lightroom.
Another Marsh Resident, Alligator
Find a patch of reeds, some dry land with grass, or maybe cane then look around for one of the locals. The marshes have cuts and canals along the dikes, which is where I spotted this one.
ACE Basin, Donnelley, South Carolina.
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400 ll, Lightroom.
Great Egret Ignoring The Anhinga
The last time we went out to the big marshes we were braving the heat wave. And a heat wave down here is not something to trifle with. It was just a few hours, most time in the car riding on dikes.
There wasn’t much happening, even the Alligators were hiding. I did watch this Anhinga attempt to take control of the fallen Spoonie Tree.
The Egret couldn’t be bothered to even address the Anhinga at all. A quick glance and the Anhinga settled down.
Bold River Otter
Since I went back to the start of my current Lightroom catalogue after thinking about our large number of Wood Stork images another set came to mind. Shooting around the Lowcountry means having way more photographs than you can possibly publish. And really, how many of us will actually delete everything we didn’t publish.
This is a case in point.
Ellen and I were standing on the side of a back road looking over a marsh that we know has always been a busy spot. The ACE Basin has plenty of these.
Suddenly there was huge splash, water flying, right next to me. Happens often, it’s an Alligator we scared. But not this time.
A big adult River Otter did a long jump into the marsh canal and was making a run for the road, and the marshes on the other side. Most roads here run between the marshes so it was easy to turn and focus in the general direction.
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He hit the road and trotted over to the Palms and reeds lining the roadside marsh.
Needless to say we just held the button down, and that’s why we have so many photographs to choose from.
The whole thing was over in seconds, but we laughed a lot longer than that.
‘The North American river otter has long and thin whiskers that are used to detect prey in dark waters. An average adult male weighs about 11.3 kilograms (25 lb) against the female’s average of 8.3 kg (18 lb). Its body length ranges from 66 to 107 cm (26–42 in). About one-third of the animal’s total length consists of a long, tapered tail. Large males can exceed a weight of 15 kg (33 lb)’ (Wikipedia)
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400 ll, Lightroom.
Wood Storks
Ellen reminded me the other day how many times we visited the Wood Storks in Port Royal and just how many photographs we had sitting in folders. This year was the busiest rookery season for the big birds.
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Wood Storks
Wood Storks
Wood Storks
Wood Storks
Specs; OM-1 mk2, OM 100-400 ll, Lightroom, Topaz, DxO Color Efex, DxO Filmpack.
He’s Been In The Mud, Ibis
A quick shot of a White Ibis that caught my attention but ultimately went no where. The mud was the reason I actually took the image. White Ibis love poking around in muck looking for snacks. And yet because they are always preening rarely look dirty.
I hesitate to think about what kind of mud this one found to be this dirty 😆😆.
Hang On Tight ! Anole
I had been trying to get a little more reach while shooting out back. A long birding lens, like the OM 100-400 (200-800 EFOV) is too clunky to poke around with out there.
It seemed like a place to try the ‘Bodashus Bargain Basement Plastic Fantastic’ (and ancient) lens. All plastic and all of $60.00 very used.
Turns out the only way you can grab focus on a fast lizard is if he’s hanging on for dear life. Snappy it’s not. But it is fun for some odd reason.
He was in no danger here, I’ve seen them jump out of trees, bounce, and get up and do it again.
Specs; OM-1 (1), Olympus 40-150r, Lightroom, Topaz.