A wooded area, up a tree, in the shade, etc,.
Doesn’t matter, it’s a first photograph of this hard to catch bird.
Summer Tanager
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Yellow Billed Kite, Mid Air Feeding
These photographs were taken at The Center For Birds Of Prey. Mississippi Kites live near by, however this particular Kite is from Africa.
Too feed this bird naturally, Kites catch prey in the air, bits of meat are tossed high in the air. The Kite will glide and twist to catch it while flying by.
The bird is above my head here, catching food in flight (click image for full size).
Most times food is caught with their feet, above he used his beak.
These photographs were taken using a Sigma 150-600 C lens. This is a fast focus lens.
Marsh, A Perspective
As we publish our wildlife articles descriptions of the locations usually are included. Personally I find it impossible to accurately describe some of these places.
While out the day I changed to a shorter lens allowing me to capture what was around me.
To help myself as much as anything I chose to stand in the cross roads of old dikes to get an image of each direction. I did a video but never did finish.
To start, the image above shows the direction we had come to reach this point. In the distance our car sits on the dirt road. A gate prevents driving out here any further so we walk from here on.
This is the opposite direction, we walk from here on. The grasses have grown tall enough to block our view on either side. However this is a dike road, so marsh is down behind the grasses (oh, and things that live in the marsh are down there too).
Since this is the cross road we can walk left or right here too. Above, and you can see the water, is a dike. There is an island end of this road, and another dirt road with ‘the eagle trees’.
Finally we have the last direction, complete with a water levy system (truck) to control the flow. The Department of Natural Resources keeps the water flowing, or draining, depending on the season and weather.
Glue together all the views we see here makes a ‘tiny speck’ within this marshland.
Pretty impressive, beautiful, and don’t run out of gas. No cell service.
Green Heron In The Cane
This little Heron tortured me trying to get these shots.
In this huge marsh he would fly just out of reach, and sit.
I would get closer, he waited, then move just far enough, again.
He grew tired of me, gave me these photographs, and flew right back to where the whole thing started.
An Alligator Kind Of Day
Some days it’s Egrets, others it might be Storks or Eagles. And yes, some days it’s Alligators.
One of the best things about shooting outdoors is not knowing what kind of day it might be.
A day like this is not for everybody, but we love it.
I mean really, I could be in a cubicle !
Tawny Eagle
Neither big or little birds like their feathers to be messy.
While shooting portraits of this Eagle the wind started to blow. So of course he wouldn’t sit quiet for the session.
Tawny Eagles are native to most of Africa, except in the Sahara desert.
Eagle courtesy of The Center For Birds Of Prey, Charleston, South Carolina.
Park In Charleston, Flowers
There is a park in Charleston that has these in many different colors. It turns out most of my shots that day were nothing special. I did like this after I diffused the clarity a little.
Cardinal In The Fence Posts
My first thought was to move close or zoom in tighter. The fence posts he moved through made a nice scene though. I let the bird move around and do all the work.
Because I was shooting so wide I had no idea if they would even be of any use.
Maybe I should have zoomed closer, I did have up to 400 mm to use. They’re different enough though.
These were taken in the horse pasture, Middleton Plantation, Charleston.