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After waiting for whale shots at Marina Park, Bill Anderson and I decided to check out the Hatchery, in part alerted by Young Dave that there was a red-breasted sap sucker working on one of the rotted snags. Although I did get shots of the sapsucker, he was too far away given my 400 + 1.4x to get any reasonable-size shots to post. We walked further into creek area and almost immediately heard a woodpecker which turned out to be a male Hairy. It was too close to capture with the 1.4x extender, and fortunately it gave me time to take off the extender and get a few shots. Bill and I were at different view points, so our shots should not look nearly identical, for a change.
These were all taken with the Canon 5Diii and the 400mm f5.6L - 1/1250s f5.6 ISO as noted no exp. comp and no additional noise reduction.
A whale appeared off Marina Beach Monday (3/30) afternoon prior to Terry's arrival. Although it was over a mile out, I came prepared with my heavy tripod + 7D + 500L telephoto + 1.4x teleconverter, which combined for the equivalent of a 1120mm telephoto lens. Photographs were still difficult due to the heat waves rising off the water.
Some people believe this is one of two humpback whales (mother + baby) which have spent the past month in the area.
As I was photographing the male Eurasian green-winged teal last week, it occurred to me that I did not have many good shots of its American cousin for comparison. One was in the water fairly close and the light was good, so I took some photos.
I tried a different autofocus setting on a passing female gadwall in flight.
Bill, Daren, and I checked out the Pine Ridge Park yesterday (Wed. 4/1) looking for an owl (which we found, thanks to a local), but spent most of our time photographing and enjoying the Hairy Woodpecker action.
Canon 5Diii, 400mm f5.6L: 1/1250 f5.6 ISO 8000 to 16000 (auto)...gently nr filtered using Neat Image
Terry posted up shots of the male hairy woodpecker. Here is the female. I wonder if it is the pair whose burrow and babies we photographed two years ago.
Varied Thrush
Daren's shot of the barred owl using the 7D + 70-200L telephoto zoom.
Male bushtit from the nest that hangs over the boardwalk.
Song sparrow impersonating a sandpiper.
Warning: X Rated Photos! Not Safe for the Workplace or Children!
We watched Wesley and another hummer chasing each other around the #1 viewing platform. It turned out to be foreplay which culminated in some hummer porn right before our very eyes.
Some words of explanation about the above photos. Prior to the hummer action, I had been shooting a backlit bird using +2 exposure compensation. I forgot to reset the exposure compensation back to 0 and thus blew (out) a once in a lifetime photo op. I tweeked the shots in Picasa as best I could, but they are still over exposed.
A horned grebe was in breeding plumage at the marina. I advise everyone to get down to the marina as the window for shots of horned grebes in breeding plumage is quite small before they head inland to nest.
ol' Wes finally got laid, eh? no wonder he's been hangin' around that spot on the wire - he knew his girlfriend would show up eventually! wonder if she'll build a nest anywhere visible...
looks like i need to get down there for some shots of that grebe, too! thanks for the heads-up!
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