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A new year means a new thread. The afternoon of New Year's day I took the 7DII + 500L telephoto lens + 1.4x teleconverter + tripod out to the fishing pier. Surf scoters were looking for mussels embedded in the barnacles attached to the pier supports.
I need not have bothered lugging around the super telephoto setup as the birds were close enough to photograph with the handheld 1Dx + 100-400L telephoto zoom.
A small flock of Brant were below Sunset Ave. Thursday afternoon (1-4-18). I don't know if this is a late group headed south or an early group headed north.
A black scoter was off Sunset Ave. as well. I always see them here and not around the fishing pier like their cousins the surf scoters.
Two male northern shovelers were in the large pond at Pine Ridge Park. One was swimming around in circles, typical of shovelers. One theory is that this creates a vortex which brings up food from the bottom.
Wednesday afternoon (1-10-18) offered up a dark, but dry respite from the rain. I made a quick trip to the marsh while my son was working out at the gym.
The marsh in winter "plumage".
I call this Killdeer Island due to all the killdeer on it.
Set up the 7DII + 500L+ 1.4x teleconverter for closeups of the killdeer hunkered down on the island.
A few were walking on the mud at the east end of the island.
A pair of green-winged teals swam past the island.
I started at the day at the marsh. Wesley, the resident male Anna's hummer, was busy putting on displays and chasing rivals from the tree behind the #2 viewing platform.
Wesley or one of his buddies brightened up an otherwise rainy, dreary Thursday afternoon (1-18-18) at the marsh. The streaks in the background are raindrops photographed at 1/250 sec.
Friday afternoon (1-26-18) a friend led me to a secret location where a large flock of dunlin were taking shelter from the wind. All of these photos were taken at f/5.6 with the 1Dx + 100-400L II telephoto zoom.
I should have been shooting these closeups at f/8 for a greater depth of field.
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