Today I went a-birding with some pals to the Viera Wetlands and saw many birds. Took a few photos, too, despite the dreary gray conditions.
Here are just a few of the images I did not immediately relegate to the e-trash can.
Common moorhens are numerous and noisy.
This eastern meadowlark sang for us and threw in a few very western meadowlarky-sounding phrases.
Mr. Wilson! I found your snipe!
My fave duck, blue-winged teal. Already paired off and thinking about making some little teal.
Drippy the limpkin was eating snails.
And we found a very scarce owl the Stodgian owl. This is the only US record. Its origin is suspect.
6 comments:
Sweet pictures. You're too tough on yourself. Were you hand-holding or was your camera on a tripod for these?
Wonder what would have happened had the aperture been opened up three or four stops? It worked for me today in snow.
Miss you.
Dear First Commentor:
I have resigned myself to looking at the manual to figger that exact thing out for tomorrow. Miss U2 (not Bono)
Nice pics, keep 'em coming. I played "Guess the bird" and the only thing I missed was the limpkin. What a cool looking bird.
I had an Eastern Meadowlark here in snowy SW Ohio this morning, but he was not singing. He was sitting on the wire looking very forlorn, poor guy. Also had a male Red-winged Blackbird and a gaggle of Brown-headed Cowbirds. Talk about confused Icterids.
~Kathi
Bill:
At least the meadowlark wasn't giving you any malarkey.
That was an all-time low in corniness.
Was the owl of the subspiecies Walmartius or Kmartius?
We see them in Canada but hey are of the subspicies Timhortonus
RR
such wonderful photographic opportunities that you had on your trip! Just love hearing about your many adventures!
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