Thanks!Beautiful shot, Billybob.
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Thanks!Beautiful shot, Billybob.
A lovely varied series of shots. Well done!Some friends from a recent California visit including a tern (not quite in the same league as ISv's tern, but we do our best).
A rather dreary, sunless day at Bolsa Chica in Huntington Beach (it doesn't rain in Southern California, but I definitely felt some drops!).
First, a little guy, a semipalmated plover.
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Next is a Caspian tern fishing and successfully catching a fish.
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A Marbled Godwit
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And Last, a Willet
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Nice one from kayak level!Wood Duck taking off
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Yes - the bird is magnificent!!! My photos - hardly, I didn't have the chance to go earlier in the morning and missed the good light. I like your photos better!Magnificent series ISv!
Great photos!Some friends from a recent California visit including a tern (not quite in the same league as ISv's tern, but we do our best).
A rather dreary, sunless day at Bolsa Chica in Huntington Beach (it doesn't rain in Southern California, but I definitely felt some drops!).
First, a little guy, a semipalmated plover.
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Next is a Caspian tern fishing and successfully catching a fish.
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A Marbled Godwit
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And Last, a Willet
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Beautiful!Wood Duck taking off
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I watched only the Puffins so far and it's really great! Thanks for the link!I saw a great series of videos on the BBC yesterday of Puffins and Guillemots flying underwater. They can hold their breath for up to 2-3 minutes while catching sand eels etc. They are swimming underwater but in the same way as flying above. Here is an Attenborough clip on YouTube. (I suppose I should have posted it on another thread as the birds are in water).
Lol, the mutual-admiration society is in full session! I'm glad that we can enjoy each other's efforts.Yes - the bird is magnificent!!! My photos - hardly, I didn't have the chance to go earlier in the morning and missed the good light. I like your photos better!
Guilty as charge, or more to the point, guilty of superficial reading. The first bird you mentioned was the tern. I failed to notice your use of the adjective "missing" to modify your reference. For me, I have no idea what a bird is until I look it up, so I didn't misidentify, I simply misread (getting my reading glasses).Great photos!
And to keep my image of taxonomical jerk: stop calling the Tropic birds "Tern" please. They are in their very own Order - Phaetontiphormes (you can find brief but good info in Wikipedia). For example the cats and the dogs have less differences than the Terns and the Tropic birds!
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Thanks ISv. There wasn’t much cropping - it came pretty close. They get habituated to humans as there are a lot of people with big lenses taking pictures. Unfortunately the owls only stick around for about 1 month in the area.The second one is really great!
Thanks Click.Great shots! Well done, DanP.
Lovely shots! Which area is this?Thanks ISv. There wasn’t much cropping - it came pretty close. They get habituated to humans as there are a lot of people with big lenses taking pictures. Unfortunately the owls only stick around for about 1 month in the area.