David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Morning walkabout: Ring-billed Gull, Turkey Vulture, Blue Jay, American Crow, Dark-eyed Junco, White-throated Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Northern Cardinal. My eBird Checklist.
Morning backyard walkabout with a Nikon D2xs camera and 80-400 mm VR lens. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
Lambertville — D&R Canal and Delaware River. High water and flooding.
Morning walkabout: Canada Goose, Ring-billed Gull. My eBird Checklist.
Morning walkabout with a Leica D-Lux 5 camera. Individual images in the slideshow are available in my PhotoShelter Gallery.
After sunrise at Playalinda beach, I went went for a drive on Biolab road. A lot of birds were out in the early morning sun. Birds observed with images include Great Blue Heron, Roseate Spoonbill, Peregrine Falcon, Pied-beak Grebe, Ring-billed Gull, Great Egret, Northern Cardinal, American White Pelican, Snowy Egret, Tricolored Heron, Turkey Vulture, and Red Shouldered Hawk.
Ring-billed Gull (imm.) Mackinac State Park. Image taken with a Nikon D200 camera and 80-400 mm VR lens (ISO 100, 400 mm, f/5.6, 1/250 sec). It was ten years ago, and I wasn’t good at focusing or composing an image (without cutting the foot off).
Ringed-Billed Gull calling out like a wolf for its friends to join in harassing a Great Egret with a fish too big to swallow. Biolab Road in Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Image taken with a Nikon D3s camera and 80-400 mm VRII lens (ISO 200, 400 mm, f/5.6, 1/400 sec). I came back to the same spot several hours later, and the Great Egret was still trying to swallow the fish. It finally got it part way down its neck, but then the Great Egret didn’t look like it could fly.
