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This Bluejay really got after it, water flying everywhere....He's definitely clean now! 💦💙🩵🤍🖤💦

If not for Merlin's sound and photo identification, I would thought he was a Kingbird.... MERLIN ROCKS! Nikon D5600 w/500PF, handheld F/5.6 500.0mm 1/800s ISO-500 Critic welcome

Only one of the three would venture out of the nest and onto a nearby branch....he's was awkward and clumsy, but he got 'er dun!...I figure that they'll fledge in a week or so. Dad showed up, looking sharp!

After seeing a mated pair of orioles building a nest in the neighbor's sycamore tree, we decided we needed an Oriole feeder. It blows my mind that they found it in less than 20 minutes. The feeder was in the shade, but about 60 yards behind the feeder, there was a large row of cedar trees in...

Cheetah at local Zoo

I got to go for a special photography event at Wolf Mountain (Smyrna, NY -USA); what a fantastic time! For those that are curious I was shooting with a D850, Tamron 70-200mm G2 + 2x teleconverter.

We went to the Rockport - Fulton area of Texas, along the coastal bend, for some birding. The main objective was to see whooping cranes. We saw some near Goose Island State Park and on a boat tour. The photos were taken on the tour. I was able to get these shots because the captain was able to...

A Local Raptor Rescue Released a Snowy Owl over the weekend that they had rehabbed over the last two months. The bird had a broken wing and was emaciated when it was found. Two months of expert care brought the Owl back to being healthy enough for release back into the wild A local Tribal...

At San Diego Zoo

I decided to put this in a separate thread to tell the story. What I initially thought was an Anna's hummingbird was not. It is a male Costa's hummingbird that was still in my yard as of yesterday. I'll post the map of where it should be, which is nowhere near Texas. Where I live isn't even...

Handheld SOOC

Captured earlier this summer. Deer often come up from the ravine in our back yard, to sample any new growth. Funny to see, but I didn't know they could stand on their hind legs so easily.

Caught this guy just before he disappeared. Handheld / Heavy crop / SOOC

Drove by this beautiful horse yesterday, stopped and grabbed a couple photos. He came right towards me for a brief moment while i was snapping shots.

Spotted this fellow while out for a drive yesterday. Couldn't get any shots with his feet showing as they were in grass most of the time.

I got lucky and spotted this Osprey in his nest, and he gave me some great shots when he decided to stretch out his wings. Here's a couple i processed so far.

Sometimes keeping your gear in the car pays off. I spotted this guy in a cemetery on my way home from work and zipped in and starting taking shots. BTW, for those that are looking at the exif and want to know how my 70-200mm is reporting 400mm I was using a 2x teleconverter.

RS Hawk

Crow of sorts, a bit angry due to the Corvus family not having a tread of their own, so here it is. A tread to post up your pictures of the common and uncommon crows of all sorts.

Hi, I wanted to write this for a week but life kept me busy. I have wanted to do this myself for a while but never got to (so much for taking my own advice) but I happened on this event twice in 6 years: When farmers cut down the fields of grass to be used as hay for their farms it will reveal...

Caught this guy at our birdbath this morning .... Handheld / heavy crop / through a very dirty dual-pane window.

Blue Jay came for a visit

I wanted to make this post for some time but I haven't found what this bird is until very recently: Called Little Grebe or Dudchick (Tachybaptus ruficollis), it's a very small aquatic bird that I never seen until this spring. They are quite common in Europe, North Africa, Asia and Russia. But...

My wife and daughter recently returned from a 2-week safari. These are my daughter's images, posted with permission. Very pleased with the quality, proof that the latest and greatest gear is unnecessary. Kind of proud of her, she did a good job!

I was lucky enough to catch a family of swans out for a swim.

White Faced Ibis with new chick

I was asked to start a thread to show the water feature I installed in my yard. We relocated closer to the Texas coast in 2022 and there was an area under some trees to do this. Keep in mind, along the coast there are many birding destinations and many have only small water features that attract...

Stallion living free in Alberta.

Couple shots of a Northern Jacana.

A photograph of a juvenile Whooping Crane I took on January 22, 2018 was chosen to be included on the Ebird site and on the Merlin app. I was shooting Canon at the time. https://ebird.org/species/whocra

Harris Hawk with falconer

Just checking to see how many weeks of winter,,,,,,,,,,,,LOL

My first post. On POTN I used the username Sixtgp. Posted a lot in the birds forums. Brown Pelican, SF Bay

I put some of these in another thread, but here's my full series. Getting dark now, so not likely any more today.

Kachemak Bay, Alaska Olympus EM1ii and 300 Pro

They are migrating for the winter season here in Texas

Six male Hooded Mergansers and one female were having fun a couple of days ago playing the "mating game." This particular shot shows just three males escorting the gal (the other three were out of camera range) and clearly they were enjoying themselves. So was she, as evidenced by the glint in...

SOOC / handheld / heavy crop

I'd been told there were a couple albinos hanging out in a state park about 200 miles from me so decided to go for a drive today and hope for the best.

While hiking out on Mt Rainier earlier this year, I had the most amazing encounter yet with one of the area's Pika. We were trekking along a scree slope when we started hearing the distinct, sharp squeaks that indicate these little puff balls are around; so I stopped walking and began scanning...

I seem to have become obsessed with Hi Key images. While many are intentionally over exposed by 2 or 3 stops when being taken, I have also been able to adapt others. Here the distracting fore and backgrounds have been selected and "all sliders set to max" to blow out all apart from the elephant...