Sometimes the biggest lesson is to be prepared. I'm glad I got the shot but missed getting a sharp image because my shutter was too slow. Still happy to photograph the American Bald Eagle in flight. I have to go back and try again.
#birds 🪶 #wildlife #photography #eagle
Ilford HP5 Plus 400 film is the standard B&W film I used in college. I started a roll and took two years to finish, and this was one of the more recent images.
Catskills, NY
#filmphotography #Ilford #B&W
Been a while since I last posted. Life can be hard sometimes. Recently decided to explore Film Photography again. The world of Color Negative film is a really fascinating medium to explore. I'm sad I missed the nuance back in college.
Red bellied woodpecker taken w/Canon R6mk2
#birds #photography
Between a male and female? Males also have red feathers along their beaks.
Correction, she
Long time no post. Events in life can sometimes be hectic. But it's nice to get a reminder of the good things.
Here is a picture of a Pileated Woodpecker. I knew he was around, but he finally made an appearance where I was able to get his picture.
#birds #backyard 🪶 #photography #motivation
Downy woodpecker
It's been a while since I've been able to get photos, but I do have a lot of shots still to share. This time a Downy woodpecker.
#birds 🪶 #birding #photography #woodpecker
True, I meant it more as a "here have another!"
Dark-eyed Junco
After a while of seeing them this winter, I finally got a photo of one of the Dark-eyed Juncos that visit my feeders.
#birds 🪶 #wildlife #photography #darkeyedjunco #winter
If you see this quote with a bridge from your gallery
The Luís Bridge in Porto, Portugal from the Duoro River
#travel #photography #portugal
Belted Kingfisher
A snowy morning looking for shorebirds. I heard a unique bird in the distance and took his picture. Didn't realize he had a fish.
#birds 🪶 #wildlife #photography #snow #kingfisher
Looking back through my catalog of images since I started Wandering Crane Photography, I found images I took that I have forgotten. They serve to inspire and show me how far I have come.
This is in Kenya during my first trip there, and the place Wandering Crane was born.
#photography #astro #travel
Downy Woodpecker
A little late of a post, but the meaning is there all the same. Happy New Year to all.
#birds 🪶 #wildlife #Photography #backyard
White-breasted Nuthatch
Northern Cardinal
Blue jay
White-breasted Nuthatch
To finish off the year, here's more of my visitors this Christmas.
#birds 🪶 #wildlife #photography #christmas #backyard
Tufted Titmouse
Black-capped Chickadee
White-throated Sparrow
The fog and rain didn't stop frequent visits to my feeders. Here are a few of them:
Tufted Titmouse
Black-capped Chickadee
White-throated Sparrow
#birds 🪶 #wildlife #photography #birding #rain
White-breasted Nuthatch
At a distance it's easy for me to mistake this Nuthatch as a Chickadee, but when you see the way he moves it quickly becomes clear. Each bird I try to nickname. My Nuthatches are now dubbed Peter Quill. Because his beak looks like the quill of a pen
#birds 🪶 #wildlife #birding #wildlifephotography
Tufted Titmouse
Another addition to my backyard visitors. This guy is a regular visitor to my feeders. I caught him enjoying a sunflower seed on a cold afternoon.
Tufted Titmouse
#birds 🪶 #photography #Wildlife #birding #backyard #wildlifephotography
Thank you. When I started, all my birding was at a destination. Now that I own my own property it has provided me the chance to bring them to me.
Blue jay
Yellow-bellied Sap sucker
When life doesn't allow you to travel, just look in your own backyard. Sometimes I am surprised by what I see.
I have received more birds in my backyard since refilling the feeders. Here are two of the visitors I had. Yellow-bellied Sap Sucker and Bluejay
#birds 🪶 #photography #backyard #birding
Northern Fiscal in Nyahururu, Kenya
A regular sighting on the Farm. This Northern Fiscal and many others survey the field.
#birds 🪶 #wildlifephotography #Kenya #birding #photography #travel
American Robin
There is something magical when you capture even the most common birds as the snow falls.
I captured this American Robin, when I visited Moraine Park in the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.
#birds 🪶 #wildlife #photography #Colorado #RockyMountains
Little Bee-eaters
Little Bee-eaters we captured in Nairobi National Park in Kenya back in 2023.
#birds 🪶 #photography #wildlife #Kenya #nationalpark
Hunter's Cisticola
Took this shot of a Hunter's Cisticola, in Nyahururu, Kenya In 2023.
#birds 🪶 #wildlife #photography #Kenya
Taita Fiscal
During a Safari in Nairobi National Park, I spotted a Taita Fiscal. He struck a pose for me.
#Safari #Kenya #birds 🪶 #photography #wildlife #Nairobi
I want to go back. It's been a while since I was there.
A good way for me to differentiate it is the beak. The beak on an Indigo Bunting is short and conical in shape and can have a mix of colors. The Mountain Bluebird has a thin, straight bill that is entirely black in color.
Indigo Buntings have different beaks that are short and conical. Very different from the mountain Bluebird that has a thin, straight bill.
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Bluebird
To follow up the Mountain Bluebird I saw in Colorado, here is an Eastern Bluebird I saw in Litchfield, CT at the White Memorial Conservation center.
#birds 🪶 #photography #wildlife 📍Litchfield, CT
*Moraine Park within the Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado
