Snowy scaup 🌨️

Sony A1
Sony 200-600
600mm, f6.3, 1/640, ISO 640, Handheld

#wildlifephotography #birds #sonyalpha

I've seen a few loons in recent years, but they're usually far away in huge lakes, so I was surprised to see one in a small lake nearby. Their sleek breeding plumage is amazing up close 🤩

Sony A1
Sony 200-600
600mm, f6.3, 1/500, ISO 500, Handheld

#wildlifephotography #birds #sonyalpha

A Horned Grebe, almost done molting into its breeding plumage, cruises by at sunrise 😈

Sony A1
Sony 200-600
600mm, f6.3, 1/400, ISO 800, Handheld

#wildlifephotography #birds #sonyalpha

A pair of American oystercatchers politely tell an unwelcomed male to get lost during a sunset squabble 🦪

3.8.24
Sony A1
Sony 200-600
600mm, f6.3, 1/1250, ISO 200, Handheld

#wildlifephotography #birds #sonyalpha

Nothing better to test your camera's autofocus capabilities than photographing tree swallows in the snow zooming over a lake. Keeper rate was about 0.000001% 🎯

Sony A1
Sony 200-600
600mm, f6.3, 1/2500, ISO 1250, Handheld

#wildlifephotography #birds #sonyalpha

Ring-necked duck in the snow ❄️

Sony A1
Sony 200-600
600mm, f6.3, 1/125, ISO 125, Handheld

#wildlifephotography #birds #sonyalpha

#ploverlover 💙🤎

3.8.24
Sony A1
Sony 200-600
600mm, f6.3, 1/1000, ISO 1250, Handheld

#wildlifephotography #birds #sonyalpha

Who's watching who? 👀

Sony A1
Sony 200-600
600mm, f6.3, 5sec, ISO 200, Tripod

#wildlifephotography #birds #sonyalpha

A roseate spoonbill silhouetted in a foggy sunrise 🌅

3.5.24
Sony A1
Sony 200-600
600mm, f6.3, 1/3200, ISO 100, Handheld

#sonyalpha #birds

After months of restoration efforts from the hurricanes, happy to hear Fort DeSoto finally reopened this week. Sure sounds like a great place to be after a week of single-digit temps here in the Midwest 🏖️

3.7.24
Sony A1
Sony 200-600
600mm, f6.3, 1/800, ISO 200, Handheld

#sonyalpha #sonya1 #birds

A barred owl heads out to hunt with the setting sun 🌅

Sony A1
Sony 200-600
600mm, f6.3, 1/500, ISO 400, Handheld

#sonyalpha #sonya1 #a1 #sony200600 #owls #barredowl

An eastern screech owl gets ready for his busy night 👀 This was my first attempt at long-exposure owl photography, glad a couple of them turned out.

Sony A1
Sony 200-600
600mm, f6.3, 1sec, ISO 4000, Tripod

#photography #wildlifephotography #sonyalpha

Thanks, Rhonda, one of the few times a gray sky worked in my favor 🙂

A snowy owl perched atop someone's home. Loved how it looked on the snow-covered roof with the cloudy sky behind it, as if it were floating in air. ❄️🦉

Sony A1
Sony 200-600
600mm, f6.3, 1/1250, ISO 1600, Handheld

#photography #wildlifephotography #sonyalpha #snowyowl

I'd be happy to participate, thanks!

A short-eared owl flies low over a field with a cow in the distance behind it

That one time a short-eared owl ruined my beautiful shot of a cow 🐮

12.8.23
Sony A7IV
Sony 200-600 + 1.4TC
840mm, f9.0, 1/1600, ISO 1250, Handheld

#photography #wildlifephotography #sonyalpha #shortearedowl

A bull elk on a chilly fall morning 💨

Sony A1
Sony 200-600
600mm, f6.3, 1/250, ISO 3200, Handheld

#photography #wildlifephotography #sonyalpha #wyoming #grandtetonnationalpark #gtnp #elk

Instagram certainly doesn't love us wildlife photographers, here's hoping that Bluesky does 🫎🧸🦅🦉
#photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #moose