Great Gray Owl

Sandhill Cranes

Sanhill Cranes at Howard Prairie Lake Or.
Back ground is real snow.
Canon 40D . 300mm f4 is l lens

Snowy Egret

Bald Eagle Portrait #2

Canon 40D 300mm is L lens W/1.4 extender.

Klamath Falls. Calif. Wild Eagle.

Ferruginous Hawk

40D 300mm f4 is L lens w/1.4 extender

Klamath Falls Dec. 2009

Turkey Valture

40D 300mm f4 is L lens w/1.4 extender

Common Loon

40D 300mm f4 is L lens w/1.4 extender

Mourning Doves

4oD 300mm f4 is L Lens w/ 1.4 extender

Sandhill Cranes

Dancing is the Cranes mating ritual

a series of leaps and bowing to each other.

40D 300mm f4 is l lens

Golden Eagle

40D 300mm f4 is L lens

w/1.4 extender.

Ring-bill Gull

40D 300mm f4 is L lens w/1.4 extender

Meter off sky exposure comp. + 2/3 set in Manual. Iso 400

White-faced Ibis

I metered off the water and took the photo in manual. 40D. 300mm f4 /1.4 extender.

Late last summer my wife and I heard about this European White Stork somewhere in Northern California. At the time, I was home recovering from a back injury. A week later, on my birthday,
she asked if I was up to a stork adventure? Back injury aside, who would miss the opportunity to
photograph this rare bird? After three long hours of a futile search we decided to abandon this
area and continue our search else where. At that moment a car was approaching so we stopped it and inquired about the illusive stork. The driver looked at us, smiled and said follow me. We drove up to a pond and this is what we saw. While I was photographing the stork, my wife turned and screamed happy birthday.

Ring-necked Pheasant (Male)

Every now and then one will pose. Canon 40D, 300mm f4 is lens,1.4 extender.

Ruffed Grouse (Female)

Everything worked here, even the light was perfect. Don't you just love it!

Greate Horned Owl (Owlet)

#1 Family of River Otters

#2 River Otters

#3 River Otters

Sharp-Shinned Hawk

European Starling

European Starling from my back-yard Photography studio with more birds to come.

Bald Eagle

Wild Bald Eagle portrait. Photo taken at Lower Klamath Basin after it's lunch. Cannon 300mm f4 IS L lens with 2x extender on a tripod.

Great Egret

Northern Flicker

Male Northern Flicker resized for enlargement from last post

Northern Flicker, Male ,Female and American Robin

Last week I became a true backyard photographer. I set up my first tree limb on the fence, added some Virginia Creeper and within three days I was photographing Flickers, Starlings and American Robins. In my excitement, I forgot to mention I also built a blind. It wasn’t great but it worked as you will see in the photos I am posting. As always keep the sun at your back. The blind was about 15 feet from subject and I used a Canon 40D with 300mm IS L lens and 1.4 extender.

Rough-legged Hawk

canon 40d- 300mm f4 IS L lens. Up close.

Great Egret

Nature is a part of what we are. From within myself it flows as a natural ingredient of the life that I know. Photography allows me to bring forth this experience. In the motion of color and form the energy pattern of life is interpreted. My physical and mental ability is the out pouring of this. The camera and lens are the instruments to show others what I see. And I see it in all created form.

Black-necked Stilt

Black-nect Stilt. Fast bird inflight best to photograph taking off or landing in water.

Canon 40d / 300mm f4 IS L lens with 1.4 extender.

Western Grebes what a treat to see these two dive down, come up and exchange reeds. This is a courtship display.

American Avocet

American Avocet one of my favorities, best to photograph flying against the wind. I mean a real stopper these birds are fast. Cannon 40d, Canon 300mm f4 IS L lens.

Osprey

Canon 40d.

Canon 300mm f4 L IS lens with 1.4 extender.

Sandhill Cranes

Sandhill Cranes at Lower Klamath Lake Refuge.

Cannon 40d.

Canon 300mm f4L IS lens with 1.4 extender.