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Wings in Nature - MAY 2024

Graceful Anhinga

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Graceful Anhinga
Blind Date

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Blind Date
Can I help you

This Green Jay is a happy inhabitant of the Aviario Nacional de Colombia about an hour south west of Cartagena, Colombia. Photo was taken last year. The bird was comfortably perched on a branch and happily posed for me for awhile, although it chose not to show its wings.

Shot on Nikon D7500 | f/5.6 | 1/320 sec | ISO 400 | 300mm

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Can I help you
Cock of Many Hearts

Rooster strutting around Tropical Park. Taken with Nikon 5600 at 130 mm.

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Cock of Many Hearts
Eyes on the prize

Red-Shouldered Hawk with his catch of the day.

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Eyes on the prize
Chilling With Mommy

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Chilling With Mommy
Just Fishing

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Just Fishing
Look at Me

Nikon D3400 | 70mm

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Look at Me
Magic Mirror

Taken at Amelia Park, Hialeah, FL

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Magic Mirror
Make Way For Ducklings

Nikon D850 | F/ 6.3 | 1/800 " | ISO 800
Focal Length 220 (150-600)
Taken on March 2024

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Make Way For Ducklings
Oh Those Wings

Learning to use masks.

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Oh Those Wings
Red-Whiskered Bulbul

NIKON D-3400: 1/2000 Sec at F/5.0 ISO 800; 155MM Taken in my garden on 4/29/2024 AT 5:58 PM. I Love watching these little birds. They are playful and entertaining. From the Audubon Website: When a few Red-whiskered Bulbuls escaped from an aviary in the Miami area in 1960, they found an environment perfectly suited to their needs. The climate was not too different from that of eastern India, where they had originated; and the suburb of Kendall, Florida, was heavily planted with exotic trees and shrubs, providing the bulbuls with abundant berries throughout the year. The birds quickly became established, but they have not spread much beyond Kendall. Another introduced population is common around Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Red-Whiskered Bulbul
Rufus Ruins the Family Photo

This nice bird show was taken at the aviary at Zoo Miami in June 2022. This feeder is a great place to take a bunch of great photos of different groups of birds that take turns eating and socializing.

This family was frolicking and eating together for a couple of minutes before they were bullied out by a bigger bird. The perfect photo was ruined by "Rufus" who decided he wanted to stuff his face while everybody else was posing for the photo.

The lighting was not the best. I toned down the highlights as best I could and I toned down all the colors to give the photo a bit of a dreamy quality.

Shot on Nikon D7500 | f/5.6 | 1/400 sec | ISO 200 | 135mm

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Rufus Ruins the Family Photo
Sad and Wet Owl

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Sad and Wet Owl
Screaming Puffin

Photo taken in Iceland next to the coast. Nikon 5600 camera at 300 mm

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Screaming Puffin
Shark Valley

This image was taken at Shark Valley in Everglades National Park. The image was shot from the tram during one of their tours. I like that I was sitting up high in the tram. This allowed me to shoot downward on the the heron. This is a view that is seldom seen. Usually we are looking up and seeing the underside of bird wings.

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Shark Valley
Sticking Together

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Sticking Together
Stork Life

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Stork Life
The Masked Crusader

NIKON D3400: 1/50 sec at f/8.0 ISO 200; 36mm Taken in my garden on 4/28/2024 at 6:22 PM. <br />
We found "Jolly Roger" (a wild Mitred Conure) in our garden, with a broken wing, on Christmas morning, 17 years ago. The vet said he would never fly again. He's been with us ever since and is every bit the pirate his name implies. His hobbies are eating the orchids and roses I work so hard growing. They have a lifespan of 30 years or more. We're in for the long haul.

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The Masked Crusader
The Western Gull

This image was taken at the harbor in Santa Barbara, California. This Western Gull was initially just standing on the sea wall which was not very exciting. I was hoping to catch the gull as it took off. I knew it would be a challenge to capture the instant of peak action. But as I slowly inched my way closer to the gull it looked like it was about to takeoff. I took the picture and was very pleased when I discovered that I had indeed gotten the take off perfectly. The Western Gull is a different species from the gulls we see on the east coast. The Western Gulls seem to be larger and more robust than their east coast cousins.

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The Western Gull
Thinking of Flying

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Thinking of Flying
Tireless Seeker

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Tireless Seeker
Tri Color Heron

Nikon D850 | F/6.3 | 1/800" | ISO 220
Focal Length 500 (150-600)
Taken on March 2024

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Tri Color Heron
Waiting For Sunrise

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Waiting For Sunrise
Want Some

Nikon D3400 | 70mm

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Want Some
Wind Swept Wings

Taken on the west coast of Florida

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Wind Swept Wings
Winged Take Off

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Winged Take Off
Within The Colorful Shadows

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Within The Colorful Shadows
Just Landed

Coconut Creek, Florida at a friend's backyard lake.
Fujifilm X-H2S with a Fujifilm 70-300mm lens @ 300mm | f/5.6 Shutter Speed 1/2500 | Auto ISO 2000
Developed with ON1 Photo Raw and Nik Efex Pro

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Just Landed

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