Today was my second day in Ohio photographing songbirds with Matthew Studebaker. If you missed it, I talked more about Matthew in yesterday’s post. Today started out wet, really wet. The rain was coming down hard for quite a while. But that doesn’t hamper the birds. The orioles were out singing en masse. We had …
This weekend I had the good fortune to spend time shooting with Matthew Studebaker – one of the best songbird photographers. You can see Matthew’s work here. Matthew is particularly great at getting beautiful songbirds, especially warblers, in beautiful settings. Today began wet, but with a vibrant sun as you can tell from this singing …
As I woke up today in my tent, it felt great to have another try at the warblers. I knew they were out there as I had heard many yesterday, I just either couldn’t find them or get them out of tangled brush. Today wound up being significantly more successful, although I didn’t wind up …
The last two times I had been out, it seemed like I was getting better and better at finding and photographing the spring warblers. Well that didn’t continue today as I tried for some of the early warblers that come to southern Michigan. Too much of a good thing breeds complacency – at least that’s …
I had another warbler day down here in southern Ohio. I felt like either I’m starting to become more attuned to the warblers or else I’m got pretty lucky. One of the keys with warblers is to use your ears. With large birds, you often find them just by looking in the right places. This …
Life got a little bit busy here so I wasn’t able to do any photographing last week, but this week I was really looking forward to another try at warblers. Even two weeks later, it is still early for warblers in Michigan, so I headed down to southern Ohio – this time near the Ohio …
I had one morning left to find some early warblers in southern Ohio. I went back to where I heard them calling and actually did have some success with a Pine Warbler. It was enough to convince me that the new techniques I was trying out had some potential to capture these difficult species. I …
Catalina State Park truly is a joy to stay in. Not many cities have such a great area just outside their city limits – Tucson is lucky! Outside of the campground I called home for a couple of nights, there are numerous trails leading up into the mountains and wildlife abounds, even early in the …
Almost anywhere I go, I look to the water. Plant and animal life is always most abundant there whether it is a salt marsh, a lake, or a river. That is true in the desert too, but here water is so very scarce. One of the best places for photography in the Arizona desert is …
After my luck yesterday with the trogon, I headed to the same area of the woods to see what I could find. The Cassin’s Kingbirds continued their avoidance of me and I didn’t get any great opportunities with birds. However I had the good fortune to run into some wonderful people who were out leading …