Archive: July, 2009

A Cool Texas Day

It was a surprisingly nice day for the end of July it was down in the 80′s this morning here in Texas.  I got rained on a few times while out shooting today, but that didn’t seem to bother any of the birds.  Ran across an American Bittern these birds are always fun to watch [...]

July 25th, 2009 | Comments Off

Slow Day…

Some days the shoots are just slow.  However the one bright spot was having this Green Heron drop drop right in front of me.  This is the first time I have gotten some shots of a Green Heron so it was fun watching its behavior.  As you can see from the image I caught it [...]

July 18th, 2009 | Comments Off

Another Trip to the Wichita Mountains

This trip to the Wichita Mountains was far better than the last one.  We got a much larger variety of shots this time around.  I think it also helped that we had some idea of the places we wanted to hit up and what to expect.  I  personally got shots of Bison, Coyote, Blacktail Prairie [...]

July 15th, 2009 | Comments Off

The Marsh

I finally got my new Canon 50D so of course I had to go give it a test run and I must say I am very pleased with the results. In this first image I am really pleased that I managed to catch both the wings and the splash while this Great Egret was fishing.  [...]

July 9th, 2009 | Comments Off

Marsh Birds

Still working on my Egret and Heron project. Today I saw Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, American Bitterns, and Great Blue Herons. Marsh Bird Gallery

July 6th, 2009 | Comments Off

Snowy Egrets

Had some good luck shooting some Snowy Egrets today at the nature center.  I have an on going project photographing the different types of marsh birds there.  The heat wasn’t too bad this morning around 8am though it certainly got hot by noon time pretty sure it was over a 100 degrees. Snowy Egrets Gallery

July 3rd, 2009 | Comments Off