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Victor
Victor of the battle for the space this female kingfisher
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Diving
Just captured as she dives for a fish
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Eagle
Juvinile eagle just sitting on a perch ignoring everything else
Down stroke
Great Blue Heron in full down stroke here passin my location
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Thnin k of launching
seagul on the walkway raining thinking about jumping off
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singing
small finch just a singing away. captired a bit away as I was waling down the boardwalk
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Landing
Seagul coming in for a landing on the walkway
Watching
Kingfisher up in the tree in the early morning light of the day
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Looking
Looking in Lak Maury for food in the morning light
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Hoodie
Captured a hoodie in the early morning light just as the sun came up
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Trio
Captured this trio of ducks on a log squaking a me down near the south shore of the lake
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What are you looking at?
Duck stops preening to stare at me.....
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Full songq
captured this kingfisher in full song over the lake
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Shilloutte
GBH in the early morning light just prior to sunrise sitting on the jetty down at Yorktown beach. I was capturing sunrise when I saw this shot
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Landing 2
seagul sticking tghe landing on a piling out on the river
In the breeze
You can see the tuft of hair on the back of the head and the chest hairs blosing in the wind. It was cold and the the wind was gusting to 21. I caught him perched on the bridge rail I take to cross the lake
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Blowin g
A shot up close. I was able to get reall close before he spooked and flew off.. You can see the wind tufting his head hair and the chest hair
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Suspended
I captured this one suspended between his jaws as he/she was trying to get a bit from this holly tree
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wing spread
merganser duck with a full wing spread comng in fro a landing at the lake
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Backwinging
doing the final approach for the landing on the water
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motoring
I caught this pair just motoring across the lake in fromt of me when I poped out from the lookoput point
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Crusing
this pair was just crusing in the middle of the lake
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wing spread
I really liked the wing spread and details of this one here
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Lunch!!
Right place, right time. Caught this kingfisher with a fish in the mouth]
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Flicker?
I chased this guy around for about 40 min. I hear him a lot and today I got a good shot of him. I think this is a flicker?
Eye stare
I was getting the stare from this belted kingfisher
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Group in the water
a group of hoodies sitting in the lake just playing in the water
perched
Eagle just perched on this tree and just sitting here. Not moving for anything. At the max reach for me. 600mm in crop mode
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escape
captured this comarant taking off on the lake. I was doing landsacpes so 1/320 @ f/4 was my setting. Got great motion blur on the wings
wing movement
another from the group I shot. I got ~ 54 from the takeoff bunch
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kickback
full song on takeoff another from that batch @ 1/320 sec. 1/2000 would have been better
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wing blur
Nice wing blur action with the rear splash back
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Buzzed. I walked around that group of herons and seaguls and this woodpecker flew right out in front of me. I had just enouf time to follow him through 3 tree to capture this shot
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Contemplatition
Just sitting here think about what to do and what comes next
