The Ghost of a Hummingbird for the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Spooky.
Tag: female
Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Line-up.
This is my contribution to the Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Line-up.
I had a few ideas for the challenge before thinking of this photo.
A female Common Merganser with a line of young behind her.
A Photo a Week Challenge: What’s For Dinner.
My contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: What’s For Dinner.
Fish.
Apple.
Poppy seeds.
Bugs.
Fish, again.
Caterpillar.
Profile
A female Wilson’s Phalarope in profile.
Middle Quill Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada.
My One Word Sunday contribution.
Cosmic Photo Challenge: An Anime-Ted Life!
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: An Anime-Ted Life!
My first thought was animated wildlife, that is wildlife doing something. The first couple of photos I picked for the challenge were bird species from Saskatchewan so I decided to restrict my selection to birds photographed in Saskatchewan.
A male Ruddy Duck displays to a female.
A preening Marbled Godwit.
A Killdeer having a good stretch.
A singing male Red-winged Blackbird.
A Black Tern feeding over a roadside marsh.
Mating House Sparrows.
Throwback Thursday travels back to Cheshire, England in the late 1980s.
I was photographing garden birds using a shed as a hide. I had buried an offcut of butyl rubber pond liner in the ground to create a natural looking puddle so the birds could drink and bath in the water.
I spotted this pair of House Sparrows mating in the hedge and swung the camera around to get shots of the behaviour. The photo was published in BBC Wildlife magazine some time later.
For the Love Of…..
Bird Photography.
This week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge is For The Love Of..….
After rejecting the first couple of ideas for the challenge I thought about some of the various situations I have been in photographing birds.
A young male Rose-breasted Grosbeak in the rain in Ontario, Canada. The camera and lens was covered to keep the rain off but the photographer wasn’t.
A male Common Kingfisher photographed from a small, cramped and hot canvas hide (blind) in Cheshire, England.
A Bohemian Waxwing photographed at -30°C in Saskatchewan, Canada.
An American White Pelican with a large fish in its pouch. Photographed while sitting in the water to keep cool on a hot and very humid day in Saskatchewan, Canada.
A female Common Merganser with a youngster on her back. Taken in Ontario, Canada while being swarmed and bitten by hundreds of mosquitoes.
A male White-breasted Nuthatch photographed in Saskatchewan, Canada. Another -30°C day with some light snow falling this time.
A portrait of a female Wilson’s Phalarope taken while lying in sand mixed with wildfowl poop on the shoreline of a section of Little Quill Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada.
