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Theyer Wetlands – Belfair, Washington
October 19, 2009
This lone female was hanging out by herself. Maybe the male got blasted. There are duck hunter blinds at the fringes of the wetlands.
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Theyer Wetlands – Belfair, Washington
October 19, 2009
It was a rather slow day for birding, but this friendly little sparrow provided an opportunity.
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Theyer Wetlands – Belfair, Washington
October 19, 2009
Again, it is not always about the bird, but the whole habitat setting.
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Vaughn Bay, Washington
December 21, 2008
I’m not used to seeing a Killdeer this time of year. We don’t get very much snow in Puget Sound, but this was an exception. This poor little bird sat in this spot on our sea wall all day. I don’t think he was a happy camper.
BTW, this is the last 2008 photo from the LOST files and now I’ll get back to 2009.
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Nisqually National Wildlilfe Refuge
October 18, 2008
This is a duck I don’t see that often.
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Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
October 18, 2008
Sometimes it’s more about where the bird is than the bird!
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Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
October 18, 2008
One good thing about digiscoping is the ability to get really close portraits.
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Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
October 18, 2008
Surprisingly, a digiscoping setup can come in handy when you want to take a close-up. The only difference is that you are actually quite a distance from the subject.
The location of this photo is near the spot where I took some terrific Wood Duck photos a few years ago. I always check out this location in case the ducks are there again, but as the years go by I realize that I was very fortunate to get those photos.
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Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
October 18, 2008
Here is another digiscoped photo from this day of birding. It was a long way from me, so the photo is grainy and a bit blurred.
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Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
October 18, 2008
This is a digiscoped photo of this Peregrine’s favorite tree. I couldn’t get very close, so my system was stretching its limits and the photo came out quite grainy. This is the first of a few photos that I found from 2008. They were all digiscoped using my Nikon P4, an 82mm ED Nikon Fieldscope with a 30x wide angle eyepiece and tripod.