Photos By Shawn Weigelt
June 30, 2008
Carmel, Maine
I took these two shots this evening after a rain shower passed through. The Brown Thrasher’s around the house very rarely come onto our deck, so I quickly grabbed the camera when I found this one drinking out of the little puddles.
Nikon D80 70-300mm VR at 180mm, 1/100sec, ISO 250, f/5.3, hand held (both photos).
Photo By Shawn Weigelt
June 18, 2008
Carmel, Maine
I was looking through my pictures and found this one from back on the 18th. The tail is out of focus but the colors are pretty good so I decided to process and post it.
Nikon D80 70-300mm VR at 300mm, 1/60sec, ISO 250, f/5.6, hand held.
Photos By Shawn Weigelt
June 22, 2008
Rolland F. Perry City Forest
Bangor, Maine
I always used to call these beautiful wildflowers, “lady’s slippers,” though after doing some research online, I believe this one is actually of the species, “Moccasin Flower.” They belong in the orchid (Orchidaceae) family just as true Lady’s Slippers but seem to have some superficial differences. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong. I’m a bird nerd not a horticulturist! Anyway…I found several dozen of these while on my bird walk in the Rolland F. Perry City Forest on the forest floor in a stand of tall White Pines. Most of the flowers I found had already gone by except for this one and a few others. You can still see that this one is on its way out. I decided to try my hand at some macro photography and thought these came out pretty decent.
Nikon D80 70-300mm VR. All photos shot with ISO 200 with varying shutter speeds and focal lengths.
Photo By Shawn Weigelt
June 29, 2008
Carmel, Maine
Blue Jays belong to the scientific family Corvidae along with other jays, magpies, crows, and ravens. A feature of corvids is an inner throat pouch that they use to temporarily store food and other objects. This particular Blue Jay was stuffing its throat pouch so full with sunflower seeds that it couldn’t even close its bill completely! I thought that it was likely caching (storing) the seeds somewhere, or, perhaps, feeding them to its young. If you look carefully you can see a small bulge just below the bill of this bird that indicates the throat pouch is filled with a few seeds.
Nikon D80 70-300mm VR at 185mm, 1/30sec, ISO 250, f/5.3, hand held.
Photo By Shawn Weigelt
June 29, 2008
Carmel, Maine
A decent photo of this little sprite of the forest have pretty much eluded me thus far. I thought this one came out pretty well. The bird looks a little dingy because it had been raining recently.
Nikon D80 70-300mm VR at 300mm, 1/300sec, ISO 250, f/5.6, hand held.
Photo By Shawn Weigelt
June 23, 2008
Carmel, Maine
The Song Sparrows are very skittish in my back yard and seldom give me an opportunity to get a photo. I was fortunate to snap this one before it flew away.
Nikon D80 70-300mm VR at 300mm, 1/200sec, ISO 200, f/5.6, hand held.
Photo By Shawn Weigelt
June 23, 2008
Carmel, Maine
Here is a male American Goldfinch on my back deck. I thought this may have been my best photo of this species so far except for that distracting nail on his perch! Oh, well.
Nikon D80 70-300mm VR at 300mm, 1/250sec, ISO 200, f/5.6, hand held.
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Vaughn Bay – Vaughn, Washington
December 8, 2007
This little guy is a regular in our backyard. Lighting was poor today.
Nikon D80, Tamron 200-500 zoom at 420mm, 1/50 sec, ISO 400, f/6.0, Manfrotto tripod
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Vaughn Bay – Vaughn, Washington
December 8, 2007
This Bufflehead was playing in front of the house.
Nikon D80, Tamron 200-500 zoom at 500mm, 1/1000 sec, ISO 400, f/6.3, Manfrotto tripod
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Foulweather Bluff – Kitsap Peninsula
November 25, 2007
Here is a second set of these birds that came right up to me – very unusual for Sanderlings. They are usually very skiddish.
Nikon D80, Tamron 200-500 zoom at 400mm, 1/800 sec, ISO 400, f/6.0, fallen tree for stability
