Earlier this year I started taking pictures of birds in the wild. Sitting still and patience are truly virtues I need to work at...




                 
              
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Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) Missouri. 6/22/2008
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS w/Etube, f5.6, 1/800, ISO 100 		Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) Grand Cayman Island. 4/10/08
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS, f5.6, 1/250, ISO 640		 Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres). Common winter visitor and passage migrant to the Cayman Islands. There is also a non-breeding resident population at the Turtle Farm on Grand Cayman.
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS + 1.4x, f8, 1/200, ISO 100
     
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Osprey (Pandion haliaetus). 6/30/08
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS + 1.4x, f8.0, 1/30, ISO 500		 Osprey (Pandion haliaetus). 6/30/08
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS + 1.4x, f8.0, 1/30, ISO 500		 Osprey (Pandion haliaetus). 6/30/08
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS + 1.4x, f8.0, 1/30, ISO 500
     
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American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) Mississippi river north of St. Louis. 4/27/08
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS +1.4x, f11, 1/500, ISO 100		 Female Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) with chick, Missouri. 6/15/08
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS + 1.4x, f11, 1/400, ISO 100		 Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) Grand Cayman Island. 4/18/2008
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS + 1.4x, f8, 1/250, ISO 320
     
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Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) Missouri. 8/9/08
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS + 1.4x, f8, 1/25, ISO 100		 Obviously a proud parent... Sisters, Oregon. 6/30/08
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS + 1.4x, f8, 1/640, ISO 1000		 Western Pelican (xx) Depo Bay, Oregon. 6/25/08
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS + 1.4x, f9, 1/25, ISO 320
     
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Yellow Warbler (Dendroica petechia)
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS, f5.6, 1/125, ISO 100		 Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) Missouri. 7/5/08
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS + 1.4x, f10, 1/100, ISO 200		 The Eastern Wood Pewee (Contopus virens) Missouri. 5/17/08
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS + 1.4x, f10, 1/320, ISO 200
     
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Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) Grand Cayman Island. 4/18/08
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS + 1.4x, f8, 1/250, ISO 320		   Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) Grand Cayman Island. 4/10/08
Canon D30, 400mm f5.6L UMS + 1.4x, f8, 1/400, ISO 100