I went to the fish hatchery Sunday morning to practice wildlife photography. The Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery is run by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and is open to the public. I was worried that it might be closed due to the current situation of extreme incompetence of our Congress, but the gates… Read More Six Birds
Just went to the fish hatchery to shoot photos of birds. Usually plenty of geese and ducks around. The Canada Geese are more tolerant of a photographer than most of the ducks, so they get to be the stars of the photoshoot. I don’t have a lot of interesting photographic techniques to talk about here,… Read More Just some Geese
On my trip down to Aransas National Wildlife Refuge I took photos of so many different species of birds, I decided to break it into two blog posts to cover the highlights. In the previous post, I covered several birds that I saw at the refuge, but I also saw many around the town of… Read More Gone Birding, Part 2
Winter is a great time to see birds on the Texas coast. There are many birds that spend the winter in the mild coastal weather as well as the many birds that live there year round. I have a desire to up my wildlife photography game and I recently bought a Nikon Z6III, which has… Read More Gone Birding, Part 1
I have been trying to practice a little wildlife photography recently. And where I live, that pretty much means birds or deer. So, I walked around the refuge on a cloudy Sunday afternoon and hoped for a little light to make it through the clouds. I chose the Balcones Canyonlands Wildlife Refuge because at this… Read More Painted Bunting and Friends
Some Bewick’s Wrens took up residence in a decorative birdhouse on my back porch. These little birds are not very bothered by me and flutter back and forth as I sit there near their birdhouse. They occasionally sit and study me for a second to be sure that I am not a cat or something,… Read More A Wren Family
Saturday was a sunny and breezy cool day so I went to the lake. I figured I would hike around the shore and shoot (photos of) water birds and then hang out for sunset and hope for a cloud or two. This is a good time of year to shoot water fowl around here as… Read More Sun and Fowl
I’m in the mid-summer photographic doldrums, but on most days I carry my small camera and a lens around on my walks through the city park near my house. I do often see wildlife out there that might be fun to shoot. In one corner of the park I walk by a patch of sunflowers… Read More Find the Goldfinch
If you want to hide and secretly watch the daily life of birds, you probably need a bird blind or a bird costume. If you aren’t up for looking like a Sesame Street character, Inks Lake State Park has a bird blind that you can easily get access to that will enable you to spy… Read More The Shooting Gallery
I wandered around and tried to take some wildlife photos when in Galveston one evening. I thought the sunset might be nice, so I headed down to the bay side of the island to see what was there. In the muddy flats along the bay were a bunch of Roseate Spoonbills, so I crept over… Read More Some Galveston Wildlife
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