Ospreys are a close relative of hawks and are sometimes called fish-hawks. They almost exclusively hunt and eat fish, rarely being seen very far from a waterway. Many of the sources I have read suggests that they don’t live in central Texas, or that they just migrate through and are mainly in Texas during the… Read More Ospreys
Being a bored person with a camera on a holiday Monday morning, I headed down to the fish hatchery to find birds to shoot. The birds love to hang out here for one reason or another and they are easy to find and photograph. Most of the birds are relatively tolerant of people as well,… Read More Scenes at the Fish Hatchery
One day I was walking through a park and saw several ducks up in a tree. I thought this was a bit odd and later learned that these were black-bellied whistling ducks. Since then, I have seen them around but not very often. A few days ago when driving home from work I saw them… Read More Black-Bellied Whistling Ducks
It was a warm summer morning in February and I went to the city park at sunrise with my camera – this is usually a good time and place to find birds as they love the pond. I guess the only people goofy enough to go the pond at sunrise on a Saturday morning are… Read More Great White Egrets
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
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