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 was driving out by the lake with my camera looking for birds. I pulled over to the side of the road next to the lake and hopped to see if there were any birds and I didn’t see any on the water, but I looked up and saw an osprey and quickly started shooting.… Read More Ospreys Carrying Things
It’s December and you know what that means – it is sorta like fall here for a couple of weeks. Anyway, I went to the lake to shoot wildlife but they have had the park open for deer hunting during the week and all the deer were either hiding or in someone’s freezer. So, I… Read More Fall
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
Another sunrise at the wildlife refuge. And another sunrise without much in the way of clouds. It’s a pretty good hike up to this location but it is my favorite location for dawn. Half the time I wake up well before 5:30 AM anyway (thank you recent development of insomnia), so there was not much… Read More Sunrise and Stumps
Lately I have been thinking about making a personal project out of shooting deer at Inks Lake State Park. There are a lot of deer there and I usually see them at dusk when I am hiking back to my truck, but not during the daytime hours. There are also a few deer blinds that… Read More My Deer Friends
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
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