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Harryb · May 19, 2005

Hi you'll

A few BIFs taken during the last jaunt up to the rookery

a wood stork

a couple of cattle egrets

and some great egrets

ginger_55 · May 19, 2005

Great photos, Harry. I thought they were going to be the babies......

I am going to Magnolia this afternoon, unless something stops me. I am afraid my one nest of babies, they will be in college by the time I get back. In my photos other nests still do have eggs, had to do the photo to see the eggs.

I bought a bird book. A SC one, hard to choose, almost went for peterson, but there was some local stuff.

anyway, i read about one of those egrets, I think the snowy one, that their babies are not born all together, and often the last one born starves.

Other books did not include that info. it is not in my book, but thought it was interesting.

also read about the woodstork, of which you have a GREAT photo above. it doesn't live here except in the summer and it is not a very abundant bird. so many types of birds have come back, and i am sure it has, but not in great quantities.

i would love a woodstork photo. am trying to hurry with all now, so that i can leave when i feed the dogs.

g

Lucky Hack · May 19, 2005

Harryb wrote:

Hi you'll

A few BIFs taken during the last jaunt up to the rookery

a wood stork

Man thats an ugly sucker!

I like the way the light shows through the wings.

hoping this message finds you well -Ian

Harryb · May 19, 2005

Hiya Ginger,

Good luck wth your shooting.

You're right about the eggs not hatching at the same exact time. Both the great egrets and the snowy will lay around 3 eggs. The youngest one is usually pecked to death or pushed out of the nest by the two older chicks.

This has been a bad year for the woodstorks. Thet are endangered due to the loss of their natural habitat.The building boom in southern Florida has been disastrous for them. I just got word that the woodstork nests at Ding Darling have failed (5.000 -10,000) nests. The water levels dropped so the woodstorks couldn't feed and they had to abandon their nests.

Seamus · May 19, 2005

Hey, Harry,
The second and third ones are perfect

,

Shay.

4labs · May 19, 2005

The first one is really cool Harry I have never seen or heard of that one before.Tho it does look a little like my MIL

MuskyDude · May 19, 2005

Ahhh, now that's bif done just right!

Sad about those storks Harry, :cry I hope they can rebound somehow...

AJ

Harryb · May 19, 2005

Lucky Hack wrote:

Man thats an ugly sucker! I like the way the light shows through the wings.

hoping this message finds you well -Ian

He sure ain't the prettiest bird in the swamp.

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment.

bfjr · May 19, 2005

Harryb wrote:

Hiya Ginger,

Good luck wth your shooting.

You're right about the eggs not hatching at the same exact time. Both the great egrets and the snowy will lay around 3 eggs. The youngest one is usually pecked to death or pushed out of the nest by the two older chicks.

This has been a bad year for the woodstorks. Thet are endangered due to the loss of their natural habitat.The building boom in southern Florida has been disastrous for them. I just got word that the woodstork nests at Ding Darling have failed (5.000 -10,000) nests. The water levels dropped so the woodstorks couldn't feed and they had to abandon their nests.

Great set all of them, really like the double BIF

But what you said above, so true, happening here too :cry
The only thing I can do is keep shooting them when I can who knows maybe only way to see (not including zoos) in few generations, if that long. Anyway enough rant. I'm going try find some birds tonight, meselft

Harryb · May 19, 2005

shay wrote:

Hey, Harry,
The second and third ones are perfect ,

Shay.

Hey Shay,

Thanks for the kind comment. Its funny when I first looked at the 3rd shot I almost culled it out because I was so ticked at myself for cutting off the one wing's wing tips.

Fortunately I gave it a second look.

Harry

Harryb · May 19, 2005

4labs wrote:

The first one is really cool Harry I have never seen or heard of that one before.Tho it does look a little like my MIL

Thanks but it can't be your MIL unless my ex-wife had a daughter that I don't know about.

Harryb · May 20, 2005

MuskyDude wrote:

Ahhh, now that's bif done just right!

Sad about those storks Harry, :cry I hope they can rebound somehow...

AJ

Hey AJ,

Thanks. Fortunately the east coast storks seem to be doing ok. Problem is that the Ding Darling colony was a large one and teh wood storks habitat is disappearing especially in Southern Florida.

Harry

jwear · May 20, 2005

Harryb wrote:

Hey AJ,

Thanks. Fortunately the east coast storks seem to be doing ok. Problem is that the Ding Darling colony was a large one and teh wood storks habitat is disappearing especially in Southern Florida.

Harry

shoot them in the wild as much as you can ----soon we will only have the zooo great set Harry you do keep that bar up there don't you

Harryb · May 20, 2005

jwear wrote:

shoot them in the wild as much as you can ----soon we will only have the zooo great set Harry you do keep that bar up there don't you

Hey Jeff,

Thanks and I hope our children and grandchildren will have the same photo ops.

gus · May 20, 2005

Your stuff is always worth looking at harry but that 3rd one is

Gus

wxwax · May 20, 2005

Lovely. BIFs are better with context, IMHO, so the background really helps.

Harryb · May 20, 2005

Humungus wrote:

Your stuff is always worth looking at harry but that 3rd one is

Gus

Thanks a lot Gus. It goes to show how little I know. Everybody seems to respond to #3 and that's the one shot in the set that I almost culled out.

Harryb · May 21, 2005

wxwax wrote:

Lovely. BIFs are better with context, IMHO, so the background really helps.

I agree Sid but when they are in the sky it can be hard to get any background.

I can do it the rookery but in other locations it can be a tad harder.

tmlphoto · May 21, 2005

Nice set as usual Harry. That wood stork is a very interesting looking bird.

Steve Cavigliano · May 21, 2005

Very nice Harry

Man, you have been knockin these birds dead for the last few weeks. Each of your threads have had some great shots inside

I really think that you need to shoot some flowers or insects for awhile. Just to give us slowpokes (who have been saddled with lousy weather) a chance to catch up :lol

J/K buddy

Super set as usual.

Steve

Harryb · May 21, 2005

tmlphoto wrote:

Nice set as usual Harry. That wood stork is a very interesting looking bird.

Thanks Tom. The wood stork is kind of ugly and a challenge to shoot (white body, dark head :uhoh ) but I always find them interesting too.

GREAPER · May 21, 2005

Great set Harry, asteically (sp?) I like the third one best but the wood stork is a more unussual shot.

All keepers as always.

Brian

Harryb · May 21, 2005

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

Very nice Harry

Man, you have been knockin these birds dead for the last few weeks. Each of your threads have had some great shots inside

I really think that you need to shoot some flowers or insects for awhile. Just to give us slowpokes (who have been saddled with lousy weather) a chance to catch up :lol

J/K buddy Super set as usual.

Steve

Hey Steve,

Thanks. That rookery is just a gold mine of photo ops.

Harryb · May 22, 2005

GREAPER wrote:

Great set Harry, asteically (sp?) I like the third one best but the wood stork is a more unussual shot.

All keepers as always.

Brian

Thanks Brian. I'n beginning to warm up to that third pic myself.

ehughes · May 22, 2005

Very cool Harry, I like the 3rd one as well, how far away were you ?

Ed

Kirwin · May 22, 2005

Bif master Harry!:): All excellent.

Harryb · May 22, 2005

Ed

ehughes wrote:

Very cool Harry, I like the 3rd one as well, how far away were you ?

Ed

Hey Ed,

Thanks, since I shot it at 250mm I would say that it was within 10 yards of me.

Harryb · May 22, 2005

Kirwin wrote:

Bif master Harry!:): All excellent.

Thanks Kirwin and its always a pleasure hearing from you.

Mike-Photos · May 24, 2005

Hi Harry...
This one is my favorite:

Harryb wrote:

and some great egrets

Unlike you, I'm afraid I've had it with STF, and I won't be posting there anymore. It's a real pity, I learnt more there than from anywhere else. I still participate in KTF, though.

Harryb · May 24, 2005

Mike-Photos wrote:

This one is my favorite:

Unlike you, I'm afraid I've had it with STF, and I won't be posting there anymore. It's a real pity, I learnt more there than from anywhere else. I still participate in KTF, though.

Hey Mike,

I have to laugh because that shot seems to be the most popular of the batch and that's theone I came closest to culling out (the wing tips were clipped).

I can't blame you. I'm ready to leave but its like a car crash you know its bad taste to look but you just have to look.

Mike-Photos · May 24, 2005

Wing Tips...

Harryb wrote:

Hey Mike,

I have to laugh because that shot seems to be the most popular of the batch and that's theone I came closest to culling out (the wing tips were clipped).

I can't blame you. I'm ready to leave but its like a car crash you know its bad taste to look but you just have to look.

I was aware of the clipping, but, firstly, the photo has real movement in it, and secondly, you can't expect there to never be some clipping sometimes. In fact, it sort of empahsizes the movement for me.

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