Viera Wetlands

kgarrett11

It has been a while since I last posted. I have been pretty busy. Last weekend I took the 2 hour trip down to the wetlands. I got a few good ones (I think anyhow) but nothing great. Let me know what you think.

#1 Taken with a Nikon D3 300mm VR with a 1.7TC


#2


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#4


#5 I need some help with this one. I'm not sure what kind of hawk this is.


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#8

IraRunyan

Nice shots, especialy the Sandhill Crane shots.
Your hawk in #5 is a young Red Shouldered Hawk. As he gets older the blotches on his belly and chest will go away to be replaced by a wavy red/orange line pattern.

kgarrett11

IraRunyan wrote:

Nice shots, especialy the Sandhill Crane shots.
Your hawk in #5 is a young Red Shouldered Hawk. As he gets older the blotches on his belly and chest will go away to be replaced by a wavy red/orange line pattern.

Thanks, that's what I thought it was but he didn't match any of the pictures in the books that I have.

Maestro

I love the sandie and snowys and the last one with the kingfisher on that big palm stump is nice!

dlplumer

Nice set, and there is that Kingfisher that Harry had so much trouble capturing

kgarrett11

Maestro wrote:

I love the sandie and snowys and the last one with the kingfisher on that big palm stump is nice!

Thanks, I was happy with the snowys.

kgarrett11

dlplumer wrote:

Nice set, and there is that Kingfisher that Harry had so much trouble capturing

Thanks, and I have to thank Harry for introducing me to the wetlands last year.

PrescottPhotog

kgarrett11 wrote:

It has been a while since I last posted. I have been pretty busy. Last weekend I took the 2 hour trip down to the wetlands.

Your Snowy's are great, especially the one that looks like it's tiptoeing.
The Kingfisher is also very nice.. I've been chasing one for 2 years.

kgarrett11

PrescottPhotog wrote:

Your Snowy's are great, especially the one that looks like it's tiptoeing.
The Kingfisher is also very nice.. I've been chasing one for 2 years.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

bfjr

Grrrrrrrrr the KF he still eludes me

Nice place nice Set

kgarrett11

bfjr wrote:

Grrrrrrrrr the KF he still eludes me

Nice place nice Set

Thanks, there were a couple of them that day but this was the only one where I could get a good shot.

Ric Grupe

The hawk and the kingfisher! thumb

kgarrett11

Ric Grupe wrote:

The hawk and the kingfisher! thumb

Thanks Ric. It could have been sharper but I was handholding a 300mm f2.8 VR with a 1.7 TC and this picture is heavly cropped.

Harryb

Good set keith. The wetlands have been slower this year but they still provide many photo ops.

SavingFlorida

Actually I think number 5 is a Broad Winged Hawk. I got shots of the juvenile RedTailed (posted on my untamed nature group) but several people got shots of your bird, close up. The chest streaking is different. We don't see Broad Winged too often here so it's controversial..