From Bosque

vandana

Went to Bosque NWR, NM fort he first time this weekend. It's quite an amazing place; 've never seen sandhill cranes this close before !
Some pics from Bosque -









a landing-



Some snow geese too - but I couldn't manage to get decent pics of those - they're so white, I kept overexposing them:scratch I need to practice more white birds photography like those snowy egrets !



and a i'm not exactly sure what bird -



thanks for looking !

Osprey Whisperer

Some nice captures, Vandana. Especially like the 1st dual CIF shot.

MM

4labs

excellent, all of them! Thnxs for sharing.

pathfinder

Lovely shots of the sandhill cranes. They get noisy as they warm up in the morning sunshine, and they sometimes get rowdy too.

Nice warm New Mexcian sunlight.

I hope to get back again for a couple days this winter yet.

JCDoss

That landing sequence is just stellar! Very well done!!

Your unknown bird looks like a bittern. (Could be a night heron. Nah... )

gus

Beautiful afternoon colour Vandana Well done.

Harryb

Marvelous captures Vandana. The light in Bosque is amazing. Its one of those places that are on my "must go" list.

bfjr

Beautiful place to shoot, lucky you and well done
A must for me someday as well

ginger_55

Nice Vandana, very nice!

It must have been more than exciting.

I love flocks of birds, never have captured them very well.

And your lighting is wonderful.

ginger

Thusie

Super shots, love the landing

Trish323

Fantastic Captures, Vandana

windoze

all very nice captures!!!. you had a great shooting session!!!


troy

vandana

thank you so much everybody !
It was a bright and sunny Christmas day - high of 70 I think ! Bosque is really amazing - the birds are much more friendly and close than any other place, and the lighting is quite perfect. You should all try to come - it's very 'satisfying' ! I believe folks try to coincide trips with the full moon to get those sandhills with the moon pics - but I'm sure there'll be a lot of tripod action on that flight deck !
Pathfinder - I saw some of your cool pics at your site ! they never seemed to have a brawl when I was around ! there's some angry looking pics there !!thumbMy sunrise was a little anticlimactic, before i knew it , those snow geese took off en masse and i kept staring - no pic !
JCDoss - yes, you're right - it's a american Bittern - i googled that :)thanx

Dee

New Mexico
I'd like to spend a little time there... haven't very much. I'll have google Bosque to see where it is.

Not too far from home near Sacramento is supposed to be a park that is similar for bird migration. You'd think I'd get myself up there wouldn't you! Wonder if a 200 zoom is worth much there? :

vandana

thanks Dee! Bosque is about 1.5 hrs south of Albuquerque - closest town to stay is a place called Socorro. It is a great place to be this time of the year = Nov to Feb or March is when the sandhill cranes /snow geese come over here..
Sacramento - i'm sure you can do at least some good with a 200mm - depending on how close the birds come. Bosque was do-able with a Nikkor 300mm, some along with a TC 2x. Some other places i went to in NM - u need some serious glass

Rohirrim

Lovely Sandhills. I especially like the silhouette. Makes me want to take a drive to Bosque tomorrow