Introducing for the very first time!!!!

HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
edited May 8, 2006 in Wildlife

:clap The new 2006 Wood Stork model :lynnma
I first saw the hatchling a couple of weeks ago
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one week later

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Its not easy getting good shots of the wood stork nests because in the pecking order at the rookery they are at the top meaning they roost in the tops of the tree. The great egrets come next and the tri-color herons and snowy and cattle egrets get the lower branches.
Harry
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2006
    Well you've done well here, really some ugly babes :wow rolleyes1.gif
    almost a shame your work so Pristine, a little motion/focus blur might have helped rolleyes1.gif :lol

    Congrats on the find and thanks for sharing thumb.gif
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  • livinginozlivinginoz Registered Users Posts: 497 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2006
    nice shots. the babies look almost prehistoric, don't they?
    laurie in rural minnesota

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  • Osprey WhispererOsprey Whisperer Registered Users Posts: 3,803 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2006
    Well done Harry. I've not seen the wood stork juvies before. Interesting looking chicks. Not "hot" like the osprey...but interesting. :D
    Mike McCarthy

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  • BIG BROTHERBIG BROTHER Registered Users Posts: 268 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2006
    Awsome, Fantastic shots Harry! The babies are ugly, but look what they become! As you know I was there about 10 days ago - so I am wondering did you use a boom truck to get these shots?!?!
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    Jim
  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2006
    very nice thumb.gif now me --not going to say anything about motion blur but just for the babies rolleyes1.gif
    Jeff W

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2006
    bfjr wrote:
    Well you've done well here, really some ugly babes :wow rolleyes1.gif
    almost a shame your work so Pristine, a little motion/focus blur might have helped rolleyes1.gif :lol

    Congrats on the find and thanks for sharing thumb.gif

    If the truth be known most babies are a tad ugly when they are born. naughty.gif
    Thanks for stopping by.
    Harry
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  • AngeloAngelo Super Moderators Posts: 8,937 moderator
    edited May 4, 2006
    very very nice Harry clap.gif
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited May 4, 2006
    Harryb wrote:
    If the truth be known most babies are a tad ugly when they are born. naughty.gif
    Thanks for stopping by.


    Yeah but these particular babies don't seem to grow out of it !! :lol
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2006
    livinginoz wrote:
    nice shots. the babies look almost prehistoric, don't they?

    Thanks Laurie. If you want prehistoric you have to look at the great egret chicks. They could have played roles in Jurrasic park. :D
    Harry
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2006
    Harry, how could you have guessed that I would see this post?

    Cool babies.

    I wonder when they will arrive here.........

    ginger

    Snowys? Funny our snowys' nests are behind other trees. I don't think I have ever seen a snowy chick, and I know I haven't seen a Wood Stork chick. I haven't seen a Wood Stork lately! They are nesting somewhere here. I do see the Snowy's. I can photograph them, just not their nests.
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  • ThusieThusie Registered Users Posts: 1,818 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2006
    Cool shots!
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,953 moderator
    edited May 5, 2006
    Very nice stuff Harry!

    Ian
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  • riddim_makerriddim_maker Registered Users Posts: 1,835 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2006
    So Harry, if the wood stork nests on the top branches of tree (and apparently these trees are not a meter or two in hight) how did you make up there? Did you rent a "cherry picker" for the day? rolleyes1.gif
    BTW, great series as asual clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif
    Russ
  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2006
    Did they name him........Harry!?!rolleyes1.gif

    Extra cool. thumb.gif
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2006
    Bird Man Photographer wrote:
    Well done Harry. I've not seen the wood stork juvies before. Interesting looking chicks. Not "hot" like the osprey...but interesting. :D

    Thanks Mike. I like going for the rarer find as opposed to something common like an osprey. :D :smack
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2006
    BIG BROTHER wrote:
    Awsome, Fantastic shots Harry! The babies are ugly, but look what they become! As you know I was there about 10 days ago - so I am wondering did you use a boom truck to get these shots?!?!
    _________:D clap.gifclap.gif
    Jim

    Thanks Jim. Those chicks do have a lot to live up to. rolleyes1.gif

    I just used my long glass to get to those nests.
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2006
    jwear wrote:
    very nice thumb.gif now me --not going to say anything about motion blur but just for the babies rolleyes1.gif

    Thank you Jeff. I think they are kind of cute.
    Harry
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    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2006
    Angelo wrote:
    very very nice Harry clap.gif

    Thanks Angelo. wave.gif
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2006
    bfjr wrote:
    Yeah but these particular babies don't seem to grow out of it !! :lol

    I can say the same for lots of non-wood stork babies. naughty.gif
    Harry
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    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2006
    Great Stuff Harry.

    What a unique bird. It is the only one that I can think of that is better looking as a chick than it is as an adult.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2006
    ginger_55 wrote:
    Harry, how could you have guessed that I would see this post?

    Cool babies.

    I wonder when they will arrive here.........

    ginger

    Snowys? Funny our snowys' nests are behind other trees. I don't think I have ever seen a snowy chick, and I know I haven't seen a Wood Stork chick. I haven't seen a Wood Stork lately! They are nesting somewhere here. I do see the Snowy's. I can photograph them, just not their nests.

    Thanks Ginger. We will send some wood storks your way soon. Of course, there will be the standard fee. rolleyes1.gif

    The snowy eggs have started to hatch here. Right now they are too far back and tehya re too small to get a decent shot but I'm hoping to catch some decent shots next week.
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 6, 2006
    Thusie wrote:
    Cool shots!

    Thanks Thusie.
    Harry
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    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2006
    ian408 wrote:
    Very nice stuff Harry!

    Ian

    Thanks Ian.
    Harry
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    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2006
    riddim_maker wrote:
    So Harry, if the wood stork nests on the top branches of tree (and apparently these trees are not a meter or two in hight) how did you make up there? Did you rent a "cherry picker" for the day? rolleyes1.gif
    BTW, great series as asual clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif

    Thanks Russ. There was a reason why I spent all that $ on a 500mm lens. :D
    Harry
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    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited May 8, 2006
    Ric Grupe wrote:
    Did they name him........Harry!?!rolleyes1.gif

    Extra cool. thumb.gif


    Thanks Ric. Thye would never name their chick "Harry", I'm too ugly. rolleyes1.gif
    Harry
    http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
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