Thanks to the friendly folks who came to Shoreline Park before sunrise
last Saturday for my photography field seminar Where The Birds
Are.
The coots were milling down by Shoreline Lake. Going down onto the
uncovered lakebed put me at eye-level:
http://tinyurl.com/hfc2z
One of them stared me down:
http://tinyurl.com/hs4b4
Next we stopped by the Hummer-bush. The male Anna's Hummingbird was
patrolling his territory, but I was more interested in the nearby
golden-crowned sparrows. The light was warm, but this guy was cold so he
fluffed up:
http://tinyurl.com/f7yoh
Two of us seemed to spook a black-tailed jackrabbit. But it may have
been this red-tailed hawk some of the seminar attendees found behind us.
He looked like he grew on the tree:
http://tinyurl.com/hm6or
American avocets swept the slough in their constant search for food.
While everyone else took the front-lit picture, I went for silhouettes:
http://tinyurl.com/jvjbg
The light was very hard by this time - too much contrast - so we
retraced our steps to the pier in Shoreline Lake's west end. There are
usually a few ring-billed and western gulls perched there, and today was
no exception. One of the first-year ring-billed gulls got very
bored:
http://tinyurl.com/qdrl9
All comments welcome.
Mark Bohrer
Mountain and Desert Photography
www.mountain-and-desert.com
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