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Back Home!

May 12

I am now back home from my 9-day trip to Northern Ohio. Had a great time photographing all of the migrating passerines at Magee Marsh, Crane Creek and the rest of the hot-spots along Lake Erie. I recorded a total of 25 new photo birds and much better shots of many of the birds I already had.

Now to get ready for our trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos! We leave this Friday.

Some new photos toward the end of the trip I have not posted yet:

Painted Turtle
Painted Turtle

Black-capped Chickadee
Black-capped Chickadee

American Robin
American Robin

Black-throated Blue Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler

Gray Catbird
Gray Catbird

American Woodcock
American Woodcock

Wood Thrush
Wood Thrush

Great Black-backed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull

 

Posted by on May 12, 2008 in Photography Adventures

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Photos from Crane Creek I missed….

May 07

Was just spending a bit more time going through other photos I took last weekend and realized I had skipped over quite a few good ones! I shall share some with you here:

Magnolia Warbler
Magnolia Warbler

Baltimore Oriole
Baltimore Oriole

Blue Gray Gnatcatcher
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher

Chestnut-sided Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler

 

Posted by on May 7, 2008 in Photography Adventures

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Mentor/Painesville, Ohio

May 06

Since I’m staying in Painesville for the week, I decided to check out some nearby spots – Headlands Dunes and Mentor Marsh.

At Headlands Dunes I had mostly Ring-billed and Herring Gulls and few other common local stuff. Mentor Marsh was pretty much dead this morning. I did pick up a new photo-bird:

Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker

 

Posted by on May 6, 2008 in Photography Adventures

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Crane Creek, Ohio

May 05

It’s been a heck of a weekend and I haven’t had time to post any updates until now. Due to air traffic delays into Chicago O’Hare airport, I didn’t get to my hotel near Crane Creek until 3AM EST on Friday. I woke up around 6AM (only getting about 3 hours of sleep) and headed out to Crane Creek. It was pretty stormy all day, with a couple of downpours lasting in excess of 45 minutes. I just threw a tarp over myself and my camera equipment and hoped it wouldn’t last too long!

Despite Sunday being beautiful and sunny, Saturday was MUCH more productive. But, over the course of the weekend I still got 18 new photo birds:

  • American Woodcock
  • Black-throated Green Warbler
  • Blue-headed Vireo
  • Blue-winged Warbler
  • Cape May Warbler
  • Common Grackle
  • Gray Catbird
  • Hooded Warbler
  • Least Flycatcher
  • Louisiana Waterthrush
  • Ovenbird
  • Palm Warbler
  • Prothonotary Warbler
  • Scarlet Tanager
  • Swainson’s Thrush
  • Veery
  • Wood Thrush
  • Yellow-throated Vireo

    • I’m going to be in Cleveland for the week but I hope to get some other photography in during the morning hours this week until I get back out to Crane Creek on Saturday. In the meantime, here are some of my highlight shots from the weekend:


    Prothonotary Warbler

    Hooded Warbler

    House Wren

    Louisiana Waterthrush

    Blue Gray Gnatcatcher

    Swainson's Thrush

    Veery

    Wood Thrush

    Ovenbird

    Palm Warbler

    Yellow-rumped Warbler

    Black-throated Green Warbler

    Blue-headed Vireo

    Dunlin

     

    Posted by on May 5, 2008 in Photography Adventures

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    Three New Photo Birds…

    April 29

    I’ve spent the past couple of days at Ballona. I figured I’d get my fill of it before I leave for Crane Creek, Ohio this Friday. And by the title of this post, you could say I had pretty good luck at that. I heard Barbara Johnson had found a Solitary Sandpiper Monday morning so I decided to try my luck for it that afternoon. I managed to find it amongst lots of Short-billed Dowitchers, Western Sandpipers and Least Sandpipers:

    Solitary Sandpiper

    And today, I finally managed to track down the ever elusive Red-throated Loon. I only saw him one other time at Ballona Creek…as he was flying away. This time he was extremely cooperative, swam right toward me with perfect lighting:

    Red-throated Loon

    As I was photographing the Red-throated Loon, a single Clark’s Grebe floated by me with two other Western Grebe’s making that photo bird #3!

    Clark's Grebe

    Not a new photo bird but I also got some great shots of a Wandering Tattler and Black Turnstone that were creeping along the rocks as I was photographing the Red-throated Loon:

    Wandering Tattler

    Black Turnstone

    A great way to start the week! I can only hope I will have the same luck this week while I’m at Crane Creek….

     

    Posted by on April 29, 2008 in Photography Adventures

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