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Great Blue Heron up close and not so close

By |2024-03-24T08:58:16-06:00August 26th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Pinellas County|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

One December morning in 2008 I was sitting in the sand at Fort De Soto County Park's north beach in Florida when a Great Blue Heron came up and perched on a driftwood stump that had washed up onto the shore.

Great Blue Heron Portraits from Florida and Utah

By |2021-08-19T07:01:56-06:00July 18th, 2013|Categories: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Great Blue Herons, Pinellas County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

In Florida I found it easy to get close up images of Great Blue Herons because quite often they are used to the presence of humans but here in Utah that isn't the case and Great Blue Herons are sort of skittish.

Springtime California Gull Portrait

By |2021-12-11T08:08:12-07:00April 12th, 2012|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Birds, California Gulls, Davis County, Portraits, Utah, Wildflowers|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Yesterday while I was out photographing Long-billed Curlews this California Gull (Larus californicus) flew in so close that all I could do was take portraits of the bird.

Buck Pronghorn with Oddly Misshapened Horns

By |2020-05-15T19:35:15-06:00October 8th, 2011|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Pronghorn, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This October 3rd I spotted this pronghorn for the third or fourth time in this past year only this time I had good light, the buck wasn't far away and because it is rut season he was only paying attention to the does and other bucks in the area.

Shorebirds: Long-billed Curlew juvenile

By |2021-04-07T04:31:40-06:00July 3rd, 2011|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Long-billed Curlews, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Sometimes I just feel so lucky being a bird photographer. Not only do I get to be outside in nature when I am photographing, but I get nice surprises too like when this Long-billed Curlew juvenile approached near enough to get head shots of it.

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