Thanks, all, first of all for the bird ID and the link, and secondly for answering my naive question about snapshotting birds in takeoff.
I think that the birds in question are indeed snowy egrets. Interesting; they're new to the area, or at least much more common now. I saw none last year. I first noticed the herons, IIRC, about 2013 or 2014; again, before that, not in evidence. I wonder if climate change (generally, not just here) explains their arrival. Changes in habitat have certainly made the quail go away; they used to be very common 20 years ago. At least 2 sorts hawks are also common here, the most common being the red tailed hawk. I recall how robins started showing up in spring in my parents' backyard some 10 years ago; before then, I'd not seen one. And the long-tailed grackles (?) seem to have appeared and disappeared in the last 6 or 7 or so years. On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 7:58 PM 'Deacon Patrick' via RBW Owners Bunch < rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> wrote: > To add more specifics to answer your question: > > - a 100-200 mm telephoto lens (minimum) and tripod go a long way to making > fruitful a wait in a well chosen hide. These are, of course, unwieldy and > impractical for impromptu shots on a bike. Grin. > > - Short the above, an inexpensive point and shoot camera with image > stabalization and decent telephoto (Canon Elph 180 or 190) are a quickdraw > solution with a reasonable chance of success if kept in a handlebar "feed" > style bag. > > Those are the only two practical suggestions I have. In general, a mobile > phone won't cut it for any but the lucky (or unlucky, if you get too close > to the bear/moose/elk/couger/badger...) encounter with wildlife that pose. > And, sometimes, they do. > > With abandon, > Patrick > > On Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 6:57:55 PM UTC-6, Deacon Patrick wrote: >> >> Hours of patience or dumb luck, neither of which guarantee results other >> than photos that look like proof of bigfoot, which is to say and >> indiscernable blob. That is why I prefer to hunt flowers and trees and snow >> and rain and landscapes. I'm fat and lazy. Grin. I see bald and goalden >> eagles, perigrin, osprey, bats, owles, herons, cranes, song birds of too >> many varieties to fathom, hummingbirds, and many others, and almost never >> try to photograph them. >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> On Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 2:55:37 PM UTC-6, Patrick Moore wrote: >>> >>> >>> 2. You photo experts: how does one catch snapshots of such suddenly >>> appearing subjects without falling over? Instruments, techniques? >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/277f0650-7a02-4ec0-8078-24f04773083fo%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/277f0650-7a02-4ec0-8078-24f04773083fo%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgu4yq%3DcWJip2Lx4KYsyoff-BBRhH2g2q7MFS%3Di-K%3DA1ew%40mail.gmail.com.
