Eric - Captured in Pixels

Pelicans

Sunday, 22. November 2009, 04:31:37

In current news, I finally got my telephoto lens back from Canon!

They unstickyed the zoom ring and replaced the power diaphragm unit (aperture). So if I were to get some sunshine, I might be able to post something a bit more current for a change. Even if it is a mourning dove.

Here are some brown pelicans for now. I only wish I could have gotten a picture of one of them diving into the water while they were flying. Their dives looked something like that of WW2 dive bombers, except they didn't pull up.

6 comments

Boat-tailed Grackles

Thursday, 12. November 2009, 01:38:23

Boat-tailed Grackle

These grackles are very unlike the common grackle, in the way that the females are actually kind of pretty. The males still don't look that much different apart from the common grackles fact that they have brown eyes instead of yellow.

Here's a sequence of one eating a snail.

And later in the grass...

Two of the male. They were hiding in trees waiting for people to drop their food as they got it from the counter. The janitors usually beat them to it though.

12 comments

Black Skimmers Pt.1

Monday, 2. November 2009, 02:26:20

Black Skimmer

The Skimmers and their babies were the last birds I took pictures of on Cocoa Beach. The reason is that I didn't notice the them until the last day on the beach, when lifeguards had tapped off the nest site. People still got mobbed by the birds though of course. The careful people like me had only one or two birds fly around them, it was impossible not to upset them. However, the less careful had nearly the colony buzz them.

For size, the chicks are about on par with the sanderlings in the last post.

15 comments

Sanderlings

Monday, 21. September 2009, 03:13:03

sanderling

I'm getting behind in posting, mostly because I haven't figured out how to organize all 1326 photos. So for now, here are two Sanderlings on the Atlantic coast. The difference between the beaches is that the Atlantic Shore has vegetation and the Gulf Shore is clean. Overall the Gulf has much better beaches, but the Atlantic has its rocket launches.

Something I haven't shown up to this point yet is the beach around the birds. I didn't dare change lenses on the fine sand, so the best landscape shots I have are merely test shots.

One last thing, I was bored today so I marked exactly where I snapped everything above. And by exact I mean pretty close

17 comments

Ruddy Turnstones

Tuesday, 15. September 2009, 04:21:30

Ruddy Turnstone

It's now day 21 since my arrival back home, and I still think it's cold outside. It's kind of funny, it was 25°C/77°F today, and everyone except me was complaining how hot it was.