This photograph was taken from an airboat, on Lake Kissimee. It was a lot of fun watching Snail Kites eating Apple Snails, small Turtles, and engaging in courting activities. I think that just like the previous post, this shot works as a 1×2 crop as well.

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Wow, what a snowstorm! 32.4″ of snow was measured at Dulles Airport, eight miles from my home. I love it! I got quite a bit of photo processing done in the past few days.

I’ve been working through my archives of unprocessed photos, and found a few that I’ll be sharing with you all. I took this photo of a Roseate Spoonbill in April of 2009 on a trip to Florida. I really enjoyed photographing these bright and vibrant birds up against dark mangrove backgrounds!

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I forgot to mention in my last post that my image “Frosted Aspens” was selected as an honorable mention in Naturescapes.net’s 2009 images of the year! You can view all of the winning and honorably mentioned photos here.

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This image that I made last winter of hoar frost-covered trees in West Virginia is featured as the photo of the month on Naturescapes.net. View it here if you’d like!

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Last week, I spent five days with my good friend and photographer Chris Kayler in upstate New York, at his Grandparents’ house. We didn’t do a whole lot other than photograph at bird feeders or head out to the ice-covered lake only to have our efforts thwarted by poor light, but I still totally enjoyed it. I have a bunch of shots of common feeder birds (No Evening Grosbeaks this year :-/) that I didn’t previously have, but my favorite subject was this cute and cooperative Red Squirrel Here’s one of my favorite images from the short trip.

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I took a last minute half-day trip yesterday out to Barnegat Light, New Jersey, to photograph sea ducks and shorebirds. It was a pretty productive shoot, with clear skies and not much wind to worry about. I successfully photographed Harlequin Duck, Brant, Surf Scoter, Purple Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Dunlin, and Long-tailed Duck, and on top of that I saw Black Scoter, Common Eider, Common Loon, and Greater Black-backed Gull, among others.

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The Red-tailed Hawk is North America’s most common and largest Hawk, yet I’ve found it to be the most skittish of them all, and have had great difficulty approaching and photographing them. When I heard there was an especially tame one in Southern Ontario, I made a point to made a weekend trip around it! These are the first three I’ve processed… I easily have a dozen other keepers, including some of a Barred Owl.

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The Red-tailed Hawk is North America’s most common and largest Hawk, yet I’ve found it to be the most skittish of them all, and have had great difficulty approaching and photographing them. When I heard there was an especially tame one in Southern Ontario, I made a point to made a weekend trip around it! These are the first three I’ve processed… I easily have a dozen other keepers, including some of a Barred Owl.

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Here’s one from the a while back. After a far less than exciting sunset shoot at Southwestern Colorado’s famous Dallas Divide, I came across these interesting lichens.

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I have so many images to process! Here’s one from last March. I kayaked out to “White Pelican Island” near Placida, Florida. It was one heck of a paddle to get out there, and over the course of two and a half hours, I only made one image that I like.

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