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Pixel Revue: More Male Broad-tails

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Thursday, April 9, 2015. I never tire of looking at those iridescent throat feathers. Tom Bradley © 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I don't consider myself a wildlife photographer. I don't own a 600mm lens (and probably never will) and I hate to get up before sunrise. I like to get close to the animals I shoot so I might capture a glimpse of their personality. Can't always do that, bull moose and bears are funny that way. I'm also on Google. Dark-eyed Junco, Gray-headed Race.

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Pixel Revue: Great Blue Heron

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Thursday, May 7, 2015. From this front view, a Great Blue Heron at Huntington Beach State Park, South Carolina, doesn't look so blue. Tom Bradley © 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I don't consider myself a wildlife photographer. I don't own a 600mm lens (and probably never will) and I hate to get up before sunrise. I like to get close to the animals I shoot so I might capture a glimpse of their personality. Can't always do that, bull moose and bears are funny that way. I'm also on Google.

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Pixel Revue: Bad Squirrel

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Friday, April 3, 2015. Continuing to bring out the dark side of fuzzy woodland creatures. Pine squirrels love to get up in a branch above your head and unleash a torrent of rodential vituperation. They just can't have primates in their space. Sometimes they just go off for no apparent reason. Like some people I know. The little buggers even look pissed off. Tom Bradley © 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm also on Google. Dark-eyed Junco, Gray-headed Race. Yur in my space, man.

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Pixel Revue: Blow Dry and Fluff

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Saturday, May 9, 2015. Blow Dry and Fluff. Here's a female Anhinga drying off in the breeze after diving for fish at Huntington Beach State Park, South Carolina. Unlike the other fishing birds I saw, this breed swam under water to spear fish with that really sharp beak. To stay submerged, her feathers became completely soaked making her negatively buoyant. Then she would spend considerable time air-drying her plumage only to jump back in and go fishing again! Here she is looking snakey. I'm also on Google.

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Pixel Revue: Dark-eyed Junco, Gray-headed Race

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Dark-eyed Junco, Gray-headed Race. Common in the Colorado high country, they seem to prefer feeding on the ground in small groups. Even when food is available in a feeder, I see them on the ground picking up the fallen seeds rather than getting an easy meal directly from the source. Their name is "Dark-eyed," but when hit by bright sunlight, their irises are really red. Tom Bradley © 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm also on Google. Dark-eyed Junco, Gray-headed Race.

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Pixel Revue: Bad Bird

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Thursday, April 2, 2015. A Mountain Chickadee looking kinda scary. I accidentally underexposed this photograph. I pushed the darkness further in post until this image emerged. This is not how I usually see these cute and very friendly birds. Tom Bradley © 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I hope to make a living selling Art Photography through my business called Luminist Pictures (see web link below). I'm also on Google. Dark-eyed Junco, Gray-headed Race. Yur in my space, man.

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Pixel Revue: Snake in the pine needles

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Saturday, April 11, 2015. Snake in the pine needles. In the 50-some years I had been spending summers at my cabin in the Colorado Rockies, I had never seen a snake or reptile of any kind. Doesn't mean they weren't there, I just never saw them. until last September. In fact, I wouldn't have seen this one were it not for the Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel doing some sort of war dance in front of it. Tom Bradley © 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm also on Google. Dark-eyed Junco, Gray-headed Race.

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Pixel Revue: Lunch

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Friday, April 24, 2015. A Great Egret at Huntington Beach State Park, South Carolina, about to enjoy a large lunch. The fish, obviously having a bad day, is a Menhaden. It is one of the most important fish species in US Atlantic fisheries. There are active conservation bodies from Maine to Florida ensuring Menhaden populations are healthy and not over fished. Why? Tom Bradley © 2015. July 11, 2015 at 2:34 AM. Was this formidable (and poor! If not, does the bird manage to digest (bones etc) entirely?

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Pixel Revue: Vibrissae

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Thursday, April 9, 2015. Whiskers. Lots of them. Tom Bradley © 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I don't consider myself a wildlife photographer. I don't own a 600mm lens (and probably never will) and I hate to get up before sunrise. I like to get close to the animals I shoot so I might capture a glimpse of their personality. Can't always do that, bull moose and bears are funny that way. I'm also on Google. Dark-eyed Junco, Gray-headed Race. Yur in my space, man. Snake in the pine needles.