Friday, January 2, 2009

Birds

Still a little congested this morning with this chest cold, so I decided to take the day off from pickleball, cycling or any of the other many things there is to do here at Tanglewood. I think I am past the worst of it though. Managed to sneak out to Walgreens for some throat lozenges too.
I packed up my camera this morning and sat out at the pond along the main access road into Tanglewood. There is a sandhill crane(thanks Lynn for pointing that out) and a bunch of sandpipers who are usually pretty busy on shore and feeding in the shallows. No sign of the sandpipers this morning but I did manage a few nice shots of the crane. I also caught a vulture and osprey flying overhead. I used my 70-200 mm lens with a 1.4x teleconverter added on to it. These are cropped shots of the originals. May have to try the 100-400mm at another time.
Let me know what you think of them in the comments field please.