Magpies are really very smart birds and I find them to be a bit of a challenge to photograph. They usually flee as soon as they spot a human and that is normally at a long range. One way that has worked in the past was to visit an area where there are campers that [...]
Talk about aggressive, the Rufous Hummingbird is the feistiest hummingbird in North America. The brilliant orange male and the green-and-orange female Rufous Hummingbird are relentless attackers at flowers and feeders. They really don’t tolerate any other hummingbirds around “their” feeders. This also makes them great fun to watch and photograph. I was lucky enough to [...]
This time of the year the terns are on their nests and or are courting each other like crazy. The Least Terns seem to be particularly agresssive in finding a girl friend and are constantly fishing and bringing back their prize as “date bait”. Even for me that was a bad pun… Anyway, this behavior [...]
What a fantastic piece of software for the birder or perhaps even more so for the bird photographer.
