You can see my Best of Landscapes (https://kritterspaw.com/2024/01/20/best-of-landscapes-2024/) and Animals (https://kritterspix.com/2024/01/20/best-of-animals-2023/). I got quite a number of bird photos, so I thought I’s put together a Best of Birds as well. So here goes….
This year has been a huge learning year for me personally. I embarked on a self-challenge to capture better bird photos, and birds-in-flight, its own challenging category. It started with Whitewater Draw, south of Tucson, as I wanted to capture the sandhill cranes. You can see my posts from Whitewater Draw here… https://kritterspaw.com/2022/02/06/birds-a-feather/ and https://kritterspix.com/2022/02/06/whitewater-draw-workshop/, way back in late January.
It quickly morphed into osprey, hawk, and eagle.
So it’s only natural to expand to little birds to complete the education.
I guess you can say I’m branching out.
I guess you just have to take what you get and try to capture it the best way you can, whatever it may be. All education is good. One of the most important lessons I have learned has been preparedness. If I’m not prepared for that ‘moment’, no amount of knowledge, luck, or conditions will allow me to capitalize on my opportunity.
You know what they say… when given lemons make lemonade…. or something like that.
I would love to have bear and mountain lions to photograph (or even elk and deer), but with all the rain we have had, the big animals have lots of options for food and drink, making them harder to find.
So, in attempt to keep up my wildlife photography, I did a session with this little squirrel (and a few birds).
This little squirrel seems to be quite content to not be sharing his space with big animals.
Finch
Grosbeak
Woodpecker
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