Clovis" 2026 Images

[clovishound]

Another day of mediocre results at Magnolia. There were lots and lots of ibises and coots. The eagles were nowhere to be seen and the owls taunted me from the bamboo forest, but were well hidden. I did get some birds in flight shots.

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I've been trying to get some good ducks in flight images. I'm managing to get more, and better shots, but haven't really gotten exactly what I'm looking for. I'm hoping to get a small handful of really good ones before summer is over. The first one would have been much better if I could have gotten her coming towards me, and a little closer. I had to crop a good bit and it doesn't have the resolution I'd like for a big print.

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[markiver54]

[Hatchdog]

Awesome, love the ducks landing pic.

[clovishound]

Tealgardium leviousa!

[clovishound]

Here's the whole string of them landing. I missed the initial approach as I was on a dyke beside the retention pond and alternately looking to the right and then the left for the next group to come flying in or out. I had just looked back to the left and saw them on short final. It took a little time to raise the camera, find them in the viewfinder and lock focus. These were just quick crop and export with minimal editing, so as to show what the entire string looked like. It was shot at 20 fps. I can get much higher fps (up to 120 fps), but sacrifice image quality above 20 fps, and don't really want to have that many images to go through. I typically only choose anywhere from 1 to 3 from a string to edit. That assumes there are any that are worth editing.

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