Photos of Reddish Egrets - Bolivar Peninsula, TX - April 26, 2024 - Capturing, Part 1

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This is another addition to the blog featuring photos of Reddish Egrets taken during a recent visit to the Bolivar Peninsula. I sorted the photos of the birds feeding activity into three categories: chasing, capturing, and consuming. This entry is Capturing - Part 1.

The photos are of a Reddish Egret feeding on the Bolivar Flats Beach on a very windy and cloudy day. All photos were taken with an Olympus OM-1 camera with Olympus 150-400mm lens with built in 1.25x teleconverter set at 500 mm. Other settings were 1/2500 sec at f/5.6, ISO 500.

A slightly larger version of each photo can be seen by clicking on the image.

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David Sparks

I retired in 2005 after 40 years of research and teaching at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (24 years), the University of Pennsylvania (8 years) and the Baylor College of Medicine (8 years). Photography is my retirement hobby.

Nature photography, especially bird photography, combines a number of things that I really enjoy: bird-watching, being outdoors, photography, travel, messing about with computers, and learning new skills and concepts.  I now spend much of my time engaged in these activities.

David Sibley in the preface to The Sibley Guide to Birds wrote "Birds are beautiful, in spectacular as well as subtle ways; their colors, shapes, actions, and sounds are among the most aesthetically pleasing in nature."  My goal is to acquire images that capture the beauty and uniqueness of selected species as well as images that highlight the engaging behaviors the birds exhibit.