I had posted one of my firsts a while back, when I finally got to see Chukar back in Boise. Well another bird that has aluded me for a while is the Northern Shoveler. Every winter, a ton of them would come to Boise to feed in a pond on Park Center, and they would always just stay right out of the reach of my glass. Even the 200-500mm with the 1.5 crop couldn’t fill a frame the way I wanted it to. Two years worth of standing in the cold went by before I moved away, without a single shot that showed them the way I wanted to.
So imagine my surprise when I went for a bike ride on Saturday on the Bay Trail and saw them all over the marsh area. I made up my mind to get pictures on Sunday, and did just that. There was a great dock that placed people out in the water among the birds, so posted up and waited. Sitting there for a little bit they finally got comfortable enough to come within 10 feet of me, and I got some great full frame shots, just what I had wanted.
I’m trying to get back into this posting thing, so hopefully more pics to follow this week!
Power Transmission lines over the bay
Sea Gulls and Sign collage
Pipers on the marsh mud
Waterfowl on the San Francisco Bay
Pipers flying over the water
American Wigeon
Shoveler digging in the swamp mud
Godwit picking at items in the mud
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