Fawn and Birds

The windy, rainy, cloudy weather has presented some challenges for wildlife photography this spring.  Doing wildlife requires having high enough shutter speeds to capture the subjects without blur.  Overcast and rainy conditions reduce light.  So most of the work is done at elevated ISO speeds which impacts on image crispness.  It has been fun watching ducks in two of my friends ponds.  One pond has Mallards with young, Hooded Mergansers with young and wood ducks with young.  I have captured shots of all of them-but only a few of the shots are satisfactory for publication.

Here is best shot of the Hooded Merganser female with a part of her brood:

Canon MK 1D; Canon 600 f4 with 1.4TC @f10 1/320 ISO 1000

While I was sitting in blind waiting for the ducks a male and female Red Wing Black Bird kept scolding me.

Canon MK 1D; Canon 600 f4 with 1.4TC @f10 1/160 ISO 640

Canon MK 1D; Canon 600 f4 with 1.4TC @f10 1/160 ISO 640

On my way to one of the duck ponds I cam upon this fairly new born fawn.

Canon MK 1D; Canon 600 f4 with 1.4TC @f8 1/160 ISO 1000 EC+.33

Yesterday while out and about I saw a dark spot in the grass and found this little guy hiding!

Canon MK 1D; Canon 600 f4 with 1.4TC @f9 1/250 ISO 640

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Until Next Time

Jim Borden