Posted in Birds, Nature, Photography, wildlife, tagged Alexandria, Ardea herodias, Canon 50D, Great Blue Heron, Huntley Meadows Park, Tamron 180mm macro lens, wingspan on September 1, 2013| 8 Comments »
Coming in for a landing, this Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) stretched out his wings to their full extent and the sight was mighty impressive. The wings stretched out so wide, in fact, that I couldn’t fit them entirely into the frame. As he reached the ground, the heron gradually pulled in his wings and I was able to get a couple of additional shots of the impressive wingspan.
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Posted in Birds, Nature, Photography, wildlife, tagged Black Vulture, Canon 55-250mm zoom lens, Canon Rebel XT, Huntley Meadows Park, soaring, turkey vulture, vulture, wingspan on December 6, 2012| 3 Comments »
Monday was a good day for vultures. It was warm and sunny and there must have been lots of thermal updrafts on which to soar. For a short while, a mixed group of turkey vultures and black vultures circles over my head and I couldn’t help but admire again their impressive wingspans. Remembering the response of my fellow photographer and blogger Lyle Krahn to a previous posting I did on vultures, I made sure that I moved around from time to time. He commented, “If I saw that many vultures overhead, I’d be checking my pulse!”
The lighting was pretty interesting that day, for it illuminated one wing more than another, giving the birds an asymmetrical look. I decided to post a similar shot of each of the two types of vultures so that you can see some of the differences between the two.
Turkey vulture
Black vulture
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