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A Great Day at Cherry Creek (Part 2: Herons)
Yesterday I wrote a bit about my latest visit to Cherry Creek. The Cottonwood Creek wetland area was recently redone, and after a major rainfall it was full, both with water and a wide variety of...
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Snowy Egret
A Snowy Egret, a beautiful white wading bird, hunting small fish in Cottonwood Creek at Cherry Creek State Park. This photo was shot at 560mm on my EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS lens with a 1.4x...
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Western Kingbird
This is a slightly older photo. Took it at Cherry Creek last year during the summer. Was the first time I’d ever seen a Western Kingbird, although I had seen numerous Eastern Kingbirds a few weeks...
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Castlewood Canyon…dry, but not lifeless!
I visited Castlewood Canyon State Park here in Colorado today. Castlewood is a small park on the northern outskirts of Black Forest, a fairly large wooded area on the plains to the east of the Rocky...
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The Mistaken Hike: Waterton Canyon
I took the 300mm rental lens out for the first time on Friday. Small aside...I had originally intended to take it out a bit on Thursday to get the hang of it before I used it for anything important....
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Snowy Egrets at 600mm
Well, its been a few days since I posted about my experiences with the Canon EF 300mm f/2.8 L II IS lens. The last time I wrote was last Saturday, which turned out to be an excellent day. It wasn't...
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Long-billed Dowitchers
Came across a couple of migrating Long-billed Dowitchers, a type of shorebird, at Cherry Creek last fall. Some of my first series of shots trying to use a lower perspective to improve DOF and produce...
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Cottonwood Creek – Fall Waterbirds
At the tail end of fall, or very beginning of winter depending on how you look at it, I managed to find a variety of birds at the Cottonwood Creek Wetland area. During the 2011-2012 winter season, this...
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Bald Eagle Taking Flight
(This blog will be backdated, story from December 21st, 2012!) Well, just a few days ago, I managed to get my first shots of a Bald Eagle in flight. They were taken with my 100-400mm lens, @400mm…and...
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Coyotes at Cherry Creek
Well, for the first time, I saw a good dozen coyotes at once at Cherry Creek. Beautiful creatures, Coyotes! I knew they were out there, but I never knew there were so many. Today, they were just...
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