Clovis" 2026 Images

[markiver54]

[brm4450]

[clovishound]

Here's a side shot. I much prefer head and side shots for the angles on the bird, but when they fly you have to take what you can get. Unfortunately with this shot, the background stinks. I could do a background replacement, but I don't like doing that. FYI, on the previous shots with two birds in them, the male was flying a bit behind the female. That means I had to focus on one or the other, and there wasn't enough depth of field to encompass them both. The male was the one my camera grabbed focus on, and he is sharp in all four images. This is a constant issue when the birds are traveling in pairs, which is very common, especially in the spring and early summer, when they are breeding and raising little ones.

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Here's a squabble between a couple ibises and a yellow legs they see as competition. They didn't react at all to the ducks in the immediate area. The ducks don't eat the same things the ibises and yellow legs do.

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I've had hooded merganser on my bucket list for a while. Finally got one, unfortunately, it was in the air and too far away. At first I thought they were loons. After I got home and got to looking at the image better, and talking with someone else, I believe they are hooded mergansers.

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