Showing posts with label seal slough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seal slough. Show all posts

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Seal Slough Pelicans

The day after I took the Egret photos from last weeks blog post I went back to try and find the pelicans. Very happy I did. These photos were taken in the same settings as the last time, Manual mode, F11, ISO 800, handheld, playing around with shutter speed depending on the light.

Brown Pelicans, ducks in the background.


I think this is also a Brown Pelican. Doesn't look exactly like the first two but I guess there are variations.

Nice clear photo.



So pretty.


Blue Heron, he was in the sun and I only got a slight silhouette shot then he took off. 

How lucky was this one? wow

American White Pelicans. They have been hanging out in Foster City for the last couple of weeks in large flocks. This (I assume) is a smaller group than what has been seen in the area recently. 

They slowly move along dipping their heads in the water and coming up with their bills full. 






Would have been a good reflection if not for the seagull stealing the shot.

If I had been in S Mode I think these action shots would have come out better. 

Still pretty good photo. With this turning out so well its hard to really try with S Mode. I'm too afraid I'll end up with no photos.

Watch the mud slide off his feet in the next photo.



Going to a less crowded spot?

Nope, not less crowded. 

So many birds, Blue Heron in the background with his head down, Black Necked Stilts and an Egret all behind the Pelican and Seagulls.



Another great set of flying pelican shots.





wow

Pelican on the far left has an itch...

Scratch must have felt good!

Happy Friday!!!







Friday, November 3, 2017

Seal Slough Egrets

These photos were all taken in Manual Mode, handheld, no tripod about the same as last week. Too many photos to include in my blog so I'll try to add a link to the album.

I realized some of these egrets have yellow bills and some have black. The yellow bills are on the Great Egret and the black or dark bills are the Snowy Egrets aka small white heron.

Snowy Egret. 

Snowy Egret

Great Egret

So pretty. 

Not the same egret as the last photo, just the same pose.

The Great Egret hanging out. They really let me get so close to them this day.

Snowy Egret looking for a snack.

Beautiful reflection shot.

I just got lucky with these flying egret photos. 


Look at that beautiful bird.

Here is the link to see the rest of the photos.

Happy Friday!!!