Spring Tease?
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You gotta love March! It’s that time of year when you know warmer weather is on its way but just aren’t quite sure when it will actually show up. Tuesday we got a taste of whats to come. Mid 50′s for the first time in a long long time! A little rain, but who cares? Mid 50′s!
While I am by no stretch of the imagination a bird watcher or photographer, I have always liked knowing what wildlife lives or visits my neck of the woods.
I stopped by my friend Wannetta yesterday to see how she was doing. Wannetta is a big time birder and loves to hike all over with her faithful companion Logan. She said that a couple hundred Sandhill Cranes were over at the wetlands Monday evening and that she was going to stop over there in the afternoon to see if they were still there. I told her I might stop by too and see what was happening. Before I left, I just had to make a picture of Logan. He was kind enough to hop up on the picnic table for a quicky portrait. I only had my camera with 1 sb600 but I think it worked ok. Logan is a great dog. He loves to fetch stuff and is always trying to drag huge branches around. Pretty funny to watch that! I think he would be a very good frisbee dog. Very agile and quick. Good lookin too!
I met up with Wannetta in the afternoon and she introduced me to Joe and his wife (for the life of me I can’t remember her name). Joe is also a bird photographer. A pretty darn good one at that. I brought my tripod and my 150-500 Sigma in hopes of maybe making a crane picture or two but when they did show up, they were way out of range. I did get to see them with Wannettas’ spotting scope though. Very cool looking birds. No chance of a picture though.
For me, this is like getting all dressed up with nowhere to go though. I had to come home with a couple of pictures! As luck would have it, Logan was in the mood to play catch with his frisbee! I don’t think he is ever not in the mood though. Him and Bosco are my 2 favorite dogs to make pictures of. Bosco for the still shots and Logan for the action shots. He does like to pose too though. I spent about a half hour shooting him showing off his mad frisbee skills. I also made a couple of portraits of him as the sun dipped near the horizon. Soon after, we headed out.
I think I’m going to have to stop by the wetlands more frequently. A couple of Pintail Ducks showed up and I guess that doesn’t happen often. Very cool to see. And if Logan shows up, I’m in the bonus round!