Birding and Bird Photography

These guys love the sunflowers. We've had a bunch of them each afternoon for the past 2 weeks.

 

Can't keep these idiots off the hummingbird feeders.

 

I have bluebird babies.

 

One of my favorites.

 

they came, congrats. Insert field of dreams quote here.

 

Caught in the act!

 

I Love these barred owls

 

What’s in your lunch bag?

 

You a fish biologist, or an avid fisherman? RE your username and tagline. Dig it. I work with O. mykiss irideus.

 

Nice! Awesome job!!
Longtime Flyfisher! But have educated many biologists on quite a few rivers due to there lack of understanding. You can’t get behaviorism from a book or a electro probe, it comes from time on the water. Many years ago I have ventured/explored the southern reaches of mykiss and have heard the stories of mini’s in the streams off of Baja. But I truly enjoy the environs of the giants in British Columbia, where dreams are made and the feeling of the wild west lastly remains. Is your employer corporate or government?

 

Don’t want to sound pretentious here, let me elaborate. Flyfishing leads to observing behavior and evoking a reaction, certain rivers have unique ones. Also studying the topography of a drainage, it’s migration channels, it’s aquatic insects (flyfishing turns you into a backyard entomologist), its PH, temp and salinity levels, time of year/angle of sun, what other fish species are in the drainage and a host of other facets that I can go on with. Time on the River familiarizes with its ecosystem (I feel fisherman exceed in hours, days that turn into years spent on drainages), not to mention with all the trial and error of fooling the sliver ghost to strike.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/fly-fishing-bs-thread.246222/page-294#post-18619535

I have a saying:
“Flyfishing is a disease and the only cure is belly deep”

 

No fly fishermen aren’t pretentious or self righteous. But show up with a spinning reel and out fish them and all sorts of bile is spewed in your direction.

I’ve been accused or catching “their” fish. Of cheating and ruining their pleasure in the “purity” of fishing.

 

I’ve seen that happened either way and it reflects more on the angler than the method used. Common stream etiquette should be practiced, when you have a whole river that’s fishable. There’s no need or benefit to fish the same spot that’s occupied by others.

 

Lake powell vulture.
both taken with the kit lens on a Panasonic lumix gx85. Would love to upgrade to a nicer lens for some bird photos but I also really want to buy a wide angle prime lens….

 

A juvenile red bellied woodpecker

 

Williamson’s Sapsucker

 

Asshole that bullies all the other birds