Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Birds, and lots of 'em

I recently made three photographic trips. The first was to Evangeline Beach where I photographed thousands of semi-palmated samdpipers and plovers. I will post the other two trips later: the Bay of Fundy and Kejimkujik National Park.

Each year in July thousands of these birds congregate on the Minas Basin to feed on the mudflats. If you go on the fall of high tide the birds are crammed together on small beaches waiting for flats to be exposed so they can binge on those delightful invertebrates. So I went down there to have a look...

I used my Canon EOS 40D and 100-400mm L USM lens.



































At the smallest of sounds, or movement or smell the birds take flight.































































They have a brown upper and a white lower so in the air they produce wonderful and colourful patterns




2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great collection of images, and very different from what we usually get on here. Nice one. I really like image 3, the very compressed close up, as it's a pattern picture first, then you pick out all the birds. This one is most "arty" of the bunch, but they are all good.

Ivan

Anonymous said...

Sorry, I meant to say image 4 is my favourite...