reserve

Green Bee-eater between preening.

Finally starting to capture reasonable shots of my favourite insects in flight. Perfect light helps...low ISO and heavily stepped down to f8. EV at least -0.33 in full sunshine. Shutter speed 1/200s blurs the wings quite nicely. Of course, the tricky bit is hand holding and manually focusing (AF...

Only seen at Yanacochca Reserve on the trip.

is called gralha-do-campo on Brasil

It's about 3 weeks ago since posting my last birdpicture, time to share a new one..... Last weekend I went biking, and did not take my camera with me. And, of course, along the reserve a confrontation with birds was inevitable, in this case many geese, most of them Greylags. But also some...

This snow goose helped me out by flying right pass me when I was rounding the curve at the reserve. The perfect blue sky helps bring out the beauty of this bird!

These three pintails would go from one little section of the water that wasn't frozen at the reserve yesterday. It's was comical to watch them "walking" or skating on the ice.

There weren't many different types of birds at the reservef yesterday, but the ones that were there were very photogenic! This pintail drake was so cooperative for me!

Up close and personal

It was fun watching the cormorants fishing for dinner while at the reserve. Lucky enough to capture him catching his dinner!

Northern Pintail Drake...perfect take-off.

Puerto Rican Flycatcher (Myiarchus antillarum) This species is only native to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The stripes in its tail is caused from shadows. Photographed in an African Tulip-tree (Spathodea campanulata: Bignoniaceae) at Laguna Tortuguero Natural Reserve with a spring fed...

Puerto Rican Lizard Cuckoo (Coccyzus vieilloti) This striking Puerto Rican endemic was easily found and observed but getting a picture of it in the open eluded me. Not that I did not have opportunity, I was just too slow (lol). Photographed at Laguna Tortuguero Natural Reserve with a spring...

Caribbean Elaenia (Elaenia martinica) Photographed in Boquern Nature Reserve near Cabo Rojo on the southwest side of Puerto Rico, USA. Dry coastal forest woodlands at ca. 3 m (10 ft) elevation.

Paper Wasp (Polistes crinitus americanus: Vespidae) Their body length is ca. 1.5-2.5 cm (0.59-1.0 in) long. Photographed in Gunica Dry Forest Reserve, southeast of Nica, Puerto Rico, USA on the Caribbean side of the island. Tropical dry forest ca. 3 m elevation (10 ft) elevation.

Pearly-eyed Thrasher (Margarops fuscatus fuscatus) Four subspecies are recognized with only the nominate being mapped for Puerto Rico. Photographed in Gunica Dry Forest Reserve, southeast of Nica, Puerto Rico, USA on the Caribbean side of the island. One can approach these birds but they rarely...

Key West Quail-dove (Geotrygon chrysia) Photographed at Laguna Tortuguero Natural Reserve with a spring fed lake with wooded hills of Atlantic lowland rainforest at ca. 1-7 m (3.3-23.0 ft) in elevation. Situated between Vega Baja and Manat, west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA.

Ringneck Parrot drinking at a watering station in Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.