Wildlife Photography across the Water: Trip Report-New Jersey-Bird Gallery

Tuesday 26 January 2010

Trip Report-New Jersey-Bird Gallery

Bear with me there are only 2 galleries after this one before its back to normal, Its taken a couple of days to finally get my PC working properly again after various infections but now fingers crossed we are back up and running, So here are the last of the sea birds, Most are Full Frame with a couple cropped, All taken with the usual Nikon gear, Some of the sandpipers are shot using fill flash from the SB90 and better beamer combo

Black bellied Plover-winter plummage

Common Loon with crab

Gull feeding on barnacles

Red Throated Diver-winter plummage

Turnstone

Turnstones and Sandpipers in flight

Purple Sandpiper

Dunlin?

Dave

3 comments:

Julian26 January 2010 at 20:16
All good Dave, but if had to pick favs then 2,9 & 10 appeal for the behaviour/activity element.

BTW well captured Loon image. Is the Loon closely related to our European Diver family - looks v similar? If so, quite a haunting call I imagine on a cold morning across a mist covered expanse of water?

Best regards
Julian
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Dave26 January 2010 at 22:48
Hi Julian
Yes the Loon is called a diver in Europe, I wasnt expecting to see these so it was great to not only see both species but to get some reasonable images as well, I would just love to get some in their breeding plummage but 1 step at a time
Regards

Dave
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Anonymous27 January 2010 at 18:30
Really enjoyed the series Dave, thank you, great variation and like 2, 4 and 10 particularly in this set. Love the loon and crab image.
Suze
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David Courtenay, a self taught wildlife and nature photographer, has been capturing images for over 30 years. He has had a passion for wildlife since early childhood and remembers being glued to the television whenever Survival, Wildlife on One and other natural history documentaries were shown. In the 2006 he swapped his established career for the life of a wildlife photographer, such a move demands a measure of uncompromising passion and commitment.

David has travelled extensively throughout Europe as well as spending more than 7 months in India working with local guides and trackers in search of Bengal Tiger, Asian One horned Rhino and Asian Elephant. He has also photographed Wildlife in Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sumatra, Africa, Canada and America. Working closely with Conservation companies he tries to raise funds to help Wildlife that has been put on the endangered list by poaching and habitation loss

Martin Dyer has had a passion for avian wildlife since childhood, particularly raptors. Photography was also another keen interest and it was with the specific availability and control of the whole process that digital offers that Martin was then able to combine the two in 2003. Based in the UK, Martin is a regular visitor to Scotland, specifically the Isle of Mull to watch the Eagles resident there. Other trips to Europe and around the UK are usually part of Martin’s agenda in a typical year.

However, as a firm believer on making the most of the local patch, Martin has spent a lot of time and hard work creating a wildlife garden which is reaping the rewards with many new species and varieties of wildlife. A keen member of a number of wildlife photographic groups, Martin is keen to expand his portfolio into other areas of wildlife, and has already established a wide portfolio of images of fungi.