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Last image of a chipping sparrow - until I take more.

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[noelcmn]

Here's an image that has "heart stopping" written all over it- A fledgling Weaver, fallen form the nest, into the crocodile infested Lake Panic in Kruger Park. We all watched with bated breath as it scampered from one island to another, hoping to get to the shore, not that it was safer there. Old image from 2009

[WPRESTO]

Deer in the Quabbin reservoir. Hunting is not allowed, so they are poached (not roasted, baked or fricasseed)

[aslyfox]

Great Blue Heron Ardea Herodias

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Blue_Heron/overview

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just got back from Great Bend Kansas having attended my first Wings and Wetlands Festival - Wings & Wetlands Birding Festival – Kansas Wetlands Education Center - ( held every two years - already plaining to attend again )

primarily designed for bird watchers who go out to Cheyenne Bottoms, Quivira and other areas for birds but they will put up with photographers too.

taken from the vehicle on a very foggy morning in the Cheyenne Bottoms

obviously at different times and different birds

K 3 II + HD PENTAX-D FA 150-450mm F4.5-5.6 ED DC AW

b/w presentation presented here: Just Black and White-ur B/W Monochrome photos here - PentaxForums.com

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Last edited by aslyfox; 05-06-2019 at 03:54 AM. Reason: added next to last photo

[arnold]

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Pentax MX with M50/1.7 Kodachrome
This lion is about to charge the car in front. Kruger National Park 1981

[WPRESTO]

Zoo rhino, with one somewhat distorted horn.

[aslyfox]

Burrowing Owls Athene cunicularia

Burrowing Owl Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

photographed while attending my first Wings and Wetlands Festival - Wings & Wetlands Birding Festival – Kansas Wetlands Education Center - ( held every two years - already plaining to attend again )

It is held in Great Bend Kansas and obviously the participants did not limit themselves to what could be found in the wetlands

( owls, prairie dogs and horses were on private property and owner was not happy with all the people who attended the festival coming by to photograph his pastures from the public road - he even called the Sheriff on my group but we had the right to photograph from public road way [ we also had the long time assistant County Coroner driving the vehicle, along with an licensed attorney among the 4 people in the car ] )

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[ramseybuckeye]

First Eastern Phoebe I've saw this year, but I haven't been out much. I had the HD DA 55-300mm PLM instead of the DA* 300, but a decent result.

[aslyfox]

First Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Tyrannus forficatus I ever saw

( never could get a good photo any of them as they flew )

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

one of the birds I photographed due my attending the Birds and Wetlands Festival at Great Bend Kansas this week end-

Wings & Wetlands Birding Festival – Kansas Wetlands Education Center

[noelcmn]

[pepperberry farm]

[noelcmn]

Cormorant

[arnold]

Yashica Lynx 5000 Rangefinder on Kodachrome, January 1972. Kruger National Park.

[aslyfox]

during the Wings and Wetlands festival in Great Bend, there was a side trip for a limited number ( first come, first serve ), a chance to see, hear and photograph Greater Prairie Chickens. one on Saturday and one on Sunday after the end of the festival. I got to go on Sunday. It was the first time I had ever seen or heard them.

[ this is on private land and access is carefully controlled to protect the birds, so access is limited by number and duration - two blinds with the birds being within 30 - 50 yards away. [ they neglected to tell us until we were leaving, otherwise, I would have turned off the GPS. ] They took the blinds out later that day. for more info you could attempt to contact the Kansas Wetlands Education Center: http://wetlandscenter.fhsu.edu/]

[WPRESTO]

You guessed it as soon as you saw the image - this is the end of my zoo-rhinos. (scan)