wood duck in Calgary #woodduck

Red shafted northern flicker #birds

Banquet gathering beating materials #birds

Friendly moose meandering beside me ,it couldn’t care less that I was not far from her

Love the tropical waters of Cuba

Because Maga doesn’t support anything but Trump. The rest of the world is sitting back watching Washington crumble at the hands of trump. Republicans will oust him somehow if they don’t they will lose support. If they already aren’t!!!!!

A baby wood duck at inglewood bird sanctuary. #birds #bird # birdphotography

Yup from back in the 80’swhen trump went bankrupt and the Russians bailed him out. They own him

Ring neck pheasant foraging for food in Calgary #bird #birds #birdphotography

The white face gives it away lol!!

It will be interesting to see if @everyheron.bsky.social answers and thinks!!

I see lots of Gb around calgary area where I live.

Here is another that was taken on the ocean on other end of island I think this one is GB

I will have to check a couple other photos. I will share and see what you think too

I really thought it was too. But still uncertain as I was with a local birder when we saw this. I said tricolored he thought GB

Great blue heron wandering the marsh in Aruba
#birds #bird #birdphotography

Muscovy duck in Aruba #birds #bird #birdphotography #birdwatching

We started the day off with these two tropical mockingbirds harassing the bare eyed pigeon and ended our day with this guy singing away #birds #bird #birdphotography #birdwatching

Beauty

Beauty!!

Neo-tropic cormorant drying itself off in Aruba after a swim for lunch #birds #birdwatching #birdwatchers #cormorants #birds #birdphotography

Yeah image stabilization def helps

I had to mess around with setting when I got my r body camera to find the auto focus I liked best especially for birds

I have the ef 100-400 also and it’s a decent lens monopod helps in bird photography to
All my recent photos on here from a trip to Aruba were taken with 200-800 handheld

Fair enough this one isn’t heavy imho

American Kestral perched on a shrub just outside its nest area at the California lighthouse Aruba
#birds #bird #birdphotography #birdwatching #kestral

I use RF200-800 and like it

The resident beach Shoco burrowing owl on the beach in Aruba #bird #birds #birdphotography #birdwatching

The elusive yellow oriole in Aruba , elusive to us that is as this was the only one we saw and he stayed amongst the branches. #bird #birds #birdwatching #birdphotography #naturephotography. #yelloworiole #oriole