Ryan Dugan 🇵🇸

Thanks! 500mm + crop sensor will do it

A wood stork eating a small fish

My #BirdOfTheDay contribution for the #CollectingFood theme, a juvenile Wood Stork. Not common in #Colorado, first in almost 100 years!

#birds #nature #photography #wildlife

A barn owl portrait with a fall color background

A barn owl portrait taken last fall during a photography workshop put on with HawkQuest raptor rescue.

#birds #owl #fall

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

I can’t block them fast enough

Oliver Twist, what a shame. Put himself out there in front of everyone. And for what? Some gruel? A man must live on his feet. I would gladly kill or die for gruel but I would never let it drive me.

Criminal police state must be abolished

Really appreciate the work that requires your feeds are such great spaces

blorbs

Thanks! Dm me

Nikon D500 + Nikkor 200-500mm

I did! I posted it in the replies

Such a cool shot, love the profile and how his head stands out from the background, but while showing how effective his camouflage is with the body against the tree. Don’t often get both at once.

The full sneeze-quence

A Northern Pygmy-Owl perched on a branch next to the after-effects of a violet sneeze.

A personal favorite, the Northern Pygmy-Owl. I love any tiny predator.

This little guy had just sneezed, adding a nice/disgusting pop of yellow to the image 😂

#birds #owls #npo #wildlifephotography #nature #colorado

Thank you so much! I’ve never really shared my photos with anyone before joining Bluesky, and I was very nervous about it. This means the world, thank you!

Take your own

Thank you! They’re incredible birds, sometimes I’ll take a photo of one and it won’t even look real it’s so blue

A mountain bluebird taken last spring.

I’ve always particularly struggled getting good shots of these guys, they seem to taunt me. I’ll find one posing perfectly, raise my camera, try to get it framed up, and it’s gone.

#birds #bluebird #wildlifephotography #colorado #nature

Thank you! My grandma used to make a big deal about seeing hummingbirds when I was a kid, it made me think they were rare at the time. Looking back, she just loved them! I always think of her when I see one now

Thanks Kevin! Dippers are one of the birds that help get me through the winter, it’s always so exciting to find one and even better to get a good shot

Incredible! I love how even the reflection seems to disappear into the fog

Thank you!

A broad-tailed hummingbird with a red and green background

A broad-tailed hummingbird from last summer. 1/8000 shutter speed.

124(ish) days until they return to Colorado.

#birds #colorado #hummingbird #nature #wildlifephotography

Haha 1500mm equivalent, safe and sound from the car

A single American avocet wading in shallow water with a bead of water dripping off its bill.

An American Avocet for this #WaderWednesday, taken last April.

#birds #photography #colorado #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Grizzly bear in sage brush

Grizzly bear in Grand Teton National Park, taken last fall.

#mammals #grizzly #wildlife #nature #photography #wildlifephotography #gtnp

Thank you!

Thank you so much! I wish I had that power lol, this one and another were diving in the area and I just laid down and waited. Luckily this was a pretty obvious perch, not much else was around, and sure enough one popped right out of the water and onto the log!

An American Dipper, an aquatic songbird, perched on a log in the middle of a creek.

An American Dipper hunting on St. Vrain Creek.

To capture this shot, I laid belly-down in icy winter mountain runoff. I stayed as long as I could bear the cold.

Brutal at the time, but I love that now I have a photo not just of a dipper, but of a memory.

#birds #wildlifephotography #colorado