bolsa chica

Who knew that pigeons could look so cool? At least they looked cool to me flying around at Bolsa Chica Wetlands. It was hard because they tended to fly as a flock so it was hard to get compositions with them that I thought looked well, on top of their moving around all over the place pretty...

I believe this is a Great Egret. I shot it in Bolsa Chica Wetlands a few days ago with my Nikon D850 and the Tamron 150-600mm G2. The sun was getting low and I liked how it was backlighting some of the feathers and giving them a golden glow. All comments are welcome, Jim

This is from Thursday afternoon at Bolsa Chica Wetlands in Huntington Beach. I was using the Tamron 150-600mm G2 on my Nikon D850. I am downloading an app to help ID birds, but for now I wanted to post these 2 views of the same bird. All comments are welcome, Jim

Alan will like this one! :) This is from Bolsa Chica Wetlands looking across to the Bolsa Chica State Beach. This was with the Tamron 150-600mm on the Nikon D850 in crop mode at 260mm at a distance of a 1/4 to 1/2 mile away. I could have switched to full frame mode, but then I would have had to...

I was at Bolsa Chica Wildlife Preserve shooting birds and testing out different things with the new Tamron 150-600mm lens. I did shoot lot's of nameless birds. I had gotten there late in the afternoon so there wasn't much time before the sun was setting towards the horizon. As I looked over to...