birding

Midwest USA, September 2025

Oly E-M1 @ 300mm, f/6.7, 1/500s, ISO-250. Edited in darktable.

Cormorants have such beautiful eyes. This is on a river that bisects my town. All year you'd walk by and see cormorants posted here. This was by far their favorite spot.

Midwest USA, September 2025.

Olympus E-M1 @ 300mm, f/6.7, 1/1600s, ISO-3200. Edited in darktable.

This is one of my first bird shots with my E-M1 and 75-300mm lens. It's shit, ha. I still wanted to share it though.

Midwest USA, September 2025.

Oly E-M1 @ 300mm, f/6.7, 1/100s, ISO-1600. Edited in darktable.

One of my favorite bird calls. It always makes me think of early summer. I wasn't going to upload this one the light was bad and I couldn't get close, but I never found another opportunity.

In Southern California from back in May

Seen around FW zoo at 8AM. A crow was losing his shit on a branch next to this specimen.

I don't think I have ever captured a bird in a more classic birdy profile.

Bonus cronch:

Full sizes here and here.

Midwest USA, October 2025

Olympus E-M1 + Oly 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 II

@ 300mm, f/6.7, 1/400s, ISO-200

Edited in darktable

They wanted my bread.

Southeast US.

Bonus, a pretty good pair of tits:

;D

Midwest USA, October 2025

Olympus E-M1+ Oly 75-300mm, f/4.8-6.7 II

@ 300mm, f/6.7, 1/320s, ISO-200

Edited with Darktable

Not my best work, but I still like this set.

Midwest USA, September 2025.

Olympus E-M1+ Oly 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 II

@ 300mm, f/7.1, 1/160s, ISO-320

Edited with Darktable

This collection is from September. It looks like I never shared these. I've been trying to learn Darktable and re-edited these for some practice.

Hanging out on my fence here in Southern California

Southeast US. This fellow always hangs on the feeder like that.

He had just finished eating a squirrel

Not to be confused with the moss covered, three handled family credenza.

Several of these descended on my feeders in the snow today, and I haven't seen them around here before at all. Maybe I just haven't been looking hard enough.

It only looks like I'm being all on brand here and doing this in my usual illuminated photobox because we were enjoying near whiteout conditions pretty much all day today. But that didn't stop the little bastards from cleaning out my feeders three times.

These little dudes have a great call.

He's got the spirit, though.

One of the more interesting visitors to the feeders during this silly blizzard. For some reason my R10's autofocus really has trouble with them in particular, at least in these conditions. I gave up and winged it. This was the best I got through the window.

My Mum gave some birds seeds and I added due to some being a bit hostile. Never seen so many Cardinals at once, this was exciting to watch. Thought I share a picture.

Brisbane, Australia

Taken with an OM-1 Mk II / Zuiko 300mm F4

The snow has really been great for birdwatching!

Got some snow and ice here in the southern US. I hope everyone that is affected by this big winter storm system stays warm and safe!

Two bird learnings for today. I've had trouble identifying a couple of birds for a long while. Using a telephoto lens really helped.

1. There's a variety of little birds that have thrown me off for some time. I could never quite pin them down until today, when I finally got a good look at the back of their heads and realized they were Ruby-crowned Kinglets! I never had binos or a good lens on hand when I see them and, without the red crown flaring, I missed the subtle red dot. Mystery solved! (I'll include a meh photo I took today that shows the elusive red spot).

2. Turns out those dark little birds have been Dark-eyed Junco all along. I had presumed they would be larger, which I need to stop doing for birds. I was also getting confused by their variety in color. Thanks to their pink beaks and song, I think I finally have them down now. Another mystery solved.