Birds and Photography

We are going to post photographs of our vacation on this blog, of landmarks and such. But pictures of birds are difficult. We have a Fuji Finepix S1500 digital camera. We have tried to take pictures of birds, but it only works some of the time. And with dubious results.

Bald Eagles

This is the best photo I've ever taken of birds. These are two Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) in Vancouver, very close to the road, on a cloudy day. If all my photos of birds turned out like this, there would be no problem. Eagles are huge birds. But most birds we observe are tiny compared to Eagles.

one blurry eagle

Most of the time, birds in personal photographs turn into a blurry mess, if you can see them at all. Here is one eagle from Vancouver.

Pileated Woodpecker

There is a Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) in this tree. He was not hiding. It is just that taking pictures of birds requires a huge camera. I stuck our little camera out of the car window and snapped this before he flew away. We do not claim to be photographers.

Deer

Deer are pretty big animals. We see them often while birding. This one in Washington state photographed well on a foggy day.

Where's Waldo ?

I took this picture of a large Bald Eagle. The bird is somewhere in the center of this photograph. But honestly, I cannot find him. I forgot exactly where he is in the photo. If you see him, please tell me...

Thru the Scope

If you're thinking we just need magnification, so did we. Here is a photo of a Great Blue Heron (Phalacrocorax auritus) taken through my spotting-scope. It's a blurry shadowed mess.

Again I state, for the record, we are not professionally trained photographers.

-Robert