Cold Weather Woes

The cold weather has been helpful for keeping bald eagles confined to the places that have open water which helps make it easier to know where you have the best chance to see them.  But the crazy weather has also led to me not being able to get out much because of snow, ice, rain, and freezing temperatures.  But I hopefully will be able to get out a few more times before I go back to college next week. 

Because I have not really had many chances to photograph anything I was looking through some of my old photographs from last year and realized I did not upload some of the images.  So I decided to upload them now and hopefully soon I will have some new photographs.  One of the photographs is an immature bald eagle, and the other photograph is of a red squirrel.  I also noticed that I have been having a problem with lighting of my pictures from when they are on my computer and when I upload them.  Sometimes they appear lighter and other times there dark.  I am not sure why but I will try to fix this in further posts. Until next time.

Happy New Year

Last break was very disappointing.  I really didn’t see anything I could photograph.  But this winter break has been much better.  So far I have seen many bald eagles, and an assortment of ducks, including common mergansers, black ducks, and hooded mergansers.  It has been a very good start to break and I am hoping it continues.

It started slowly this break but since the temperatures have dropped and the amount of open water has diminished the bald eagle population is contained in a smaller section of the reservoirs that I frequent.  I have plans to update some of my pages because they are getting outdated.  I plan to change some of the reviews to more relevant cameras and some other updates. 

 

 

I uploaded a few of the bald eagle photographs that I have gotten recently and I am also uploading a photograph of a common merganser that I took.  I was a little upset with myself that I overexposed many of the bald eagle photographs but it wasn’t so bad.

 

 I also will now be uploading full resolution photographs on flickr because they now offer 1TB of space.  So I will upload the full shots to flickr.  Hope you enjoy the photographs.  Until next time.        

Break from College

Break is coming up in a few days and I am looking forward to going home.  I am hoping that over the break I will at least get a few days to get out and enjoy the wilderness.  I will probably also start looking into where the best spots will be to photograph eagles this year as every year scenery changes and old spots close and new ones open.  Depending on tree growth and other things.  I like to start early because then I know when I get there which spot is the best and know exactly where I want to set up.  I am also hoping that I can set up some feeders at my house and hopefully get some shots of some local birds and see what I can see.  Plus I will be spending time with my family which is always nice.  But these breaks for me are always just about relaxing and enjoying my time in the wilderness and not at a college with thousands of other people.  So I should be updating soon as long as I get some photographs over my break.  Also after this break I only have 3 weeks of school then I'm home for about a month for Christmas Break.  So I should be able to get some nice photographs in the coming months.  Until next time. 

Photographs From Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge

I finally got the chance this weekend to look over the photographs I took while on my trip at  the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge.  I was a little disappointed but I did get a couple shots of the Great Blue Heron but there was very harsh lighting.  So they did not turn out to great.

But while uploading some of the pictures I realized I had some photographs from my last Bashakill Wildlife Management Area Trip that I never got a chance to look at.  So I have a couple of photographs of Red Winged Black Birds that turned out okay.

 Until Next Time.

Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge

Over my college break about a week ago I finally got the chance to get outside and take some photographs.  It was long overdue in my opinion.  I feel like I am so busy with work that I can never get out and take pictures.  But I was finally able to go out and my father found a new place to check out and I was quite surprised.  I didn't even know about the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge and it was not very far from my house.  It seems like it is not advertised at all and I was lucky that my father came across it in the paper.  We walked the entire liberty loop.  Which is a good amount of walking but I think it was worth it.  There was just an abundance of all kinds of wildlife.  I saw a few Bald Eagles, Hawks, a Kestrel, Deer, six Great Egrets, a Great Blue Heron, Sandpipers, tons of ducks, and red wing black birds by the hundreds.  Plus numerous other species of birds.  Also there was a ton of huge grasshoppers.  I had never seen anything like it.  Every step I took about 20 flew up in front of me.  But overall I was very satisfied with the trip and I am hoping that I get time this weekend to upload some of the photographs that I took.  Most of the animals were to far away but I am pretty sure that I got a picture of a Great Blue Heron and maybe some other stuff.  But I won't be sure till I get the shots on my computer.  Until next time.