I drove to the refuge because the rain had stopped. There was water over the road in one spot, like a puddle. If I had been driving something more low to the ground I wouldn’t have chanced it. I got really lucky and the refuge was open, they closed it again the next day.
Something was shiny and moving in a field. Binocs showed that it was a fish. He probably got to the field when the water was high. Poor fishy. The super zoom caught the scales of the fish the Sony, not a bit.
Carp
Raven’s using Nikon superzoom
However, the superzoom can’t really get clear photos of moving subjects. And the Sony really can. I really need to get the bigger lens.
Gull on the wing:
Long billed curlew:
Pelican’s on the wing
Tree Swallows
Avocets with new camera
Avocets with old camera
I haven’t yet tried to crop the Sony image to zoom in. I have a feeling that would be interesting, and similar and possibly better than the superzoom.
Bird list:
- northern harriers
- red tailed hawk
- american kestrel
- red winged blackbirds
- yellow headed blackbirds
- starlings
- house sparrows
- vesper sparrows
- killdeer
- american avocets
- great blue herons
- sandhill cranes
- coots
- mallards
- cinnamon teals
- northern pintails
- ruddy ducks
- gadwalls
- american wigeons
- eared grebes
- clark’s grebes
- western grebes
- trumpeter swans
- canada geese
- double crested cormorant
- marsh wren
- tree swallows
- cliff swallows
- robins
- crows
- ravens
- magpies
- western meadowlark
- long billed curlew
- california gull
- american white pelican
— Jenny
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