jedirunner
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Ok, so the setting is less than picturesque (really? you built a mud nest on top of a light bulb in my dad's carport?) ... but, when I arrived for the family visit, I was told several times by my extended family to try to get pics of the baby swallows up in the nest. So I went to work...
Oh, and by the way, barn swallows don't want you anywhere near their nest. Mom and Dad took turns doing fly-bys trying to get me to go chase them rather than look at their kids. Like, they took turns flying in circles in and out of the car port to lure me away. And they're fast... about every 5 seconds I was getting buzzed by mommy and daddy swallow.
Sorry for the quality ... it was high ISO in the dark car port in order to keep aperture and shutter where I wanted them. Even then shutter wasn't as fast as it probably should have been.
1. We're hungry, mama!
2. Just back from the bee-mart
3. One fed ... more to go...
Also saw a turkey vulture (the tamron 200-500 got me close enough for identifiable pics as it made its circular hunting sweeps pretty far away, but didn't get anything post-worthy)
Fun times.
Kevin
Oh, and by the way, barn swallows don't want you anywhere near their nest. Mom and Dad took turns doing fly-bys trying to get me to go chase them rather than look at their kids. Like, they took turns flying in circles in and out of the car port to lure me away. And they're fast... about every 5 seconds I was getting buzzed by mommy and daddy swallow.
Sorry for the quality ... it was high ISO in the dark car port in order to keep aperture and shutter where I wanted them. Even then shutter wasn't as fast as it probably should have been.
1. We're hungry, mama!
2. Just back from the bee-mart
3. One fed ... more to go...
Also saw a turkey vulture (the tamron 200-500 got me close enough for identifiable pics as it made its circular hunting sweeps pretty far away, but didn't get anything post-worthy)
Fun times.
Kevin