Daily Archives: May 25, 2025
Blackburnian
Blackburnian Warber: Magee Marsh Boardwalk, Oak Harbor, Ohio, USA, May 2025 — Most years at the Biggest Week in American Birding on the Erie Shore in Ohio, I have to work hard for my first eye-level shots to a Blackburnian, and they don’t come until my last days there. This year this Blackburnian was working both sides of the boardwalk, at and below eye-level, for over 3 hours on my first day in Ohio. And he was close! Occasionally I thought he might hop inside to my lens hood to look at his reflection. Such a treat! Blackburnian is, by the way, a name I hope survives the great honorific culling…it is just such a perfect name for this little blank and burning warbler. I guess they can change it to Blackburning. That would be okay. 🙂 Black and Orange will not do. Sorry. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program with my birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator and assembled in FrameMagic.
Jacamar again
Rufous-tailed Jacamar: Pierrella Ecology Gardens, Sarapiqui, Costa Rica, March 2025 — Once the Jacamar had finished the Blue Morpho butterfly (see yesterday’s post for that story). It sat on an open perch, again, right in front of us…perhaps hoping for another. I always think Jacamars look like huge hummingbirds. For me at least, it is a bird, and this was an experience, that had me jittering on the edge of too much wonder to contain. I am sure I was grinning ear to ear, and so were all those with me. And, while I was disappointed to find my camera in the wrong mode when I finished…still, I have a record of that wonder. Goes to show you. Goes to show me. It is not really about what I do…it is about what the birds are doing. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program with my macro modifications (by mistake). Processed in Photomator.