Posted by Joel Rosenthal on February 21, 2016 at 02:10:45
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Thanks to John Hutchinson for leading an enjoyable and productive trip today, and to all who attended and helped me spot the few birds I was able to capture on what passes for film now. There are about 45 or so photographs on my Flickr site: https://www.flickr.com/photos/joelnrosenthal/ of birds seen this morning--when you get to the photos of the screech owl in my backyard, you've gone past today's images... As usual, click on the images to enlarge them--surprisingly many of them are not too heavily cropped(excepting the usual warblers and the soaring snail kite)-since John seems to have some capacity to get birds within reasonable distance for photography. My best bird image today is the great crested flycatcher, which joined us for/at lunch-although I missed the shots of his caterpillar entree. Those images are only sharpened-no color enhanced, or shadows manipulated etc. I would have liked to have done better with the black throated green-but the light was poor and the tree limbs obscuring-but the flash did capture some of his green wash. Captions to each photo to follow when I get around to it...