Bird Photography

“Sometimes I think that the point of birdwatching is not the actual seeing of the birds, but the cultivation of patience. Of course, each time we set out, there's a certain amount of expectation we'll see something, maybe even a species we've never seen before, and that it will fill us with light. But even if we don't see anything remarkable - and sometimes that happens - we come home filled with light anyway.”  ― Lynn Thomson, Birding with Yeats: A Memoir

Most of these birds were from Gilbert Water Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona.  The Barn Owl was from the Raptor Free Flight Demonstration at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson, Arizona.  The set of three images of Sandhill Cranes were from Whitewater Draw south of Tucson, Arizona.

Black Necked Stilts

Green Heron

Ring-necked Ducks

Ring-necked Duck

American Avocet

Kingfisher

Juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron

Northern Shoveler

Verdin

Male Ruddy Duck

Pied-billed Grebe

Female Hooded Merganser

Great Egret

Anna's Hummingbird

Sandhill Cranes

Sandhill Cranes

Sandhill Cranes

Adult and Juvenile Harris Hawk

Barn Owl

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron