One of the most satisfying things to photograph are birds. They’re beautiful and graceful, colourful and elusive, sometimes also fast and camouflaged… all of which combines to make them that much more challenging and rewarding. Here are some of my faves, and where I took them. Every shot in this collection was the same lens; the Canon 100mm Prime f2.8.
Barn Owl, Vancouver Island BC
Budgies, Rome, Italy
Anhinga, Caño Negro, Costa Rica
Green Parrots – Agra, India
Brown Pelican, St Maartan
Emerald Hummingbirds, Quepos, Costa Rica
Emerald Hummingbird, Monte Verde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica
Spectacle Owl, Vancouver Island, BC
Jabiru, Caño Negro, Costa Rica
Kingfisher, Caño Negro, Costa Rica
Blue Heron, Victoria BC
Green Heron, St Maartan
Truly great shots. The birds are beautiful
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I love that green heron wing. great catch! these are wonderful pictures. Thank you!
Perfect captures.. Blue heron and emerald hummingbirds along with the nest. But in the last picture, is the head of Green Heron missing or got cropped out in pic?
Hi there! The Green Heron has been cropped out, it’s head is missing! I had lots of shots of this bird, (with it’s head in) but for some reason this was the one I liked best, so it’s the one I chose to share :)
I like that it’s cropped out because it brings a lot of attention to those marvelous wings!
I too agree with toesfeet, the crop indeed brings attention to the wings.. and they look beautiful!
Wow really nice shots! Love that spectacle owl :-)
Wow wow WOW — those owl shots are stunning!
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Amazing shots! Great composure with Spectacle Owl and Blue Heron.
These are fabulous! Lovely, lovely work.
You are a truly talented photographer. I especially love the photo taken in Rome, Italy. Beautiful and graceful! Love your work. :-)
Such lovely pictures. Always fun to see birds out in nature doing their thing:)
Gorgeous bird shots!
Wow !!! Beautiful photos…Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed…well deserved
Love the Humming Birds! :)
Love your pictures. Birds are the most beautiful creatures. I’m enjoying their chirps and feathers outside my window right now.
Beautiful, beautiful photos!
Great captures! stunningly beautiful!
Thanks for the beautiful photographs and congrats on being Freshly Pressed!
beautiful photos
I love capturing birds also except my lens is usually not fast enough…
awesome photos!
These are incredible pictures. The Kingfisher is positively stunning.
I really enjoy the Hummingbird with the nest. Very lovely greens. Hope to visit Costa Rica myself one day.
Great photos. I really like the one with the parakeets:)
These shots are truly gorgeous. I especially love the juxtaposition of birds with the human world.
Beautiful pictures, especially the hummingbirds and the green heron, albeit headless! The kingfisher almost resembles a tree swallow.
lovely shots !
beautiful, great and diverse shots! :)
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wow! amazing! ;)
The Spectacled Owl is awesome, very nicely done.
Awesome set, great blend of stillness and flight.
You have some amazing pics. I especially love the pic with the budgies. I’d love to share this pic on my facebook/twitter if you don’t mind.
For sure! Thanks for asking :)
Great job. Beautiful pics from one bird lover to another :)
Gorgeous!
& Congratulations!!!
Beautiful photos and beautiful birds. There are many species where I live but it’s very hard to photograph them. They get scared easily.
Gorgeous. I in particular like the second owl picture.
Wow…you’re quite talented! Love them all, but I have a soft spot for the budgies. The budgie on the very right looks exactly like the one I used to own growing up. :)
Very nice photos :) I also love taking photos of birds – mainly seabirds!
hardcore! got any big parrot photos! I have lots, but they’re all of the same parrot…
Very beautiful photos! I especially love the Spectacle Owl in Vancouver–he has so much emotion and majesty. What a wonderful photo.
Fabulous pictures! I want to wear the Emerald hummingbird’s nest!
Amazing photos!
bird photography is one of my passions – i loved seeing your work. for some reason i find the budgies particularly endearing. :)
Beautiful birds! great shots!
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Lovely shots and those are really cute and colorful parrots. :)
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Love the photos, especially the owls!
The two hummingbirds are my favorite but all these are absolutely incredible!
These are amazing. I have tried my hand at birds but never had the success like these. Thanks for sharing.
wow this is truly amazing photo… thank you for sharing.. love them all, my favorite is emerald colibri.. so cute…..
The details in these photos are beautiful!
Hi, i was so happy to see your first photo is of a barn owl since i have a baby owl 6 weeks old and i love her to bits.
Your photos are so beautiful.
Gorgeous photos of gorgeous birds! Being partial to owls, I really like your owl pictures. :)
Excellent shots!
Cool shots! That first owl looks like it’s judging me, haha ;)
These pictures are unreal! My favourite are the hummingbirds. Absolutely stunning. Photos like these makes you appreciate mother nature, earth and all living things.
Cool Photos – Congrats on being FP!
Gorgeous photos. Well done.
Beautiful shots! Thank you so much for sharing!
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brilliant! love the budgies!
I love your photos! I have a few birdfeeders in my backyard and I absolutley love watching all the finches, redbirds and chicadees that come visit me each morning. You’ve got me thinking about getting a better camera so that I can snap some better photos of them. Thank you so much for sharing! -Maddie
Your Green Heron is breathtaking. I love the composure adding emphasis to the wings. You might want to check the Kingfisher picture. It appears to be a Tree Swallow. These are all wonderful shots. It looks like the birds posed for you! Costa Rica is a great place for hummingbirds!
Thanks for the heads up! I’ll see if I can get an ID check on that little blue bird :) (I went with what my nature guide told me, but he could be wrong!)
A great site to check out birds is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology “all about birds” guide. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Tree_Swallow/id
love it! really I love it! no doubt about it!
Good photos. I like em. My favorite is the second one. Very cool shots too.
Wonderful Pictures! I love the Barn Owl! :D
Awsome photographs! keep up the good work!
Ahhh the Hummingbird’s are majestic. Beautiful Images!
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truly great pic’s like it very much…
Beautiful birds! Love the pictures!
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wow!!! beautiful and colourful birds.It is one of the most satisfying things to photograph are birds. Really they’re beautiful and graceful, colourful and elusive, sometimes also fast and camouflage. which combines to make them that much more challenging and rewarding.My favourite are the hummingbirds. Absolutely stunning. Photos.Thanks for sharing.
amazing shots! i cant pick a favorite. it takes a lot of skill to capture shots like these, i should know!
What a delightful post! I love watching the birds in the morning out on the ranch here in northern California. So beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful birds photograph.That first owl looks beautiful.Gorgeous photos of gorgeous birds! I am happy to see your all photos.
Indeed challenging to take nature photos, especially that of animals. I like owls, they seems to be deep in thought
The colors are surreal. What a great collection. Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed, it’s well deserved!
birds never give loss to anyone ,birds is one of the beauty of world so love them…
These shots are beautiful… I agree birds are so beautifully colorful and very tough to capture at times
Nature sure can mix and match colors and get away with it !! Great photos, thanks for sharing.
Beautiful pictures!! I love birds!! My favorite is the barn owl. Absolutely stunning!!! I am looking forward to seeing many more pictures. You are very talented! Thank you for sharing!!! Come check out my blog! http://www.katzfood.wordpress.com. Good luck to you!
I definitely will! Thanks for sharing :)
I really liked the composition of your photo’s. We lived at a lake for 25 years and were lucky to have many species like Pelican, Haron, Ducks etc. But never got shots like yours, good job. The hummingbird on nest was my favorite so I PIN’d it. Thank you.
Thank you!
WE have a budgie! You did such a good job of capturing their many moods in one photo.
Great post. I love birds! The humming bird shots are great.
That Kingfisher is amazing, such beautiful colors! Great job capturing these wonderful creatures on camera!
I love to feed the wild birds just put a bird swing out in view of the humming bird feeder very cute. Congratulations making freshly pressed!
Beautiful work! It takes a lot of patience to photograph birds.
Cool photos. Congrats. :)
Unas imagenes preciosas.
I’m partial to the hummingbird photo since I love hummingbirds and find it incredible that photographers (such as yourself) are able to capture their wings in flight, but I have to say, the colours in that wing of the blue heron is stunning! What a great compilation of photos and talent!
I love birds too, come from a family that enjoys photographing avians, but still have not mastered the art of photographing birds. You, on the other hand, have done a fabulous job. What a lovely post.
Ooooh, I like the last one. Almost gone, but still a beautiful shot of the wings. Tried hummingbirds too, very hard, but also very rewarding when you succeed in capturing them.
Beautiful photographs!
wow, the photographs were so wow :)
but i’m wondering what happened with the last frame? why it’s croped?
Haha, it’s been an ongoing discussion in the comments section – I had many photos of this bird, I used maximum burst to shoot it taking off. This last shot had it’s head cropped off, but it was the one I liked best and the one I chose to share because the detail on the wings is so lovely here. I think the general consensus is that it worked out well ;)
Beautiful captures of the wildlife here. I especially love the last photograph of the Green Heron. It’s different in that it doesn’t focus on the entire bird, but only the incredible detail in its feathers. Thanks for sharing your great images!
- Nate
wow huming birds :p
Wonderful photos. I’m new at photography, but love birding so have combined the two, myself. The hummingbird with nest is sweet and beautiful. Congrats on being freshly pressed!
Great Photo’s Wish my photography could look that great
I love it!
Beautiful shots! I’m so impressed that you found those owls. I love the Anhinga.
I love the emerald hummingbirds!
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you’re photography is amazing:)xx
Just absolutely gorgeous… great photos, I love birds :) The spectacle owl is spectacular!!
The Budgies in Rome! Great stuff.
BEAUTIFUL! In love with the Spectacle Owl :)
Such a beautiful blog. I love birds. Have two horned owls outside my house most nights. They say it is a sign that someone is going to pass away. I have learned that in reality it is a sign that there are a bunch of rabbits, squirrels, rats and other good things for them to eat around. Your blog is fantastic and all birds are beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
I literally gasped when I saw the anhinga. Wow. All of these shots are just beautiful. Thank you for having the patience and talent to take them!
Beautiful shots of beautiful birds. You have quite an eye. I especially like the budgies.
Lovely images! The green parrot in Agra India is commonly known as an Indian Ringneck parrot (or parakeet). They are super noisy and gregarious, but I loved seeing them in the wild when I was there.
Beautiful birdies!
I sent this to my mother in law. she loves birds. What beautiful photographs
Stunning images, the emerald hummingbirds are a real standout! And the kingfisher…and the owls! x
Wow, those pix instantly peaced me out! Re-Freshing!!! Thanks!
The depth of color in your photos is stunning…The birds make me feel happy and peaceful. Thank you for sharing, Erin, Bella Bleue
Awesome Pictures, I love how the barn owl looks spiritual.
The crop on the heron really works!
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Beautiful photos – Maybe we can collaborate sometime?
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Oh wow, these are gorgeous. I’m a sucker for birds.
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I really LOVE the two hummingbirds ♥
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These pictures are amazing! Birds are so hard to shoot because of the constant movement but you make it look easy! I admire your skills! Love the collection! :)
Beautiful birds, Nice photography
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That green heron shot is awesome… actively dodging our gaze… elusive little bugger.
Wow. You are amazing because it is a challenge capture beautiful photos of the birds in flight.
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I love those birds shots, being NYParrot and all;). Seriously – great job capturing beautiful moments on the fly!
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These are really good picture and pretty amazing to see !
The Rome pic is gorrrrgeous
My favourites; Spectacle owl and the 2 Humming birds frozen in time.
These pictures are wonderful! I love all kinds of birds. Owls are my favorite though so I was thrilled to see pictures of them:)
What beautiful photographs! I love the hummingbirds and the pelican, and that green parrot against the red brick in India.
These are absolutely AMAZING! Firm favourite of the humming birds for me! Fantastic! xx
Great hummingbird shots, I know they’re hard to get!
Great shots. I’m pretty sure that’s not a kingfisher though. Looks to be a swallow.
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incredible artistic – love all of them, but especially the first owl
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Love the pictures! I wish my bird pictures would come out as well. The picture of the Jabiru reminds me of Icarus flying too close to the sun!