Today was my second day in Ohio photographing songbirds with Matthew Studebaker. If you missed it, I talked more about Matthew in yesterday’s post. Today started out wet, really wet. The rain was coming down hard for quite a while. But that doesn’t hamper the birds. The orioles were out singing en masse. We had …
This weekend I had the good fortune to spend time shooting with Matthew Studebaker – one of the best songbird photographers. You can see Matthew’s work here. Matthew is particularly great at getting beautiful songbirds, especially warblers, in beautiful settings. Today began wet, but with a vibrant sun as you can tell from this singing …
As I woke up today in my tent, it felt great to have another try at the warblers. I knew they were out there as I had heard many yesterday, I just either couldn’t find them or get them out of tangled brush. Today wound up being significantly more successful, although I didn’t wind up …
The last two times I had been out, it seemed like I was getting better and better at finding and photographing the spring warblers. Well that didn’t continue today as I tried for some of the early warblers that come to southern Michigan. Too much of a good thing breeds complacency – at least that’s …
I had another warbler day down here in southern Ohio. I felt like either I’m starting to become more attuned to the warblers or else I’m got pretty lucky. One of the keys with warblers is to use your ears. With large birds, you often find them just by looking in the right places. This …