Battling the Elements

The night before we had a thunderstorm come through the area before all this crazy weather came in the next day. Yesterday Morning we had snow then flurries then more rain and then it went to sunny conditions , which is very rare after all these types of weather conditions.

I took advantage from the breaks in the rain to get outside and take dew droplet pictures on different plants and grasses around my neighborhood pond.

This spring so far has been very crazy for weather conditions and such as a nature photographer.

I started searching around the water edges around the pond to see if the American Duck had made a nest this year. She had made it in a different location near the end of the dam this year and she was well camouflaged this year compared to other years.

I have recently found the American Duck on her nest this year on her eggs and hoping to catch some pictures of the ducklings hatching this year which would be very cool to photograph.

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Right Sunrise conditions at Jordan Lake plus good birds

Today I did a sunrise shot with my photography mentor who seemed to be chimping some open his photos today.

This is a Great Blue Heron I took during the sunrise at Jordan Lake Today. We spotted a pair of them doing territorial stand offs which was impressive to photograph today as well.

This was the when the territorials between the two Great Blue Herons were fighting between which territory belonged to them. I got many good shots of this.

This is also a pair of Black Voltures that seemed to be enjoying this beautiful morning grooming and just hanging around the side of Jordan Lake which I also got many shots of them doing their grooming styles for the day.

The other photos I got included a swallowtail butterfly, bees and a new stump I got there today.
Here is a bee on the same flower that before the swallowtail was on.
Heres the swallowtail on flower that the bee was on.

And here's one of my stumps at Jordan Lake I photographed today and AL D is not allowed to pictures of this stump an…

Birding Story 17

Hey hey its al with another birding story this week.

Heres how this story goes for this week adventure of birding stories for the week.

The canadian geese decided to fly across from the other side of the pond at my neighborhood near the clubhouse to the other side of the pond near where I am curr

Hatching of Prey Mantis!!

Hey Hey its AL back with an exciting news from my house today! I have successfully, I have had 1 prey mantis egg sack today that hatched finally . I put 4 up in February 2020 and one hatched today which was amazing to watch and I got many pictures of them hatching from the egg sack today.

These are chins baby matins that recently had this morning and I got several different shots of them playing with each other after they were born out of the egg sack.

I have been waiting many years for the successfully hatching and it finally happened today! I got some portrait shots of them as well when they emerged from the egg sack as well.

I am looking forward to documenting and photographing the Chinese Mantis in the different life cycles this year and hopefully I get some more hatching pictures this week.

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