{"id":1377,"date":"2011-06-16T11:36:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T16:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2011-06-16T11:36:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T16:36:06","slug":"shooting-close-to-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/16\/shooting-close-to-home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Close to Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been shooting close to home for the past couple of weeks.\u00a0 Last week, I was at the National Audubon Society Sabal Palm Sanctuary looking for a rare masked duck…saw it but couldn’t get close.\u00a0 This week, I have photographed a pair of altamira orioles going to and from their nest.\u00a0 Some of those shots were ok, but the background was busy.\u00a0 We raised our scaffold to eye-level, so I expect the next shoot to be very productive.<\/p>\n

I am ordering a few cold-weather apparel items for this fall’s Bosque del Apache Photo Tour.\u00a0\u00a0Let me know if you would like to go.\u00a0\u00a0Bosque is\u00a0a fabulous photo location in\u00a0 November-December.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, I tried ordering a Canon Flash Booster and discovered\u00a0it is another of the items we can’t get right now because supplies were interrupted by\u00a0the tsunami.\u00a0 My old flash booster with\u00a0the 2\u00a0lb. battery gave up the ghost.\u00a0 It was not a Canon brand item and was way too bulky to suit me.\u00a0 I hear\u00a0great things about the Canon booster which just requires 8 AA batteries.<\/p>\n

Here are a couple of shots from the south Texas area.\u00a0 Click in the upper right portion of the photos to enlarge them and to get a sharper, brighter image.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Entrance road to the Sabal Palm Sanctuary in east Brownsville, Texas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Those palms (above) overhanging the Palm Sanctuary’s entrance road are\u00a0native Sabal Palms.\u00a0 That grove is one of the few sites remaining in south Texas where the palms have not been cleared.\u00a0 Several conservation organizations and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service\u00a0are restoring other sites to palms.\u00a0 There are also resacas (ox bows) of the Rio Grande on the Sanctuary which provide habitat for many birds and other wildlife.<\/div>\n
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This Great Kiskadee was resting in a black willow near its nest over a resaca at the Sabal Palm Sanctuary.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Roseate<\/a>
Roseate Skimmer resting on grass at the Santa Clara Ranch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Altamira<\/a>
Altamira Oriole leaving the nest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Altamira<\/a>
Altamira Oriole exiting its sack-like nest in a south Texas liveoak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
If you can take the heat, this is a great time to be at the south Texas photo ranches…<\/div>\n
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Scissor-tailed Flycatchers and other birds are visiting the waterholes and blinds at Dos Venadas Ranch as the summer heat forces everything to stay close to water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Have a good week in the field!<\/div>\n
Larry<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been shooting close to home for the past couple of weeks.\u00a0 Last week, I was at the National Audubon Society Sabal Palm Sanctuary looking for a rare masked duck…saw it but couldn’t get close.\u00a0 This week, I have photographed a pair of altamira orioles going to and from their nest.\u00a0 Some of those shots … Continue reading Shooting Close to Home<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}