{"id":2505,"date":"2013-09-11T10:11:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2013-09-11T10:11:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T15:11:25","slug":"south-padre-island-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/11\/south-padre-island-rainbows\/","title":{"rendered":"South Padre Island Rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, Allen Dale and I headed out to South Padre Island with telephotos in hand with the hope of finding some migrant birds.\u00a0 For new birds, the morning was a total bomb, but the trip was not a loss.\u00a0\u00a0I had grabbed my backpack with landscape equipment (almost as an afterthought)\u00a0when I left home.\u00a0 What a stroke of good fortune that was.<\/p>\n

Just as we arrived at the island, a light rain began falling, then the sun popped through the clouds.\u00a0 As the mist moved out over the Laguna Madre, a fantastic double-rainbow appeared.\u00a0 I raced (at tortoise speed) to the car, grabbed my Canon 5D Mark II and 24-105 lens with polarizing filter.\u00a0 The\u00a0rainbow lasted\u00a0almost 30 minutes, which\u00a0was enough\u00a0time to capture the Convention Center and then the Laguna Madre marsh in the best light.<\/p>\n

If you have\u00a0ever photographed rainbows with a polarizing filter on\u00a0the lens, you know it\u00a0can make the color pop.\u00a0 The landscapes below were done while hand-holding the camera at\u00a0ISO 200.<\/p>\n

When the morning weather event ended, we wound up on the boardwalk with the bird photo equipment and captured some young least bitterns moving about the cattails.<\/p>\n

* For best viewing, click in the upper right portion of a photo.\u00a0 It will enlarge and sharpen the shot.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Whale Wall at the South Padre Island Convention Center with rainbow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Laguna Madre marsh and rainbow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Back Porch at the Convention Center and rainbow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Curious young Least Bitterns on the hunt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Young Least Bittern balancing on a cattail leaf.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I’m hoping to get a few ruby-throated hummingbird photos on\u00a0our back porch today, but the migration is pretty slow…so far.<\/p>\n

Larry<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yesterday, Allen Dale and I headed out to South Padre Island with telephotos in hand with the hope of finding some migrant birds.\u00a0 For new birds, the morning was a total bomb, but the trip was not a loss.\u00a0\u00a0I had grabbed my backpack with landscape equipment (almost as an afterthought)\u00a0when I left home.\u00a0 What a … Continue reading South Padre Island Rainbows<\/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-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","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=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}