{"id":3367,"date":"2015-09-01T07:58:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T12:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2015-09-01T07:58:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T12:58:38","slug":"last-week-at-santa-clara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/01\/last-week-at-santa-clara\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week at Santa Clara"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, I hit the Santa Clara Photo Ranch twice and came away with a few pleasing images.\u00a0 This time of year, the birds are pretty “ratty”, but there was a lot of action with deer, rabbits and birds around the water holes.\u00a0 White-winged doves\u00a0swarmed\u00a0to the ponds\u00a0every afternoon\u00a0and my seeing them by the hundreds was pretty special.<\/p>\n

Click on any of these photos and they will enlarge and sharpen for better viewing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cottontail<\/a>
Cottontail Rabbit in the shade.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Groove-billed<\/a>
Groove-billed Anis drinking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"White-winged<\/a>
White-winged Doves staging at the pond before coming to drink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"White-winged<\/a>
White-winged Doves are jumpy when drinking 15′ from the photo blind and cameras are clicking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m really enjoying the 70-200 mm lens for groups of birds and mammals at the photo blind waterhole.\u00a0 It insures that I have plenty of shutter speed, sharpness and\u00a0wide angle\u00a0for flapping wings during the last hour of daylight.<\/p>\n

\"White-winged<\/a>
White-winged Dove flying in for a drink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Canon 7D Mark II, 70-200 mm lens hand held, 1\/4000 sec. @ f5.6, ISO 640, hand held.<\/p>\n

\"Ground<\/a>
Ground Squirrel slipping out of the shadows to grab a drink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Thirsty<\/a>
Thirsty greater roadrunner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Nervous<\/a>
Nervous white-winged doves gathering for their last drink of the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s been fun shooting at the ranch ponds but I’m sure glad fall is around the corner.\u00a0 My rattling around in the cooler for a cold\u00a0drink always disturbs the wildlife.<\/p>\n

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

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Last week, I hit the Santa Clara Photo Ranch twice and came away with a few pleasing images.\u00a0 This time of year, the birds are pretty “ratty”, but there was a lot of action with deer, rabbits and birds around the water holes.\u00a0 White-winged doves\u00a0swarmed\u00a0to the ponds\u00a0every afternoon\u00a0and my seeing them by the hundreds was … Continue reading Last Week at Santa Clara<\/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-3367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367","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=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3377,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions\/3377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}