{"id":3415,"date":"2015-11-08T15:44:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T21:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2015-11-09T20:19:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T02:19:32","slug":"rio-grande-valley-birding-festival-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/08\/rio-grande-valley-birding-festival-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday and Saturday this past week, I guided nature photography groups on tours to South Padre Island and to the National Butterfly Center at Mission.\u00a0 The photographers were attending the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival in Harlingen with several hundred birders from around the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0Since photographers need to get much closer to their subjects than birders and they need to spend more time with a\u00a0subject than birders,\u00a0it helps to have the groups\u00a0separated.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the images I captured while coaching the other photographers.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Click on the right edge of photos to enlarge and sharpen them for better viewing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shots from the RGV Birding Festival Photo Trip to South Padre Island:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bird<\/a>
Tricolored Heron stands aside while birders look for less conspicuous subjects at South Padre Island.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Belted<\/a>
Belted Kingfisher flying across the South Padre Island Birding Center marsh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Brown<\/a>
Brown Pelicans on the wing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Brown<\/a>
Brown Pelicans fishing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0I was lucky enough to capture\u00a0these brown pelicans as they hit the\u00a0Laguna Madre.<\/p>\n

\"Great<\/a>
Great Blue Heron in threat posture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The following shots are from our RGV Birding Festival trip to the National Butterfly Center:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Altamira<\/a>
Altamira Oriole on hackberry limb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dragonfly<\/a>
Dragonfly at National Butterfly Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Golden-fronted<\/a>
Golden-fronted Woodpecker on hackberry tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Green<\/a>
Green Jay perched<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Screech<\/a>
Screech Owl that can READ!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More photos from this summer and fall, coming soon.<\/p>\n

*** For anyone looking to get a bargain on some photography equipment, here are\u00a0several items recently offered for sale by a Corpus Christi photographer.\u00a0 If you are interested, let me know and I’ll give you his email address.<\/span><\/p>\n

Canon 600 mm f4 IS lens with lens coat neopreme cover; Canon 100-400 mm f5.6 lens; EOS 1D Mark III, EOS 7D, and EOS 50D cameras.\u00a0 The original boxes, straps, etc. come with these.<\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday and Saturday this past week, I guided nature photography groups on tours to South Padre Island and to the National Butterfly Center at Mission.\u00a0 The photographers were attending the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival in Harlingen with several hundred birders from around the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0Since photographers need to get much closer to their subjects … Continue reading Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival 2015<\/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-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","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=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}