The Bird Weekly Photo Challenge Week #40 by Lisa Coleman is all about birds in black & white, sepia, monotone or you can add a bit of selective color. Your choice of birds this week. She aligned this with Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week in case you wanted to add any flying birds to this challenge. Cee’s theme is Anything in Fight. Thanks again to Cee Neuner for the lovely featured blogger award for last week. It’s such an honor. Also, Terri with Sunday Stills offered a theme of Best Black and White Photos on 3/14 and her challenge runs until Saturday if you want to link to her challenge as well.
I am following suit with Lisa and linking this to all three photo challenges.
Since I am still a total neophyte with birds, some of you will have to help me with bird names. I found the Australian birds listed on Wikipedia complete with pictures. Wow! There is another site for North American birds as well, but I don’t even know where to start.
These beauties currently live on Watson Lake on Peavine Trail in Prescott, AZ. There are lots of happy ducks scooting across the water, but these don’t look like ducks. I love the shadow of the bigger bird onto the smaller bird’s side. I didn’t notice it in the color shot, so that was a beg advantage.
Speaking of ducks, this Australian quacker has a lot to say to Carol and me about our photographic etiquette. Apparently, we forgot to ask him to sign a media release. He has kind eyes, though, and that tells the rest of the story. He was happy to sign for a fee, just a little bite of quacker, I mean cracker. Don’t tell other birders, though. (PS, birders, don’t worry, this story is almost 100% fiction. No birds were fed).
These birds love to pose. It’s like they know how beautiful they are. It does help to have a camera with a zoom lens, however.
My Reading List
These participants in Lisa’s challenge finished before I did. I’m sorry I missed others who are flying in on the red eye. 🙂
Here are some of Cee’s friends. I may not get to all of you this week, but I’ve got your number.
- Freda
- No Fixed Plans
- Pictures Imperfect
- Travel with Intent
- Debby
- Anthropologist
- Tish
- Light Words
- My Camera and I
Terri’s participants.
- And Anyways
- Bushboy’s World
- Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
- Cee’s Photo Challenges
- A Day in the Life
- Deb’s World
- Denyse Whelan Blogs
- Easin’ Along Image in Comments
- EquipoiseLife
- Frost on the Moosedung
- Graham’s Island
- Hugh’s View and News
- JP the Wide-Eyed Wanderer
- Kamerapromenader
- NEW Kanlaon
- Light Write Life
- Mazee Puran (Better late than never for “rainy day”)
- Musin’ With Susan
- Now At Home
- Nuthouse Central
- Picture Retirement
- Picture This
- NEW Restless Jo
- Retirement Reflections
- Retirementally Challenged
- Shutters on the World
- Stevie Turner
- Take a Walk
- The Bloggler
- The Day After
- NEW The Sandy Chronicles
- Travel with Me
- Troyers Loving Life
- Women Living Well After 50
- Woolley Muses
I’ll be hosting Sunday Stills for two weeks, March 28 – Respect Your Cat and April 4 – Volunteering. I hope you’ll join me.
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