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End of June Dragonflies and Damselflies

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Common Baskettail Dragonfly, Epitheca cynosura

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Slowly Learning…

So as I mentioned in my last post, I’m slowly learning how to use my new Canon EOS R5 camera to photograph nature. Mostly birds, but I also photograph anything else that catches my fancy when I’m out walking around every day. Right now, I’m working with the following equipment: a Canon EOS R5 camera, the Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM lens, and the Canon Extender RF 1.4X to get a bit more range. I don’t quite have the RF setup yet for doing true macro ...
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Birding, Nature

Birding Paraphernalia

Back in my youth, I’d just grab a pair of binoculars and go birding. Life was simple. I generally used a pair of 10×40 binoculars but even though I had a really good pair, they got attacked by fungus and I got a new set of binoculars that are 10×42. I don’t like them as well, but they work. Since I started using eBird ( http://ebird.org ) to track bird sightings, I also discovered that I could add photos to my bird lists, and it seemed like a great idea. So I got a ...
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Purple Finch
Birding, Nature

Happy Holidays

Wintertime and the holidays are upon us, and I wanted to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season, full of family, friends, and good spirits. At this time of year, all of our “gaudily-colored” birds have flown south for the winter, just like all the flowers in my garden have gone to seed. However, that doesn’t mean that all of the beauty of nature is dormant–far from it. Beauty now is more delicate and requires a more contemplative eye to discover it. Instead of the ...
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Dark-eyed Junco
Astronomy, Birding

Holiday Time

The year is almost over when the holiday season begins but it’s a wonderful season. Despite everything (like COVID) this starts one of my favorite times of the year. Friends, family and good cheer–and that’s just part of it. I love birding in the winter, in fact, that’s the best time to go birding because there are fewer mosquitoes, ticks, and poisonous snakes with which to contend. No more spraying down with bug spray and struggling to put on snake boots before I ...
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North Carolina Swamp
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Restoring the Swamp

When we first moved to our house, all around us was swampland with a few agricultural fields out front. After twenty years of living there, the owners of the swampland have been aging and a few have passed on. Unfortunately, although we tried to convince folks to do something to conserve the swamp, they ignored us and their heirs have been clear cutting the swamp. It’s sad, but that’s the way of the world. We couldn’t afford to buy all of the swamp, but after they clear ...
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