A quick look out the window early this morning revealed a brilliant sunrise might be in the offing. Thus, 40 minutes before dawn I ventured outside with my camera. Wow! It was worth getting windblown and cold. I hope you will agree.
Today’s bird … a magpie greeting the dawn
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15 minutes later, as the pinkish rose gave way to yellows and orange.
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And Finally later today, not a magpie or crow!
Although I captured some photos of crows and magpies today … my normal subjects deep in the Winter time Rockies, I decided to try something a bit different for today’s bird photo, and a bit abstract. Thus, I waited till a few minutes after sunset and took photographs for about one half hour of jet contrails … mechanical birds … their tails (or contrails)! I’ll have to try this again someday when I’m on the Great Plains. A flat landscape seems to work better than mountains for capturing this idea, but it was still a fun photoshoot.
A huge storm was coming down the valley just before I was lucky enough to spot this magpie about an hour before sunset. From the top of a huge snowbank I could just capture the magpie, much of the pine tree and a small mountain in the background.
