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russellmav.com
Bird Photographer
@russellmav.com
I am a wildlide photographer focusing on local birds around Tampa, FL.

🔵Photographing birds for over 5 yrs
⚪️My work has been featured by groups like Animal Planet and NatGeo
🔵Projects with local sanctuaries and FL Aquarium
⚪️Proud partner of MPB
Check this out - why is he so pretty with a well kept moustache and eye liner 😂
December 9, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Anyway - here is the alpha male of the group I encountered. He was very calm and seemingly checked me out for a few minutes before the others emerged and passed by!
December 9, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Here are some shots of this little rhesus monkey I was able to capture. After some heavy rainfall, I knew they'd be out to forage and I was fortunate enough to find them. Even more fortunately, they provided me with many intimate moments to photograph! Taken in Central Florida
December 9, 2024 at 7:28 PM
This was the male owl from a great-horned owl nest I watched this year. The forest in this area has such amazing depth that made it an ideal photography location (as long as you didn't want a ton of light)
December 3, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Thank you! I love this shot - nice one! We have some little blues that frequent our back pond, so I am very fond of them.

Also, I get to try out some unorthodox shots since I see them pretty regularly. Here's some fun ones with way too narrow of a focal point 😂 fish eye, then bird eye
November 28, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Any idea whether this violet sabrewing from Costa Rica is molting? That's my best guess - otherwise, maybe a young male still developing his fully mature plumage?
November 27, 2024 at 12:16 AM
Also - here's our rescue bird! Kiwi

Kiwi is a nanday parakeet. He had some traumatric head and neck injuries during a hurricane. By the time he was recovered, he was too accustomed to life indoors, so now he is my bestfriend
November 23, 2024 at 2:56 AM
I'll slowly share all my favorite photos I've taken so far too. Instead pf starting with my favorite, which I'd never settle on. Here is a backlit photo of a sandhill crane and her colt!
November 22, 2024 at 10:37 PM