West Coast Birder
@westcoastbirder.bsky.social
Retired engineer. Politically further left than most. Bleed Dodger blue. Splitting time between Portland, Oregon and Santa Barbara, California.
Pied-billed grebe in the UC Santa Barbara campus lagoon. The area around Campus Point and the lagoon is an extremely productive birding location. Easy to get 50+ species on a 2-hour birding walk around there.
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Canon R7 + RF100-500L.
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Canon R7 + RF100-500L.
March 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Pied-billed grebe in the UC Santa Barbara campus lagoon. The area around Campus Point and the lagoon is an extremely productive birding location. Easy to get 50+ species on a 2-hour birding walk around there.
#birds 🦉
Canon R7 + RF100-500L.
#birds 🦉
Canon R7 + RF100-500L.
It is spring time and the red winged blackbird males are on full display with their epaulets and their song. Here is a magnificent specimen, photographed in Goleta, California. Click on photo for larger image.
Canon R7 + RF100-500L.
#birds 🦉
Canon R7 + RF100-500L.
#birds 🦉
March 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
It is spring time and the red winged blackbird males are on full display with their epaulets and their song. Here is a magnificent specimen, photographed in Goleta, California. Click on photo for larger image.
Canon R7 + RF100-500L.
#birds 🦉
Canon R7 + RF100-500L.
#birds 🦉
Post a warning.
March 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Post a warning.
Spring is here. The weather is gorgeous in my little corner of paradise and the California poppies are in riotous bloom! 🌿 #Nativeplants
March 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Spring is here. The weather is gorgeous in my little corner of paradise and the California poppies are in riotous bloom! 🌿 #Nativeplants
Can confirm. I just asked the same question and Grok replied with this. A bit more verbose but essentially the same answer.
March 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Can confirm. I just asked the same question and Grok replied with this. A bit more verbose but essentially the same answer.
I sympathize with every individual’s predicament, but should I file this under the “voted for the leopard eating face party, surprised when leopard eats his face” file?
February 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I sympathize with every individual’s predicament, but should I file this under the “voted for the leopard eating face party, surprised when leopard eats his face” file?
Long billed curlew at Devereux Beach, Goleta California. I love watching these birds use their amazing bills with the skill and precision of a surgeon wielding a scalpel.
Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
🪶#birds
Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
🪶#birds
February 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Long billed curlew at Devereux Beach, Goleta California. I love watching these birds use their amazing bills with the skill and precision of a surgeon wielding a scalpel.
Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
🪶#birds
Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
🪶#birds
If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery. 🌿 #nativeplants
This is my photo of wildflowers on Skyline Trail in that most beautiful of places, Mt. Rainier NP.
This is my photo of wildflowers on Skyline Trail in that most beautiful of places, Mt. Rainier NP.
January 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If you see this quote with flowers from your gallery. 🌿 #nativeplants
This is my photo of wildflowers on Skyline Trail in that most beautiful of places, Mt. Rainier NP.
This is my photo of wildflowers on Skyline Trail in that most beautiful of places, Mt. Rainier NP.
I switched from sunflower seeds to safflower seeds for my backyard feeders last season. They are just as nutritious from what I have read but considerably less expensive but the birds seem to love them just the same.
A male house finch partaking of the bounty.
Canon R7 + RF100-500L
#birds 🪶🦉
A male house finch partaking of the bounty.
Canon R7 + RF100-500L
#birds 🪶🦉
January 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I switched from sunflower seeds to safflower seeds for my backyard feeders last season. They are just as nutritious from what I have read but considerably less expensive but the birds seem to love them just the same.
A male house finch partaking of the bounty.
Canon R7 + RF100-500L
#birds 🪶🦉
A male house finch partaking of the bounty.
Canon R7 + RF100-500L
#birds 🪶🦉
If you see this post, post or quote post a Bridge from your photography or artwork.
Hawthorne Bridge and downtown Portland, Oregon from the Eastbank Esplanade.
Hawthorne Bridge and downtown Portland, Oregon from the Eastbank Esplanade.
January 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
If you see this post, post or quote post a Bridge from your photography or artwork.
Hawthorne Bridge and downtown Portland, Oregon from the Eastbank Esplanade.
Hawthorne Bridge and downtown Portland, Oregon from the Eastbank Esplanade.
Modern camera sensors are amazing! It was a pretty hazy day on the beach in Santa Barbara. I just dialed in exposure for the sunset and let the foreground be dark. Here are the straight-out-of-camera shot and the final version with shadow recovery. Lemons and lemonade!
Canon R5 + EF 11-24 F/4
Canon R5 + EF 11-24 F/4
January 21, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Modern camera sensors are amazing! It was a pretty hazy day on the beach in Santa Barbara. I just dialed in exposure for the sunset and let the foreground be dark. Here are the straight-out-of-camera shot and the final version with shadow recovery. Lemons and lemonade!
Canon R5 + EF 11-24 F/4
Canon R5 + EF 11-24 F/4
The @ucsb.bsky.social campus labyrinth, on a bluff above the ocean, is "a place of calm that encourages meditation, reflection, and rejuvenation." "Unlike a maze, it has a single path in full view that lead to the center and back out the same way."
With the Canon R5 + Samyang 12/2.8 Fisheye lens.
With the Canon R5 + Samyang 12/2.8 Fisheye lens.
January 21, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The @ucsb.bsky.social campus labyrinth, on a bluff above the ocean, is "a place of calm that encourages meditation, reflection, and rejuvenation." "Unlike a maze, it has a single path in full view that lead to the center and back out the same way."
With the Canon R5 + Samyang 12/2.8 Fisheye lens.
With the Canon R5 + Samyang 12/2.8 Fisheye lens.
Posted it before but what the hell, let’s do it again! From Southern California.
January 18, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Posted it before but what the hell, let’s do it again! From Southern California.
I always seem to struggle photographing birds with black plumage. I can never seem to get the depth of their glossy feathers to come out.
My feeble attempt at a red-winged blackbird in Portland.
Canon 7D + EF 100-400L
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My feeble attempt at a red-winged blackbird in Portland.
Canon 7D + EF 100-400L
#birds 🦉🪶
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January 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I always seem to struggle photographing birds with black plumage. I can never seem to get the depth of their glossy feathers to come out.
My feeble attempt at a red-winged blackbird in Portland.
Canon 7D + EF 100-400L
#birds 🦉🪶
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My feeble attempt at a red-winged blackbird in Portland.
Canon 7D + EF 100-400L
#birds 🦉🪶
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Black-capped chickadee in Portland.
I love these little birds. Feisty, smart, and tough as nails, over-wintering in the boreal forest. Their furnaces must burn hotter than most to deal with that.
Canon R7 + RF100-500L
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I love these little birds. Feisty, smart, and tough as nails, over-wintering in the boreal forest. Their furnaces must burn hotter than most to deal with that.
Canon R7 + RF100-500L
#birds 🦉🪶
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January 16, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Black-capped chickadee in Portland.
I love these little birds. Feisty, smart, and tough as nails, over-wintering in the boreal forest. Their furnaces must burn hotter than most to deal with that.
Canon R7 + RF100-500L
#birds 🦉🪶
Join me and other photographers at focus-on-photography-forum.net
I love these little birds. Feisty, smart, and tough as nails, over-wintering in the boreal forest. Their furnaces must burn hotter than most to deal with that.
Canon R7 + RF100-500L
#birds 🦉🪶
Join me and other photographers at focus-on-photography-forum.net
Female downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) with a great view of its zygodactyl foot.
Photographed in Portland Oregon with the Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
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Photographed in Portland Oregon with the Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
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January 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Female downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) with a great view of its zygodactyl foot.
Photographed in Portland Oregon with the Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
#birds 🪶🦉
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Photographed in Portland Oregon with the Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
#birds 🪶🦉
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Inspired by all the Wolf Moon photos people have been posting, so got the urge to set up the tripod and capture my version as well. Fairly decent atmospheric conditions and managed to capture a fair bit of crater detail.
Canon R5 + EF 600/4 III + 1.4X.
Click on image for 1600px resolution image.
Canon R5 + EF 600/4 III + 1.4X.
Click on image for 1600px resolution image.
January 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Inspired by all the Wolf Moon photos people have been posting, so got the urge to set up the tripod and capture my version as well. Fairly decent atmospheric conditions and managed to capture a fair bit of crater detail.
Canon R5 + EF 600/4 III + 1.4X.
Click on image for 1600px resolution image.
Canon R5 + EF 600/4 III + 1.4X.
Click on image for 1600px resolution image.
Orange enough for ya? 😀
Goleta sunset…..
Goleta sunset…..
January 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Orange enough for ya? 😀
Goleta sunset…..
Goleta sunset…..
(5/5):
And this was a relatively uncommon in the PNW, generally not found West of the Rockies.... it turned its head just as I was shooting and disappeared soon after, so this was my best shot, unfortunately.
Field sparrow (Spizella pusilla):
Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
#birds 🪶
And this was a relatively uncommon in the PNW, generally not found West of the Rockies.... it turned its head just as I was shooting and disappeared soon after, so this was my best shot, unfortunately.
Field sparrow (Spizella pusilla):
Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
#birds 🪶
January 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
(5/5):
And this was a relatively uncommon in the PNW, generally not found West of the Rockies.... it turned its head just as I was shooting and disappeared soon after, so this was my best shot, unfortunately.
Field sparrow (Spizella pusilla):
Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
#birds 🪶
And this was a relatively uncommon in the PNW, generally not found West of the Rockies.... it turned its head just as I was shooting and disappeared soon after, so this was my best shot, unfortunately.
Field sparrow (Spizella pusilla):
Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
#birds 🪶
January 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
January 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
January 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The Sparrows of Rentenaar Road - A thread (1/5)
Rentenaar Road on Sauvie Island in Portland, Oregon, is a great place for sparrows in winter, especially those in Zonotrichia.
Here are a few I photographed 12/23. Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
Golden-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla):
#birds 🪶
Rentenaar Road on Sauvie Island in Portland, Oregon, is a great place for sparrows in winter, especially those in Zonotrichia.
Here are a few I photographed 12/23. Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
Golden-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla):
#birds 🪶
January 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The Sparrows of Rentenaar Road - A thread (1/5)
Rentenaar Road on Sauvie Island in Portland, Oregon, is a great place for sparrows in winter, especially those in Zonotrichia.
Here are a few I photographed 12/23. Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
Golden-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla):
#birds 🪶
Rentenaar Road on Sauvie Island in Portland, Oregon, is a great place for sparrows in winter, especially those in Zonotrichia.
Here are a few I photographed 12/23. Canon R7 + RF 100-500L.
Golden-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia atricapilla):
#birds 🪶
Best wishes to everyone for a healthy, happy, and bird-filled 2025! 🙂
To kick things off in the new year, here is a marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa) I photographed on a bit of a foggy day at Playa del Rey, California.
Canon 7D Mark II + 500/4 II + 1.4X III
Click on photo to embiggen!
#birds 🦉
To kick things off in the new year, here is a marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa) I photographed on a bit of a foggy day at Playa del Rey, California.
Canon 7D Mark II + 500/4 II + 1.4X III
Click on photo to embiggen!
#birds 🦉
January 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Best wishes to everyone for a healthy, happy, and bird-filled 2025! 🙂
To kick things off in the new year, here is a marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa) I photographed on a bit of a foggy day at Playa del Rey, California.
Canon 7D Mark II + 500/4 II + 1.4X III
Click on photo to embiggen!
#birds 🦉
To kick things off in the new year, here is a marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa) I photographed on a bit of a foggy day at Playa del Rey, California.
Canon 7D Mark II + 500/4 II + 1.4X III
Click on photo to embiggen!
#birds 🦉