Waite Bird Photos Inc

I am always looking for contributors to submit nicely composed and interesting photographs of birds. Here is a photo of a Chestnut-backed Chickadee gleaning for insects in a Douglas Fir on Vancouver Island taken by George W. Bowron.

Waite Bird Photos is dedicated to using photography as a means of educating the public about our feathered friends. Over the years our photographers have used high-speed strobes to capture action in and around the nest. As camera and flash (strobe) equipment become more and more sophisticated this becomes easier and easier to achieve. Last year we photographed a Chestnut-backed Chickadee that was in a nest cavity 18 feet above the ground in a 3” in diameter dead fir. The strobes were placed 10 feet from the nest and the camera with 600 mm lens was about 15 feet. The team of photographers built a tree stand to safety code specifications in an adjacent tree. We look forward to hearing from other aspiring photographers who are contemplating nest photography with high-speed strobes. The Loggerhead Shrike bringing an Alligator Lizard to its ready-to-fledge young pic was taken in Burns, Oregon, in 2006. Currently, our web site is not online (for the selling of images). This will hopefully change over the next couple of months (to be similar to an air photo site). When it’s up and running, I’d like to invite photographers from around the world to share their experiences with the primary purpose of education. Over the past 35+ years I’ve taken bird photos to feed my soul and air photos to feed my body. Go here:
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I’d like to add a little more to the story. Damon and I photographed these birds over several days and one day I even invited the Burns biologist to spent some time in the blind. The pair of birds usually caught mice or voles and dismembered them on a “butcher block” (dead branch) immediately behind the blind. We could watch them cut up their prey into small pieces and then take them to the young. As the babies grew so did the size of the food. In this photo a parent is about to feed an Alligator Lizard whole to a ready-to-fledge young.
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