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The Eared Quetzal is a very rare (like every 10 years or so) visitor to southeast AZ and usually hangs out in a very difficult to get to area. I figured I'd never get to see one, let alone photograph it. But this year a pair showed up in an accessible canyon. Birds were not seen every time someone hiked in but often enough I figured it was worth a try. To avoid lots of others after the same bird, a friend and I went in on a cloudy, misty/rainy day. We were lucky, saw the birds after about 1/2 hour hike and got to spend 2 hours alone with them. This picture, though probably not my best photo for 2020, is undeniably one of my favorites, not only for the image of the bird, but for the wonderful memories it invokes. :)
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Icarus said:
The Eared Quetzal is a very rare (like every 10 years or so) visitor to southeast AZ and usually hangs out in a very difficult to get to area. I figured I'd never get to see one, let alone photograph it. But this year a pair showed up in an accessible canyon. Birds were not seen every time someone hiked in but often enough I figured it was worth a try. To avoid lots of others after the same bird, a friend and I went in on a cloudy, misty/rainy day. We were lucky, saw the birds after about 1/2 hour hike and got to spend 2 hours alone with them. This picture, though probably not my best photo for 2020, is undeniably one of my favorites, not only for the image of the bird, but for the wonderful memories it invokes. :)
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beautiful trogon, must be one of the top beauty species in birds. I looked 30 years before I saw my first Narina Trogon! Splendid image 😍 👌
 
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Icarus said:
The Eared Quetzal is a very rare (like every 10 years or so) visitor to southeast AZ and usually hangs out in a very difficult to get to area. I figured I'd never get to see one, let alone photograph it. But this year a pair showed up in an accessible canyon. Birds were not seen every time someone hiked in but often enough I figured it was worth a try. To avoid lots of others after the same bird, a friend and I went in on a cloudy, misty/rainy day. We were lucky, saw the birds after about 1/2 hour hike and got to spend 2 hours alone with them. This picture, though probably not my best photo for 2020, is undeniably one of my favorites, not only for the image of the bird, but for the wonderful memories it invokes. :)
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Fantastic!... It is always exciting to see a rare or unique species!
 
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A bit late to the party; wanted to wait until after this morning (you know until 2020 was over :)) -- went out hunting for snowy owls but despite reports of this being a good fall/winter for them so far I saw none. Did see some ravens feasting on a deer carcass but they took off when I was 500 metres away supposedly sneaking up on them, and despite some patience by me they never returned even though I was fairly hidden, I thought, nicely in some spruce trees fairly out of sight. Lesson? Ravens are way smarter than me and my camo clothing.

Among my favourites from 2020 as I rode the learning curve of wildlife photography is this one; just love how to my eye the antlers could be tree branches....

Happy New Year!

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Callie said:
beautiful trogon, must be one of the top beauty species in birds. I looked 30 years before I saw my first Narina Trogon! Splendid image 😍 👌
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Thank you. Trogon's are such strange birds. We have Elegant Trogon here and they are around most of the year, but this bird was something else again!
 
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This has to be my favourite of the year. This is because after many years of trying to get a decent shot of a cock nightjar in flight I finally managed one. We all know the difficulties of trying to see, let alone photograph, an erratically moving bird in the dark, so I was delighted to finally get it. This was also the first pic I posted on this site so apologies to those who have seen it before.
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ssheipel said:
A bit late to the party; wanted to wait until after this morning (you know until 2020 was over :)) -- went out hunting for snowy owls but despite reports of this being a good fall/winter for them so far I saw none. Did see some ravens feasting on a deer carcass but they took off when I was 500 metres away supposedly sneaking up on them, and despite some patience by me they never returned even though I was fairly hidden, I thought, nicely in some spruce trees fairly out of sight. Lesson? Ravens are way smarter than me and my camo clothing.

Among my favourites from 2020 as I rode the learning curve of wildlife photography is this one; just love how to my eye the antlers could be tree branches....

Happy New Year!

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Very beautiful capture Steven
 
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