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Here is a recent walking around photo of one of the bunnies out here in Central Washington.(I have literally thousands of these kinds of photos)
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Nikon D850
200.0-500.0 mm f/5.6
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Hut said:
Tree Swallow at home
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Great image Hut! Beautiful color and razor sharp!

We have nesting boxes out that the Tree Swallows use most years. I love shooting their portraits. Here's one of the kids checking out the world outside their dark nest from earlier this summer.

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DRwyoming said:
Great image Hut! Beautiful color and razor sharp!

We have nesting boxes out that the Tree Swallows use most years. I love shooting their portraits. Here's one of the kids checking out the world outside their dark nest from earlier this summer.
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Man I love that photo! 2 smiling faces for the price of one.
Tree Swallows really bring us a lot of joy around here, plus they eat a lot of bugs. 😎 (y) One of my Tree Swallows fathers this summer was selected for the Audubon gallery "Bird from Home" I am kind of excited to see it but not sure when it will be out yet. Last summer I took a close up of a single little one peeking out and I printed it on round refrigerator magnets and handed them out to the old ladies in the neighborhood, it was a big hit....lol
 
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On the topic of swallows and nesting boxes this Violet Green Swallow came by to check out housing options this spring and I happened to have my camera nearby. We don't see a lot of these and the Tree Swallows are much more common here so I was sorry to see that they didn't settle in. Light was pretty harsh but I still like the colors.

Nikon D500, 300mm f/4 w/ TC-14 II at 420mm, f/10 (not sure why I dialed the aperture so high), 1/800", ISO 3200

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DRwyoming said:
On the topic of swallows and nesting boxes this Violet Green Swallow came by to check out housing options this spring and I happened to have my camera nearby. We don't see a lot of these and the Tree Swallows are much more common here so I was sorry to see that they didn't settle in. Light was pretty harsh but I still like the colors.

Nikon D500, 300mm f/4 w/ TC-14 II at 420mm, f/10 (not sure why I dialed the aperture so high), 1/800", ISO 3200
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I don’t either but the swallow as well as the weathering and lichen look fantastic.
 
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DRwyoming said:
Some days are all about photography and I head out to the national parks or a wildlife refuge with the full kit and big glass. But there are a lot of days where I just go for a walk with a hand held lens or maybe a monopod and a light kit but take a walk in wildlife rich places. Reading the posts here, that seems like a pretty popular way to approach wildlife photography and a lot of folks have mentioned walk around lenses and a more casual approach to wildlife photography.

Just because we're not in fully focused photography mode doesn't mean we can't capture some unique and pleasing images. I thought it would be fun to have a thread where folks share some of their more casual wildlife images whether it's birds in the yard, a deer at the local park or some interesting animals spotted while out hiking for the day with a camera handy.

I'll kick it off with this image I captured with my 300mm PF lens, D500 and TC-14 II teleconverter while out on a Sunday dog walk earlier this summer. I had the camera out and had just captured some Kildeer images in bright and not terribly flattering light when we walked up the road a bit and this Spotted Sandpiper flew past us and perched just about twelve feet away in a shady spot. I shot a few frames against the bright grassy fields in the background and was trying to work around to put him against something darker but he was gone before I managed that.

I had to open up the shadows a bit in post but overall I liked the way this shot came out.

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So what do folks have for those walk around shots?

-Dave
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Does walking on my 9th floor balcony of my inner city apt building count? :) A pair of Canadas chose the neighbouring building's roof to set down over a few days until the water dried up.

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Here is another walking around photo. I took this photo on Christmas day on my hike to the State Park.
I have shared it a few times.

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Nikon D500
TAMRON SP AF 150-600mm F5-6.3 VC USD A011N
 
Goats are awesome critters!

How about a walking around bird.
California Quail in Central Washington 1 year ago.
Nikon D500
TAMRON SP AF 150-600mm

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I get many of these same subjects come through our back yard. I’m not actually walking around when I take the shot. More like sitting around. Maybe I should start a backyard wildlife thread.
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