This week Egidio challenges to It’s a wild life. I’m out of my comfort zone here as I don’t photograph much wildlife or many landscapes. I’ve search the archives and come up with a few wild bird shots and a couple of wild flowers.
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Beautiful bird photos, and the fern is really lovely. Great details in all the images
Thank you Ritva 🙂
Someday I’ll visit a location to photograph puffins. I find them so interesting. Beautiful shot of the heron, Steve.
Thank you John. It was well worth making the effort for us. We had a great day on the island
Magical Steve! Your puffin is incredible. I saw them in the wild in Alaska from a boat and was never able to get a reasonable image. Also really loved your fern – the detail is amazing.
Thank you Tina 🙂
I love puffins. We saw them a couple of years ago in Newfoundland, but we weren’t able to get as close as you did. Maggie
Thank you Maggie. We got very close to the Puffins, they’re weren’t bothered by us at all. That image isn’t cropped and taken with a 70-200 zoom. The Puffins run the gauntlet of Seagulls attacking them, to steal their sand eels as they land, and then they run for their rabbit burrows if they’ve any eels left.
Wonderful images, all! The fern (fiddlehead) is magical.
Thank you Joanne 🙂
Great images Steve!
Thank you Anne 🙂
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Steve, are you really out of your comfort zone? These are amazing wildlife photos. I cannot pick just one as a favorite, but the great blue heron is way up there. Gorgeous gallery!
Thank you Egidio. We saw that Heron, sitting in that tree, every time we walked along the lake.
Amazing bird images Steve, they are fantastic. Love the puffin.
Thank you Leanne 🙂
Fantastic images. 😊
Thank you Pepper
What a great shot of the puffin! I really enjoyed the fern too.
Thank you 🙂
Puffins are too cute! Love your fern too, Steve. Great post.
Thank you Sofia 🙂
Excellent take on the theme of wild – and even though your birds are stunning, and not ones we see everyday, especially the puffin! – but with that said, my fav has to be the fern frond unfurling – your close up showed the details of this an ancient group of plants that seems to still be so abundant…
Thank you 🙂
Great portrait of the puffin, Steve!
Thank you 🙂