Spot and Stalk Photography

      I don't have the same zoom capabilities as some of the other bloggers on this blog, which makes it a little difficult to capture some of the bird photos. So, I had to put my hunting skills to use on these photos, with a little spot and stalk action. Using some of the natural terrain and a pond dam, I was able to sneak within 15 to 20 yards of these three blue winged teal. At first I don't think they realized I was there. It only took a few shutter clicks of the camera to alert them that they had company and to the air they took.

    Kansas is in the central flyway zone, and over the last few weeks I have been seeing fewer and fewer waterfowl, as most have already made the trek back to the great north. A few still hang around but, I would imagine all but a few will move out by the end of the month.  Which gives way to my next fowl experiment  taking my 5 year old turkey hunting! Hopefully in the next few weeks I can capture a couple images of turkeys up close!!  

All of these were shot with my D300 with a 70-300mm lens at 300mm, ISO 800, between 1/640th and 1/2000th sec.