Photos by Pamela Yasmina Parker: Birds

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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Great Weekend at The Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch!

I had a fantastic weekend of photo taking. Saturday I spent the morning at the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch and got some fantastic photos. Sunday I spent the morning with my friend Amber and her family taking photos in her fabulous garden. Best weekend ever for photography!!!

Here are photos from Saturday; enjoy...

American Avocet

Blooming Cactus

Comorant

Curve-billed Thrasher

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron - close up

Great Egret

Mourning Doves

Gambel's Quail

Female House Sparrow

Monday, December 28, 2015

Busy Week for Photography

Wow this has been such a busy week for photo shoots!!! I was honored to take photos of 2 families in the last 2 days. The O'Connor's and the Lewis's. This is something new for me since I normally photograph wildlife. Both families were so much fun and they loved their photos!!!

Tuesday Dec. 22nd I was able to spend some time at my favorite place, the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch. Below are some of the photos I took that day; enjoy...

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Great Photo Weekend

This weekend has been cloudy on Friday and cloudy and rainy on Saturday perfect days to take photos outside.

Friday afternoon after work I went to Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch in Gilbert to take photos and see if I could find birds I hadn't seen before. I was lucky to finally see both male and female Black-crowned Night Herons. They were both sleeping in trees and was able to get a photo the female awake before I left the preserve.

Saturday I had 2 photo shoots lined up and unfortunately they cancelled on me so I took the opportunity to try out Veteran's Oasis Park in Chandler. I was on the hunt for Birds of Prey since a photographer I met in Gilbert said he had great experience photography raptors. I was lucky and was able to photograph Turkey Vultures, Red-tailed Hawk and a Hen Harrier.

My favorite photos from the Veteran's Oasis Park were a cute little Verdin and the biggest Jackrabbit I've ever seen.

Below are some of the photos from Friday and Saturday.

Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch

Above and Below -

Black-crowned Night Herons

Above and Below -

Great Blue Heron

Anna's Hummingbird

Kingfisher

Neotropic Cormorant

Snowy Egrets

Veteran's Oasis Park

Above and below -

Great Blue Herons

Red-tailed Hawk

Hen Harrier

Jackrabbit

Mourning Dove

Above and below -

Turkey Vulture

Verdin

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch in Gilbert, AZ

Had the most wonderful morning today. I hit the road at 6:00 am to go take photos at the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch in Gilbert.

It's been several weeks since I'd been out there hoping to see some new birds this time and I certainly did. There were birds I've never seen before!!! The new birds were the American Wigeon, Long-billed Dowicher, Verdin, Baird's Sandpiper and a Killdeer.

The ponds had more water in them since I'd been there last and to watch all the Canadian Geese fly this morning was so exciting. Their honking could be heard all over the preserve.

There was so much activity this morning there were times I just sat back and watched in amazement.

Enjoy the photos and have a great week...