outdoor photography

Eastern Wood Pewee One of my favorite things about bird photography is portraying bird behavior, and there's something fascinating about watching birds capture their food.  It's even more fascinating if I can capture the bird actually eating its prey.  I've had previous posts on birds eating fish and birds eating frogs .  Today I'd like to show you birds eating bugs.  I've realized that I don't have quite the variety of birds that I did for the others, so it looks like I have to give myself a project to capture more birds capturing insects.  But here's what I have. Eastern Wood Pewee Red-Bellied Woodpecker Red Bellied Woodpecker Loggerhead Shrike Loggerhead Shrike

Dobsonfly A few years ago my family was on vacation at Deep Creek Lake in Western, MD.  We decided one evening to build a campfire, so we collected a bunch of wood for the fire pit.  My son was helping me carry wood, but then he suddenly put down the wood and told me I had to come see this bug.  This thing gave new meaning to the phrase "big, ugly bug."  So of course, I was fascinated by it and had to get out my macro lens and take dozens of pictures of this Dobsonfly.  My son had found a female here, which is why the pincers are so "short."  Males have pincers so long they aren't dangerous.  Females can inflict a serious bite.  The bug itself was huge!  It was probably 5 inches long, and it felt like I'd been transported back to prehistoric times.  So now, of course, this is one of my favorite bugs. Dobsonfly Dobsonfly Dobsonfly