With another perfect day and last night’s North winds, I anticipated an influx of migrants, but it just didn’t happen. Birds were scarce in general, and not a migrant was in sight.
I did see a few bugs, and more spiders than usual.
Blue Gray Gnatcatchers were the most active birds this morning.
This Great Blue Heron was fishing i the small pond near the parking lot.
Yet another juvenile Indigo Bunting.
This Nursery Web Spider is guarding her egg sac.
Red Admiral
This spider is new to me.
A few months ago, I started using my Nikkor 55mm with a 12mm extension tube for macro shots. I had been using a Nikon 55mm micro with a TC-2 converter, but the manual focus was difficult for my 70 year old eyes. I was getting some good shots, but i had a lot of blurry shots to delete, as well. Results were much better with AF. I then read ab out the DCR 250 on a FB Macro group, and I ordered one. Graeme was skeptical at the time, and I wasn’t sure if it was worth the $70.00 cost. Well, we’re both sold now, and Graeme is now using it as well.
Graeme has just made a video with a detailed explanation of the gear and techniques.
Flycatcher