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Welcome to the Feather Light Photography Blog. Look here for photos documenting unusual, noteworthy, or simply amusing bird behavior. I hope you enjoy it. Steve Zamek Cormorant Courtship
April 02, 2018
I recently had the opportunity to visit a nesting colony of Brandt’s Cormorants. As expected, the birds were busy collecting nest material, bickering, mating, and perform...
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Blast-Off !!!
December 20, 2017
A wildlife spectacle occurs every winter in California’s central valley, where huge numbers of waterfowl spend the winter. By visiting any of the National Wildlife Refuge...
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How to Remove a Pincer
November 21, 2017
A favorite food of Hooded Mergansers is crayfish (aka crawfish or crawdad). The birds swallow these small crustaceans whole, but they must first remove the two pincers, a...
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Frenetic Feeding Behavior
August 19, 2017
Watching a Brandt’s Cormorant feed its young can be quite surprising, even alarming for first time viewers, as the technique (at least for more mature chicks) can seem so...
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Gannet Courtship
July 21, 2017
On a recent vacation in eastern Canada, I made sure to include stops at two of the largest Northern Gannet nesting colonies in North America: Bonaventure Island in Quebec...
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Kite Courtship
June 09, 2017
White-tailed kites, besides being among the most beautiful raptors in North America, are especially enjoyable to observe when they perform their elaborate courtship ritua...
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Curious Owlet
May 20, 2017
I've lately been visiting a Great Horned Owl nest near my house, keeping tabs on the lone owlet (and its mother) as it grows up. On two visits I noticed an Anna's Humming...
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A Fledgling Learns to Feed
April 16, 2017
The Verdin, a common bird of the Sonoran Desert, frequently feeds on the flowers of the Ocotillo plant -- not by gleaning insects (their typical diet), but by piercing th...
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In Boston even beans do it *
January 19, 2017
As a fan of bird behavior, I would not consider this blog complete without a collection of photos of birds mating. Here are images of a few species which I caught in the...
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Feasting on Fish
September 21, 2016
Elegant Terns, like many other fish-eating birds, dive into the water from above to catch their prey. Witnessing these birds demonstrating their aerial and “swimming” ski...
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Western Bluebird Nestlings
May 22, 2016
I recently discovered a family of Western Bluebirds, where the parents were actively feeding their young. The shooting conditions were not ideal, but I did my best to cap...
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Bird Food
January 24, 2016
What do birds eat? Have a look below...
Butterfly:
Big fish:
Little fish:
Lots of fish:
Dragonfly:
Sparrow:
Flower:
Nectar:
Acorn:
Vole:...
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Persimmon Picnic
December 13, 2015
As persimmons ripen in December, here in the Bay Area, birds flock to feed on the sweet fruit. The feeding opportunity for a given tree typically lasts just a few days, d...
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Successful Hunt for African Wild Dogs
August 24, 2015
WARNING: This blog post contains images depicting gruesome scenes of of violence, which you may find disturbing.
While on safari in Zambia I witnessed a pack of African...
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Food Drop for Young Harrier
July 18, 2015
Northern Harrier parents have an unusual method for feeding their young: As soon as the birds are able to leave the nest, the parents entice the young birds to fly by tem...
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