Spring is springing down at the river - cute chicks everywhere! (BW danger)

[hal]

Goose family...




Enjoying the color while I can - this will all be BROWN in just a few weeks


Not the best picture, but that's a fricken green heron... in flight! I don't see that every day, let alone snap a shot of one...


BIG chicks heading back to the water


I was told that these tiny little dragonflies are not actually dragonflies, but I forget what they are called...



Startled this family out of their nest taking the picture above - they just emerged out of the bush I was standing next to...

More goose chicks...








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here's some more...

Red winged black bird...








Big giant bee monster...


Rounded a corner and saw what looked like a rabbit statue. He was frozen in this position for almost a minute...


all taken with a canon sx40 P&S at the American River in Carmichael, CA

[tenders]

Love these montages.

[freeradical]

Nice shots hal!

[TheCaber]

Those dragonflies with the very long, thin abdomens were called 'darning needles' when I was growing up. Not that I had any idea what a darning needle was at the time, and even now have never darned anything except a recalcitrant bolt.

[cbelt3]

Goosies !

We have a ton of them here in NE Ohio. Some of the goslings (not "Chicks"... sorry) are already past "baby" and into "Toddler". In a month they'll be "Teenager" geese.. they start to get their markings, learn to fly, and generally pester the heck out of Mom and Dad.

Have NOT seen many fawns yet... that's unusual, especially since it was such an amazingly mild winter. It's possible the fawns were born early, and the smaller does I'm seeing are actually fawns after they lose their spots.

Usually there's a 'Fawn daycare' in operation in a church field near our house.... often up to a dozen fawns being supervised by three or four does. The little ones are so darn cute.

[blooz]

D'aawww!

[JoeM]

Nice!

[mrlynn]

TheCaber wrote:
Those dragonflies with the very long, thin abdomens were called 'darning needles' when I was growing up. Not that I had any idea what a darning needle was at the time, and even now have never darned anything except a recalcitrant bolt.

They're damselflies,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damselfly

We used to call them 'snake doctors'.

/Mr Lynn

[Sam3]

How is the SX40 in low-light/sports photography? My sister in law wants a camera that she can shoot her high school football playing sons with. Most games are at night. How is the latency, the focusing?

On a similar note, how would it do with faster moving sports like basketball? My 9 y.o. plays in her grade school's cafeteria/gym.