I shamelessly intruded on this swan’s privacy. Captured on Lake Ontario in Port Dalhousie in February with my 300mm. Birds have never been safe from ‘big brother’.

And this one is actually clutching a fish — well, half a fish (as opposed to this one)!

This osprey lives in a state park on Honeymoon Island in Florida, near Clearwater (and Tampa). Birds are fun — and difficult — to photograph.

I also saw a baby bald eagle in its nest this day, from 330 feet, the closest you are allowed to an eagle’s nest under federal rules. I never saw his (her?) parents though, but it was still cool to see a (not yet) bald eagle (the characteristic white head is developed later). Here is the baby, which was born around Valentine’s Day and was appropriately named Cupid.

There were lots of osprey, however, bringing fish in to feed their young ones. Yes, I realise this particular one doesn’t clutch a fish, but it’s one of the better pictures I took. I used the 300mm, which is an okay lens despite being very basic and cheap ($200).

I caught this robin (Norwegian: rødstrupe) cleaning its feathers with my 300mm. I wasn’t this close though, it’s cropped to about a third of the size of the original. A lesson from this picture is that I could well stop up one or two times when it’s this bright, to make it sharper and get a greater depth of field.

It’s that time of year again. There were two geese and two goslings, unfortunately I could never get them all in the same shot. This is the best one I took in my opinion.

A pelican getting ready to dive bomb an unsuspecting fish. Again and again I tried to catch a pelican the moment before they hit the water, and I was foiled each and every time. Just not quick enough. Have a couple of almost half-decent ones, but they’re a little blurry and the bird is half submerged already. Not this time I guess, but I still got some good pelican shots.

Well, his name might not Henry, but Jenna remembered a pelican on this pier from about 10 years ago, so it could be the same one couldn’t it? He was cool, just sat there to be photographed.

Update: apparently, it is the same Henry.

These Canada geese lined up for me on the edge of the Reflecting Pool, in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.