Photos: California Wetlands Bird
Photographing California's Vanishing Wetlands offers rewards while making contributions.
Graceful yet calculating, the birds in California's vanishing wetlands live by their wits and instincts. A meal is dependent on an ample food supply and the bird's ability to capture enough calories to sustain life.
Wetlands are one of those rare places where your picture-taking can help influence public opinion and promote conservation.
Take Patience
The birds in wetlands are primarily migrating birds who are driven by seasons. They actually travel thousands of miles, often from the southern regions of South America to Canada, making California wetlands one of their stops. If you have a field guide you can identify the visitors.
What to do with your bird pictures
Beautiful wetlands nature photographs are often used by nonprofit organizations for promotional items such as merchandise, or for their newsletters, websites and other information distributed to the public or specific sectors.
Birding Tips
Birding is an extremely popular form of photography and those who take it seriously don't mess around. They come armed with the biggest, best lenses attached to quality camera bodies. If you observe photographers and you want to speak to them, make sure they are not working. Wetlands birding may require silence as well as patience -- some may be capturing the action with video and sound. As a beginner, just watch and practice tracking birds in flight. Take tons of photos and practice, practice. Eventually you'll fine tune your sessions honing in on specific activities or certain birds, perhaps.
