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Picture of
The Week, Red Shouldered Hawk |
 Bill
has been spending several days at the park in New Orleans to
get the shot of the Red Shouldered Hawk as it was feeding
its chick. This kind of shot only comes with lots of
patients. Bill managed to get this shot using his new
Nikon 500mm VR lens, boy does this thing do a job in the
hands of someone who knows how to use it.
Click-here for a
larger view of the wonderful bird. |
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Bill's Bird Slide Show |
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playing with slide shows these days and now he's
finally gotten one done and he hopes you will
enjoy.
Click here to view his first published slide
show. |
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Miscellaneous Galleries |
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Hang in there folks, there's more galleries
coming, the Billbird has been shooting birds for a
lot of years now, so check back often and see what's
up.
We are going to be using Google's Simple Viewer Gallery
templates to display Bill's bird photographs, its way more
simple to set up a gallery using the Simple Viewer Scrip in
Photoshop that doing a page of thumbnails and then an HTML
page with a larger view on the image, it was a happy day
when we tried Simple Viewer,
Click-here to download the Simple Viewer templates and
you can get more information by
Clicking-here for the FAQ's. There are templates for
Photoshop and several other image displaying programs such
as Google's Picasa 2.
Click-here for the Picasa download page. Picasa is also
a great album software program and it will fill the bill if
you need to get your pictures in some sort of order, there's
lots of information in the links provided above, so go read
up on a work saving piece of software. If you want to spend
$45.00, you can get the Pro version of Simple Viewer and we
are now giving the 30 day trial version out, check back here
and we'll let you know what we think.
Click-here for information on the Pro version of Simple
Viewer, no we have no affiliation with Google or Simple
Viewer, we just like the way the Photoshop Script templates
work so far.
Oh so you want to know where the name Billbird
came from, huh? I met Bill Bergen several years ago
and we became great friends and the first time I
talked to him he says, "I shoot just birds", and
that's all I've heard that since the year 2000, I
shoot just birds, so I tagged him with the nickname
"Billbird", it fits a great photographer.
James Allen
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| Hi folks, just want to let you know the Billbird has had a good
day by getting this great shot of a Fork-tailed Flycatcher in
flight. He also managed to get a great shot of a Western Kingbird
and he hasn't stopped there, check out the shot of the Osprey in
flight as well as the Mississippi Kites. We hope you enjoy the
wonderful photographs of these magnificent birds.
Click-on each of the bird thumbnails to the
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Welcome to O'Feathers
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O'Feathers, quite a name, huh, well that's about all this guy we've nicknamed Billbird, studies takes pictures of, and above
all loves, yep, birds with feathers. I was introduced to William P. Bergen, "Bill", by another world famous photographer and writer named George Payne.  When I had my first conversation will
Bill about photography it was in the latter part of 1999, I had gotten my first Digital Camera, a Nikon 950, and I had just gotten a fantastic shot of a "Yellow Tiger Cat", on my backyard fence, "to
the left", I emailed the picture to Bill, he said he liked it, and when we were talking about what he liked to shoot, he says' Just Birds, James, Just Birds" and that's the truth folks, I
haven't seen but about a half dozen pictures by Bill, that wasn't a bird shot since I have known him.
Bill and I have become great friends, we talk about cameras, computers, and software. We send each other pictures back and forth in our emails with a note asking, hey, how about this one. Now
we're working together on this web site and I hope you enjoy all the wonderful photographs that Bill will post here for your enjoyment, come back often, because Bill has loads of images.
James Allen, a friend of the "Billbird"
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A Day with "The Billbird" at Queen Bess Island
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 I was sitting in Ricky Bourg's 26' Boston
Whaler watching as Bill Bergen came trotting down the pier at Ricky's Motel ∓ RV Park; with some of the gear he had forgotten and left in his car. He climbed in the boat and I backed the boat away
from the pier in great anticipation. The plan for the day was we were going to a small island in Barataria Bay called "Queen Bess Island",
to the local folks it's known as "Bird Island". See the article written by one of Louisiana's primer wildlife writers and photographers, George Payne. The article is named: Grand Isle; One of the Last Peaceful
Get Aways. The plan was to photograph the nesting Brown Pelicans, "not nesting at this time", they are in abundance at this time of the
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Words of Wisdom
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 Lessons From
Geese
This is good reading, "Click Here", for the "rest of the
story".
FACT: As each goose flaps its
wings, it creates uplift for the bird following. By flying in a "V" formation, the whole flock adds 71% greater flying range than if the bird flew alone.
LESSON:
Those who share a common direction and sense of unity can get where they are going quicker and easier, because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.
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Continued From Home;
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Flight Shots |
| Well The Billbird has gotten himself
a new Nikon 300mm f4 AF lens to use with his Nikon D200 Digital camera for
flight shots. As any of you know getting good flight shots can be a daunting
task. The shots below Bill has gotten handheld and he is steady at getting more
shots several days a week. Click-on each image on the right for a larger view |
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Fork-tailed Flycatcher |
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Western Kingbird |
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Osprey
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Great Egret |
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Black Skimmer |
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