A word about the photographs

All of the photographs on this site, unless other wise indicated, were taken by David Barkin or his dog, Chato. They were all taken in Southern New York and the majority of them were actually taken in Brooklyn New York. Indeed Brooklyn New York is far richer in wild birds than any other place that I’ve ever been. Other images were taken in Westchester and Putnum Counties New York, but amajority are from Brooklyn.

From time to time you will see birds whose plumage does not match from picture to picture. This should be because the feather coloring of birds varies from season to season. Another example is that some birds, when they molt, often look as if they are the victims of some disease. Such is not the case. male and Female birds often have different colors. If you find an error in the labeling of these images, please feel free to write to correct the information.

All images, unless otherwise indicated, were taken with a Nikon D1x Digital SLR camera; most using a Swarovski AT 80 HD spotting telescope. They are a minimum of 15 megabytes uncompressed and a maximum of 66 Megabytes. They were taken in RAW format and some were interpolated up in camera using the RAW data. All can easily be printed at 16 x 20 inches without further work. Many of the images can be printed at considerably larger sizes, although you should check with the author if you have some particular goal in mind that my explanations do not cover. Other lenses used include the Sigma 50-500mm and the Tamron 28-105mm

The numbering series means absolutely nothing and is a convenience for the author. However, many of the birds are in fact represented by hundreds of images, only a small portion of which are displayed on this site. If you need a particular image, please feel free to write, and I may very well have such an image in stock. The actual number of images that are of professional quality, at the moment I write these lines, exceeds 5,000 thousand images, only a small portion of which are actually shown.

While there is a gallery called "Sequences," which highlights certain sequential photographs, in fact quite a few more sequences could have been put together. Once again, if you have any requests, feel free to write.

David Barkin