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Allows Edits? YesA male sage Sparrow calling for a good time.
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You’ve just made me realise when last I’ve taken a bird shot. Going to spend a few days in a local reserve next week so maybe I’ll return with a few respectable ones… 😉
The sparrow is really singing his heart out, isn’t he? 🙂
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I parked up in a nature reserve, and this little robin must be used to people, because he just came closer and closer …..
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I love it when they do that – it gives you perfect bokeh at a long f/l, like this one! Beautiful!
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Allows Edits? YesReally love this Diane.
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That is gorgeous, Diane. I always do a double take when you post robins, as ours are so different! We had a “flock” of robins about three weeks ago – I didn’t know they flocked, as such. I will try and dig out one of the photos to show the distant cousins to yours.
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Spoon Bills.
Taken early in the morning out on an isolated island in the Sian Ka’an Biosphere, Mexico.
Cormorant
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Beautiful! I can never get used to the eye color of these cormorants!
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Allows Edits? YesThose are really cool Rob, Knew this throwdown would get some great posts. The spoonbill gave me the Idea to do a ugly baby throwdown, l know a bird would win.
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Great shots Rob, lovely colour on the Spoonbill.
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sleepy siskin …
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Wonder if he was OK? Strange for him to be ‘sleepy’ on the ground?
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Male Cardinal. These guys hang out in our yard year round. With early spring upon us and unusual birds migrating through our feeders I really should try to do a better job of photographing them this year.
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Super common and shouldn’t really be taking photos of these – but she posed so nicely for it. Mallard Hen:
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Allows Edits? YesWell People are common too but we still take photos of them. Not quite as sharp as yours really didn’t have the appropriate lens with me but caught her in the moment.
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In my garden, yesterday …
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We don’t have those here in Canada Diane. Great spotted Woodpecker I believe? At 600mm please tell me you used a tripod or I’m going to be depressed. 🙂
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And another….were is @albirder on this throwdown?
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I see your Jackdaw and raise you a Vulture Diane.
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Lovely vulture shot @reyers!
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Allows Edits? YesA Great Blue Heron taken with an old point and shoot.
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Goshawk ..
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Allows Edits? YesLove the raptors , nice photos.
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Allows Edits? YesA Brandt’s Oriole way up in the top of a tree snagged with a 400mm Lecia lens.
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Allows Edits? YesWent Birding on Sunday, Sorta cold, Very windy, trees are just beginning to bud out, Snowed again on Saturday and more expected tonight and next Sunday. All we saw were Crows, Mallards, and Canadian Geese, an some Woodpeckers we ignored the waterfowl, the crows stayed buried in the trees and couldn’t get a clear angle on them.
Wood Peckers (Click Photos to Super size)
These Nut Hatches were about 20 feet in the Air and and we were about 20 feet from the tree.
And these Northern Flickers were close to 70 feet off the ground in a Giant Cottonwood tree and we Were about that far back from the tree. Look close there are 2 of them.
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Good captures of the nuthatches Robert…they move so quickly. If it stops raining this week we will have to get out as well. Migration time is just starting here in Southern Ontario. Just a few weeks before the leaves hide all the activity.
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Allows Edits? YesThanks Rob,
And your not kidding about the nuthatches, I was testing the mark 2 shooting at 60 ft per second burst mode and a good 70 percent of the photos were birdless.
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Lilac Breasted Roller. In full display mode to impress a few ladies closeby.
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Very nice Tobie …as always. Can’t pick a favourite when they are all this good.
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Allows Edits? YesNice shots Tobie, really like that last one.
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Allows Edits? YesGot these two out side the shop , I think the pair is nesting near by. Male and Female house finches.
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Not an award winning shot but one of our more colourful birds.
Crimson Breasted Shrike
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A first see for me, snapped during the week. Simply a beautiful bird. Blacks are always a challenge so click on the shot to enlarge it a little for viewing.
Paradise Whydah
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Allows Edits? YesNo exotic coloured birds here except in cages indoors. The redwings are busy preparing for spring after a warm and wet winter.
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A lot of exceptional images posted.
Tried to pick a few with/from a different view point. Some maybe not the standard interpretations.
Canada Geese:
Burrowing Owl:
Hummingbird:
Peacock:
Peacock (a more familiar portrait):
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Just looking back through these …. all so striking, and the Burrowing owl is an amazing shot!
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Thank you @Tersha.
I took this shot around noon hour on a bright, cloudless, sunny day. I know that the ideal rule for photography is “shoot to the right”… But sometimes I purpposely shoot to the ‘left’. And this is one of the examples.
Here’s a screen shot of the LR’s histogram from the original image:
And here’s a copy of the unprocessed original image:
Capture Time: 12:32:33 PM – April 2012
Exposure: 1/3200 sec at f/4.5 (I used the high shutter speed to reduce the ambient light)
ISO: 500 (not sure why I had the ISO so high)
focal legth: 180mmAs you can see, minimal processing was required to get the background black (in my LR, the background is a dark gray, unlike the Flikr version which is more black) and bring out the highlights in the owl, and finally the vertical crop.
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Allows Edits? YesAll very nice Paul.
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An unexpected bonus on my Sunday afternoon drive 3 days ago. The Cape Vulture swooped over the car. I grabbed my camera, jumped out and it came around once more, close enough for me to take a shot. It’s a juvenile with colours a little darker than its parents.
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Finally able to log back on. Here are a couple I recently shot.
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Luvit, @karenhy!
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Allows Edits? YesGood shots Karen, what are they?
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Went for a bird shoot on Saturday…
Fish Eagle
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Thanks @leannec! It took almost an hour’s stalking to get to this shot, but in the end it was worth it! Ironically it knows that you’re stalking it so you have to try and do it in such a way that it does not get spooked! 🙂
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Allows Edits? YesAll good ones Tobie, my last trip out was cold and God-awful windy the birds were all in hiding probably some place out of the weather.
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I hear ya, Robert! Been yucky here too. But it warmed up this weekend and the hummers came back. I am on stakeout! Hopefully get something to share soon.
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I have been on stakeout since Easter morning to catch this guy (okay, maybe not the whole time!) I always have a hard time with the exposure so I was pleased to read a Lightstalking article on metering recently – it helped I think! Anyway, first hummer of the spring for us. He guards the feeder watchfully but no others have competed for it yet.
Rufous Hummingbird (I am pretty sure…it is easily mistaken for Allen Hummingbird so I may be corrected)
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Thank you Tobie and Diane. I think he may have found a girlfriend, as there was a female in the tree this morning…time to get back out there!
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Only a blackbird, but I love their song in the evenings ….
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Allows Edits? YesI’ll raise you a Redwinged Blackbird @Tersha .
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My favourite shot at the moment, the evening sun was hitting the woodpecker …
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White-bellied Sunbird.
Ironic that he’s looking for the sweet stuff from the flowers of the excessively bitter aloe plant! 🙂
A bit of extra effort paid off here. The left is actually the shade side with the sun coming from the right. This caused a few failures the previous day at the same spot and same time so I placed a 600W strobe at about 45 degrees on my left, about half powered and 3m from the plant.
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Allows Edits? YesGreat Tobie, I’ve been toying with the idea of flash with the hummingbirds.
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For hummingbirds a flash or two is an absolute necessity if you want to freeze the wings during flight. I have once read an article that they’re actually attracted by flash lights so you might find yourself in an interesting situation! I’m looking forward to seeing your results!
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I’ve used a flash, or two, when photographing hummingbirds. They do react to them at first (startle and buzz away a bit) but then they seem to get used to them. Definitely a must for freezing the wings. And the light helps showcase their lovely iridescent feathers in a way that daylight does not.
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I had wondered about using a flash with our feeder which is in the shade for morning feeds but had not tried it. It certainly worked for you Tobie! Does it scare the bird away?
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I was wondering about the same thing Rob, but although he sometimes shows a reaction (a quick flick with the wings) when it flashes, it does not bug him at all. Not sure if it’s the same for all species but – if we don’t try, we wouldn’t know! 🙂
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Allows Edits? YesEven if Canadian Geese are like mosquitoes around this part they aren’t everywhere are they ?
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Rosella:
<Apostle Birds
Rainbow Lorikeets
Pelican:
Kookaburra
Bin Chicken (Ibis)
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Allows Edits? YesBIN CHICKEN!!!
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Bin Chicken…lol…had to look that one up.
Alternate colloquial names include “bin chicken”, “dump chook”, “trash vulture”, “Bankstown bin diver”, or “tip turkey”, from its habit of rummaging in garbage,
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Songthrush singing his heart out …..
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So @tersha after posting the above, I remembered this Groundscraper Thrush which I’ve snapped a couple of years back. It has a few similarities with yours:
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Hi Toby, your Groundscraper Thrush does look more similar, I wouldn’t have known the other one was a Thrush.
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Hi Toby, your Groundscraper Thrush does look more similar, I wouldn’t have known the other one was a Thrush.
The Song Thrush that I posted sits in the same tree every morning and evening, and sings his heart out, it’s a beautiful song!-
@tersha our thrushes are mostly seen on the ground, turning over leaves in search of edible critters. They don’t really ‘sing’ but do have distinct calls.
I took a bunch of shots at our local botanical garden over the weekend but then my laptop crashed on me just after importing them. I’m taking it in to the repair shop today – hope it’s something minor and if not, that I can save the data on my hard drive… 🙁
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