Show your Bird Portraits

[foda]

It illustrates that it's the ambient light and the exposure that are doing the difference, no surprise...
But: "Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal, the rest is poetry, imagination." I would say that the experiments start with "poetry, imagination.", usually called hypothesis.
And only the results from the experiments are the thing that will kill or uplift your hypothesis! In this particular case the hypothesis didn't survive the experiment. For the "experimental scientist" it means (most of the time but not always) your chances to get money for your next experiment are diminishing...

Actually (and this is almost always missed), analysis of observational data precedes the generation of a hypothesis. The hypothesis then generates a testable prediction which can be verified or falsified by further experiment.

 

[foda]

Please forgive a fellow experimental scientist for using your image to test those theories - after all as Max Planck wrote: "Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal, the rest is poetry, imagination." (especially what's on Facebook).

View attachment 229615

Well done. What is your field of study?

 

[foda]

Indochinese Green-Magpie photographed while birding in Vietnam, March, 2026.

R5MkII RF200-800mm

 

[neuroanatomist]

"Chipping Sparrow"

EOS R1, EF 600mm f/4L IS II + RF 1.4x Extender, 1/2000 s, f/5.6, ISO 4000

"American Redstart"

EOS R1, EF 600mm f/4L IS II + RF 1.4x Extender, 1/2000 s, f/5.6, ISO 1000

 

[AlanF]

Well done. What is your field of study?

Protein science (at the interface of molecular biology, chemistry, biophysics and structural biology).

 

[Click]

Indochinese Green-Magpie photographed while birding in Vietnam, March, 2026.

R5MkII RF200-800mm

View attachment 229653

Awesome! Beautiful bird and great photo.

 

[AlanF]

Two shots from my wife today with the R7 + RF 100-400mm of a Grey Heron having a fish lunch.

 

[ISv]

Least sandpiper, lesser and greater yellow legs spotted sandpiper, verigina railView attachment 229638View attachment 229639View attachment 229640View attachment 229641View attachment 229642View attachment 229643View attachment 229644View attachment 229645View attachment 229646View attachment 229647

I like the shots and I like the shore birds (often they are pretty difficult to ID) but you badly messed the order (and probably the ID's):
the first shot is the Verigina rail (actually Virginia rail !). After that are four photos what I think is the Greater Yellow legs -"GYL", (not absolutely sure for the fourth one): the base of the bill is/or has some yellow/orange, in the Lesser Yellow legs (LYL) the bill should be all dark; the feathered part of the bill is separated from the nostrils (according some authorities - like Richard Chandler, it's reaching the nostrils in LYL); the joints of the legs are too swollen for LIL (good visible when the legs are strait!). The last five photos are all the Least Sandpiper: yellow legs, North America (and some more differences from the other two yellow-legged "stints/peeps" in the world). I don't see ANY Spotted Sandpiper!

 

[ISv]

Two shots from my wife today with the R7 + RF 100-400mm of a Grey Heron having a fish lunch.

View attachment 229656View attachment 229657

What kind of fish it is - Tench (Tinca tinca)?!

 

[AlanF]

What kind of fish it is - Tench (Tinca tinca)?!

It's a Tench (Sashimi heroni).