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[AlanF]

Who needs Eye AF. Not me says the House Sparrow. When I was a kid, these sparrers were everywhere. Now they are rare.

 

[Click]

Nice! Well done, Alan.

 

[Nelu]

Who needs Eye AF. Not me says the House Sparrow. When I was a kid, these sparrers were everywhere. Now they are rare.

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Weird!
Where do you live Alan?
Here, in Calgary, Alberta, they're considered invasive species and a pest. You can't really get rid of them...
This is an European House Sparrow, right?

 

[AlanF]

Weird!
Where do you live Alan?
Here, in Calgary, Alberta, they're considered invasive species and a pest. You can't really get rid of them...
This is an European House Sparrow, right?

England. We'll take all your sparrows if you take the invasive grey squirrels from here.

 

[Nelu]

England. We'll take all your sparrows if you take the invasive grey squirrels from here.

Oh, thanks for the offer but you can keep the squirrels,too. They're on the house; literally!

 

[Bert63]

Nice! Well done, Alan.

Don't worry Alan - they are all over here at our place.

 

[Bert63]

Some shots while playing with my new Econo-Gimbal and carbon fiber legs.

Bewick's Wren





Robin heading home with the chow for the babies.

 

[AlanF]

Rather sad. I was teaching my grandson to cycle when we can across this fledgling dunnock by the side of the road. I tried to put in a bushy area but it kept coming back. If only I had eye AF I would have got its eyes in focus. And these DSLRs don't focus anyway because they need AFMA.

 

[Bert63]

Towhees in the mossy forests of the PNW.

 

[Click]

Very nice shots. Well done, Bert.

 

[Cog]

Western reef heron

 

[HenryL]

Western reef heron

Great job, Cog. I especially like the first one.

 

[Cog]

Thank you, HenryL!
I'm trying to id this tern. He's a smaller kind. Is it a young bridled tern?

 

[Click]

Very nice series, Cog.

 

[Nat_WA]

A Common Tern chick expecting to receive lunch...


... but it has to go into camouflage lockdown as an opportunistic european herring gull passes overhead ...


... to finally receive the long awaited sand eel

(all: 7DmkII, Sigma 60-600 Sport at 600mm, f/7.1 1/1600s ISO250)

W.

 

[Click]

Very nice series, Nat WA. Well done.

 

[Cog]

This young cormorant dived for fish and then came back to the surface right next to my kayak. I think he looks quite bewildered, like "Hey, whatcha doin' here? It's my spot!"

 

[Click]

Another very nice shot, Cog.

 

[HenryL]

This young cormorant dived for fish and then came back to the surface right next to my kayak. I think he looks quite bewildered, like "Hey, whatcha doin' here? It's my spot!"

Nice shot - who was more surprised when he popped up, you or him??? Very fortunate that you had the camera ready at that moment. Well done.

 

[Cog]

Nice shot - who was more surprised when he popped up, you or him??? Very fortunate that you had the camera ready at that moment. Well done.

Thanks! I guess we both were, but for different reasons. I was shooting terns that were feeding and flying around me.