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The Eurasian Coot is ubiquitous for a significant part of the world. The American Coot is ubiquitous for North America and Mexico (and funnily noted for the Hawaiian Islands as wintering - in Wikipedia! There is no single proven report for it's presence on the islands...).
The Hawaiian Coot is endemic to the islands and listed as endangered but if you go to a proper habitat around, you for sure will see them - sometimes in numbers. One of the only few endemic birds on Oahu.
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Here are some more photos through my backyard double pane window (causing some offset reflected images) during our Christmas snow.
All taken handheld with R5 & RF 100-500mm f4.5-7.1L lens, E-1st shutter.
Most needed deep shadow recovery of subject due to lack of direct sunlight and bright background.
500mm, f7.1, 1/1600", ISO 400. Female NC(Northern Cardinal)
500mm, f7.1, 1/320", ISO 400. Male juvenile NC
500mm, f7.1, 1/250", ISO 200. Tufted Titmouse
All taken handheld with R5 & RF 100-500mm f4.5-7.1L lens, E-1st shutter.
Most needed deep shadow recovery of subject due to lack of direct sunlight and bright background.
500mm, f7.1, 1/1600", ISO 400. Female NC(Northern Cardinal)
500mm, f7.1, 1/320", ISO 400. Male juvenile NC
500mm, f7.1, 1/250", ISO 200. Tufted Titmouse
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Today I thought I was going to get some of that great afternoon light under the rain clouds passing through the area. Instead, I got wet. In the process I did have a very cooperative female American Kestrel who was also not so happy about getting wet.
R5 600 II w/1.4X III 1/50 : f/11 : ISO 1000
R5 600 II w/1.4X III 1/50 : f/11 : ISO 1000
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Wet but happy! Much better than dry and empty handed... And I really love this one!!! Great job.Today I thought I was going to get some of that great afternoon light under the rain clouds passing through the area. Instead, I got wet. In the process I did have a very cooperative female American Kestrel who was also not so happy about getting wet.
R5 600 II w/1.4X III 1/50 : f/11 : ISO 1000
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More from the same Christmas window photos.
R5 & RF 100-500 lens.
500mm, f7.1, 1/400", ISO 8000. Female Northern Cardinal
500mm, f7.1, 1/2000", ISO 2000. Male juvenile Northern Cardinal
500mm, f7.1, 1/1600", ISO 2000. Male Northern Cardinal
400mm, f7.1, 1/800", ISO 12800. Female Northern Cardinal (at daybreak)
R5 & RF 100-500 lens.
500mm, f7.1, 1/400", ISO 8000. Female Northern Cardinal
500mm, f7.1, 1/2000", ISO 2000. Male juvenile Northern Cardinal
500mm, f7.1, 1/1600", ISO 2000. Male Northern Cardinal
400mm, f7.1, 1/800", ISO 12800. Female Northern Cardinal (at daybreak)
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Thanks ISv! Though you can see a few rain streaks, the real deluge started about a minute later then a juvenile Red Tailed Hawk landed on top of the tree next to kestrel and she left in a hurry. There was no good light at this point but once the rain let up I did take a few shots of the Red Tail, mainly because I rarely see wet raptors, lol.
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Today I went out to check what my new lens can do in field conditions (after fine-tuning the AF: +1). Rather happy with the results - this is +/- double the distance I use to get acceptable results for the Japanese White-eye (small, ~9-10cm bird) with my older lens. And rather more +++ but I still have to try it with BIF - without good results in this area I wouldn't excuse myself for paying the much higher prize! Well... Huh - I'm not sure!
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Which new lens did you get?
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Thanks, AlanF.
I think a lot of praise belongs to Canon and the R5 and RF 100-500. I just love that lens!
I can get super close to the birds since they know I'm behind the window (which is fairly dark without lights on) and put my lens hood almost against the glass (and clean it as much as possible). If you look at some of the little falling snowflake streaks in my previous post you can see the fainter double image clearly. But "it 'tis what it 'tis".
I don't know how to use Adobe products (which I know are remarkable), but PL4 lets me pull a rabbit out of the hat (well, out of the dark shadows at least) and with some easy tweaks get an interesting photo.
I really like the dark & neon-like feeling of the photo at sunrise - I had no idea they would look like that. Now I'm getting up before daybreak in hopes of capturing more like that.
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