Whatever follows, I do hope we can keep this thread going. I have been inspired by all of you and learned so much.
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Show your Bird Portraits
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The oof blur is enough to show speed without the disorientation of focussed background whizzing past. Learning by experience.
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Got a Skylark ascending this afternoon. This where a little gif really shows them in action, and a video with sound is even better. They are great fun to watch and listen to.
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Beautiful light yesterday afternoon, although low in the sky, and we visited a reservoir. A Little Egret in flight and Wigeon captured at 700mm with the RF 1.4x on the 100-500 on R5, and at 500mm a Goosander, which we see only rarely. All crops at original size.
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Just to show how good the 100-500mm + RF 1.4x is on the R5, an Oyster Catcher. It was on a tiny island in the centre of the reservoir, about 150-200m away. My wife with the bins thought it was an Oyster Catcher, and I could only just make out a small black and white bird. The shot is good enough to make out clearly, only some 330x200px.
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I'm not aware of any established population on Oahu. On some of the other Hawaiian Islands they seem to do better (Maui for example).
I think everything I have seen here are "cage birds got free"
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I was not expecting to see anything of interest today but someone in the hide spotted an unusual bird. I got it at 1000mm on the R5, and found it to be a Chiloe Wigeon or hybrid thereof. It's a South American bird and so must be an escapee from a collection.
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