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[serendipidy]

This young BCN Heron and I are now friends. Whenever I feed bread to the fish, he swoops down out of nowhere and lands at the ditch's water's edge at my feet and waits for me to entice the tilapia towards him. Today, he did it again and finally, after 15 minutes and half loaf of bread, he caught his 2nd fish on our team. 7D, 100-400mmL, F7.1, 1/100-1/160s, ISO 400, handheld with 580EX II flash and Better Beamer. PP in DPP. 1st 2 shots @285mm, rest @400mm.
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[serendipidy]

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[rpt]

This young BCN Heron and I are now friends. Whenever I feed bread to the fish, he swoops down out of nowhere and lands at the ditch's water's edge at my feet and waits for me to entice the tilapia towards him. Today, he did it again and finally, after 15 minutes and half loaf of bread, he caught his 2nd fish on our team. 7D, 100-400mmL, F7.1, 1/100-1/160s, ISO 400, handheld with 580EX II flash and Better Beamer. PP in DPP. 1st 2 shots @285mm, rest @400mm.
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So you finally taught him to fish!

Great pictures!

 

[serendipidy]

Thanks rpt for the kind words.

 

[Omar H]

Mexican Grackle


Chanate by Omar H, on Flickr

 

[jrista]

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Phenomenal shots, Serendipity. It must feel good to have a little wild friend, eh?

 

[adamfilip]

http://500px.com/photo/23642715

 

[serendipidy]

Thanks jrista. It's always good to make new friends.

 

[knkedlaya]

Emarald dove

 

[serendipidy]

This morning I go out to get the paper and my Heron friend swoops down and wants me to help him fish again. So I go in and get my 7D and 100-400L and a loaf of bread. We try about 5 minutes with no luck and then this brown heron lands on the opposite canal bank. This brown heron only comes around occasionally and she usually chases off my black heron friend (so they are either enemies or married ). After a minute, the black heron takes off soon followed by the brown heron. So I feed the 2 nesting Moorhens that have taken up residence here. They have gone through 3 different nests and have had to abandon them for one reason or another. I happen to be there when they exchange places on the current nest and discover they have 6 eggs incubating. I hope they hatch and I can get some photos of baby Moorhens. I'm worried because Herons eat baby chicks.

Some shots from this morning. Sorry, but it was 3 hours after sunrise and I was looking into the sun direction (couldn't be avoided). Thanks for looking and constructive comments welcomed.

 

[serendipidy]

The Moorhen nest with 6 eggs.

 

[serendipidy]

Last one. 8)

 

[Idiot4Hire]

Hi Guys,

I am new to the forum and this is my first post.
This is one of the friendly Rainbow Lorikeets that frequent the apple trees at the back of my work. I shot this on my 7D with my old ef-s 55-250mm kit lens. I hope you like it.

 

[serendipidy]

Idiot4Hire

Beautiful photo...I love how colorful it is. also liked the dragonflies you posted on another thread today. Welcome to CR and keep posting

 

[strikerwy]

Sharptail Grouse strutting.

 

[Renegade Runner]

Victoria Crowned Pigeon
6D
221mm
f5.2
1/200

 

[serendipidy]

Victoria Crowned Pigeon
6D
221mm
f5.2
1/200

Very nice! What a beautiful and unusual bird. Crazy hat she's wearing ;D

 

[Click]

Hi Guys,

I am new to the forum and this is my first post.
This is one of the friendly Rainbow Lorikeets that frequent the apple trees at the back of my work. I shot this on my 7D with my old ef-s 55-250mm kit lens. I hope you like it.

Nice shot. Beautiful colored bird. Welcome to cr.

 

[rpt]

Continuing on the birds without feet theme
Oh! This is not cropped! Not modified! Straight out of camera RAW converted to jpg in DPP. Then resized in XnView. I could enter it into a NatGeo competition! Do they do one for birds without feet? I mean it is a unique category! I have a few for birds without heads too if they do that



Models should follow the given script. I mean could he not see that I had the 1.4x multiplier on and it was not just the 100-400L?

 

[rpt]

I4H, Renegade, strikerwy, knkedlaya, Omar and many more, Thank you for sharing. It helps me get off my back end and look for pictures. It is another matter that I may not get what I hoped for, but every so often something lands in my lap - or should I say that a whole load of photons collide with my camera's sensor and form a picture that I was hoping for. What are the chances? Probability? Parallel universes? whatever...

Later, I add a copyright notice. Makes sense doesn't it? We humans rule the universes and more...