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Alan, I love the photo of the Northern Mocingbird. No idea how did you crop it but if you give it some air in front - if there is a room for this off course (just to free it from the cage!)... And Yeah - that dry branch in front of the bird... I wish I know a program that be able to eliminate it (shades on the bird can stay)...
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Today I went to Shamrock Nature Center in hopes of finally finding the Florida Scrub Jay. I got all the way to the water canal on the north end and found them on the other side. I also saw a Loggerhead Shrike on the other side as well! I decided to walk back to the car and drive all the way around and then walk 2.5 miles, one way to where they were. I'm glad I did, because I got great looks at both birds, and both were firsts for me. There ended up being 8 Scrub Jays, with a pair building a nest. I was lucky enough to feed acorns to a couple of them, right from my hand. He also flew up and landed on my head, very exciting!
Jeremy
Jeremy
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Very nice photos Jeremy!! Oh wait, you posted some more before my answer 
. OK - they are equally good if not better...
Hey, could you stop running here and there, so I can answer your posts in time?!
. OK - they are equally good if not better...Hey, could you stop running here and there, so I can answer your posts in time
?!
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It was cropped according to the rule of thirds, with the eye in the optimal position to draw attention to it against the blue light - it was meant to be a composition showing the bird surrounded by colours in a natural background, and I didn't want to lose the bird. I had taken several of mockingbirds in different locations in Florida against the sky last month , and used different approaches for composition.
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Hi Jeremy.
Great story and experience behind the shots, and a great series of shots, I particularly like the 4th shot, the head and shoulders portrait. Excellent.
Cheers, Graham.
Great story and experience behind the shots, and a great series of shots, I particularly like the 4th shot, the head and shoulders portrait. Excellent.
Cheers, Graham.
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Thanks guys! I'm taking the wife with me today to see the scrub jays. She was really disappointed when she didn't come me with yesterday, haha! Then we'll head up to Celery Fields and get the Roseati Spoonbills and anything else that's around.
Jeremy
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Apologies for the late reply, been a bit busy of late.
I can concur with what he was experiencing with the 100-400 and the R in low light.
Was thinking at the time that the fabled firmware update might resolve the issue.
I updated firmware when it was released and managed a trip to Sungei today
Nothing much worth shooting today but the 100-400 was a lot more responsive when focusing.
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You should have got some photos of them Alan. What you saw were some genuine Canadian Snow Birds!
In case you don't know that is a widely used euphemism for Canadians fleeing the cold north to go south for the winter.
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I went today to chase the Red-billed Tropicbirds again (already 5 times in row...). First time in my life I was able to see it (in real) with all features in display. Photos are miserable, but it is single bird around and one has not much opportunity to get it right in photo (This is rare visitor to the Islands, in the last years present with 1, may be 2 birds/per year).
Next is the much more common Red-Tailed Tropicbird. In the close-up photo it suddenly went up from the nearby cliff - no time for zooming back (from 500mm) and the distance according the exif file was only ~12 meters. Any way one can see the white streamers in the first bird (the Red-billed...) and the red in the second Red-tailed...). Plus the red bill and heavy black markings on the back of the Red-billed (the third existing Tropic Bird is the Withe - tailed but it has yellow to pale orange bill and different markings on the back.).
These are easy to separate and they are only 3 species in the world.
Huh, the last photo should explane why I post these pics here, not in BIF (but the real reason is that I'm not confident posting in BIF - I have to upgrade my system - it's too slow for BIF. Please don't tell this to my wife)!
Next is the much more common Red-Tailed Tropicbird. In the close-up photo it suddenly went up from the nearby cliff - no time for zooming back (from 500mm) and the distance according the exif file was only ~12 meters. Any way one can see the white streamers in the first bird (the Red-billed...) and the red in the second Red-tailed...). Plus the red bill and heavy black markings on the back of the Red-billed (the third existing Tropic Bird is the Withe - tailed but it has yellow to pale orange bill and different markings on the back.).
These are easy to separate and they are only 3 species in the world.Huh, the last photo should explane why I post these pics here, not in BIF (but the real reason is that I'm not confident posting in BIF - I have to upgrade my system - it's too slow for BIF. Please don't tell this to my wife
)!
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Very nice pictures of such a wonderful bird ISv! You may not be 100% happy with the quality, but I'm 100% impressed with them anyhow
!I can sympathize with you there - when I only had my 50D BiF was out of my league; with the 7DmkII at least I have 'a fighting chance'... (although your camera body already has better AF tracking than a 50DHuh, the last photo should explane why I post these pics here, not in BIF (but the real reason is that I'm not confident posting in BIF - I have to upgrade my system - it's too slow for BIF. Please don't tell this to my wife
). I suppose it won't do a lot of good if I tell your wife that you really need a D500 or D850 or so ...W.
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