BIRD IN FLIGHT ONLY -- share your BIF photos here
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A group of adult and juvenile Eurasian spoonbills (Platalea leucorodia, or common spoonbill) returning from feeding to their resting place that is, unfortunately, at the opposite end of the water, quite a distance from the photohide. It looked as if they were having fun with aerobatics.
R5 Mk II with EF 600mm f4 II lens + 1.4 extender. The RAW file is soft from heat haze, but some tweaking in LR provided an acceptably sharp result.
R5 Mk II with EF 600mm f4 II lens + 1.4 extender. The RAW file is soft from heat haze, but some tweaking in LR provided an acceptably sharp result.
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What is the blue band on its right wing?I mean soft as in mendable and soft to the touch (not stiff) - I don't mean soft as in not sharp
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Nope, it's not a shadow. Looks like a plastic(?) band to me: check it at magnification, especially at the edge of the wing!
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My goal today were Masked or Coccos Booby. Didn't see any of them.
Instead Wedge-tailed Shearwater (x3 -light form), the very common here Red-footed Booby and most probably Great Frigatebird (immature - see the white head! It's opposite to the humans
). The last one just for the record but I'm also little bit puzzled by the shape of the white spot: can't decide if that small extensions of white are going to the axillaries (Than it's a Lesser Frigatebirdor, rare vagrant to the main Hawaiian Islands!!!), or they are still on the body...
Edited: at last check -NOPE, not a Lesser
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Instead Wedge-tailed Shearwater (x3 -light form), the very common here Red-footed Booby and most probably Great Frigatebird (immature - see the white head! It's opposite to the humans
). The last one just for the record but I'm also little bit puzzled by the shape of the white spot: can't decide if that small extensions of white are going to the axillaries (Than it's a Lesser Frigatebirdor, rare vagrant to the main Hawaiian Islands!!!), or they are still on the body...Edited: at last check -NOPE, not a Lesser
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It is a shadow. Camera white balance pulls brightest details to be white. Those are in direct sun so contain red part of sun spectrum. White feathers in shade receive only diffuse light from sky that is predominantly blue.
Any shade on white or gray is of opposite colour balance to the light source. Just look at old school watercolour masters, J.W.M. Turner conveyed the warmth of the scene by fooling our eyes by cool blue tones in shades.
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Are you sure it is a shadow? The edges are very well-defined and you can see a triangular region of white at the bottom left of the blue band which you would think would also be in shadow. We have yet to hear from the poster.
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I am thinking of the Blue Riband of the Atlantic for the fastes gull.
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