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[Click]

Beautiful series, ISv. I especially like the 2nd and 4th picture.

 

[AlanF]

Dunnock today. R5 + RF100-400mm, iso 4000, 1/320s.

 

[ISv]

Dunnock today. R5 + RF100-400mm, iso 4000, 1/320s.

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For this one I had to go 2500m above the see level in 2019! And my photos are just fraction of the quality of yours (the bird didn't want to collaborate!).
Life is not... what ever...

 

[ISv]

And some from today - went to a beach park mostly for the walk. Fortunately my pocket size combo (D500 + 500mm PF) was with me. The birds are not interesting but I like the low level photos of the Pacific Golden Plover, especially the one with the red ring from a parked car in the far background.
The Night Heron? - Just to show I can take also a "high level" photos (just trying to incorporate a second layer in my humor!)!!!
On other hand you shoot what you have in front of you (the alternative is not to shoot at all - not my coffee!).

 

[AlanF]

And some from today - went to a beach park mostly for the walk. Fortunately my pocket size combo (D500 + 500mm PF) was with me. The birds are not interesting but I like the low level photos of the Pacific Golden Plover, especially the one with the red ring from a parked car in the far background.
The Night Heron? - Just to show I can take also a "high level" photos (just trying to incorporate a second layer in my humor!)!!!
On other hand you shoot what you have in front of you (the alternative is not to shoot at all - not my coffee!).

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I wish I had beaches like yours!

 

[Click]

Nice. Well done, ISv.

 

[Click]

Dunnock today. R5 + RF100-400mm, iso 4000, 1/320s.

Beautiful shot, Alan.

 

[ISv]

Nice. Well done, ISv.

Thanks Click! For really "nice done" it needs more open aperture: the bright spots would be more buttery! I'm learning!

 

[DanP]

Wood Duck by IR converted camera (G1X).

 

[ISv]

I wish I had beaches like yours!

Well, I would like to shoot in the nature you have like "given" - what is common for one is kind of precious for others! And I'm pretty sure you know it!

 

[Click]

Nice IR, Dan.

 

[AlanF]

Well, I would like to shoot in the nature you have like "given" - what is common for one is kind of precious for others! And I'm pretty sure you know it!

Even so, if I had the choice of photographing birds at the North Pole or on the equator (Ecuador), I know what I would choose, especially in December.

 

[ISv]

Even so, if I had the choice of photographing birds at the North Pole or on the equator (Ecuador), I know what I would choose, especially in December.

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Sorry Alan - I just forgot that it's a ~winter for some guys!

 

[SteveC]

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Sorry Alan - I just forgot that it's a ~winter for some guys!

December at the north pole? You're going to need a ton of dynamic range to separate coal-black backgrounds from coal-black birds. If any are there for the 6 month night!

 

[AlanF]

December at the north pole? You're going to need a ton of dynamic range to separate coal-black backgrounds from coal-black birds. If any are there for the 6 month night!

Even at the very North Pole, night without any twilight lasts only 11 weeks, and there can be moonlight. But, that's not enough light to tempt me there.

 

[SteveC]

Even at the very North Pole, night without any twilight lasts only 11 weeks, and there can be moonlight. But, that's not enough light to tempt me there.

To say nothing of the fact that I can't imagine any birds would actually be there.

The high arctic land (more likely bogs) during summer is a completely different story.

 

[EricN]

To say nothing of the fact that I can't imagine any birds would actually be there.

The high arctic land (more likely bogs) during summer is a completely different story.

What birds would you see in summer?

 

[SteveC]

What birds would you see in summer?

I'm not a birder, but I'm sure on general principles that some birds are up there in the High Arctic during summer. Taking a quick look, here's a link to an article talking about birds of the arctic.

This isn't the north pole, per se, but the high arctic (northern North America and presumably northern Eurasia). This was simply the first thing that turned up on a Google search.

I don't know how many of these are year-round residents.

 

[EricN]

ohh yeah... google...

 

[DanP]

First time seeing this head position behavior from Geese. Only two of a group of eight kept their heads down. It probably means something.