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[Click]

Another very nice series, Maximilian.

 

[ISO64]

ISO64 and Ramage,

Very nice series, guys. ISO64, I really like your first shot. Well done.

Thanks Click!

 

[ISO64]

House wren (North America) - miniscule bird with powerful voice:

 

[Click]

Beautiful shot. Well done, ISO64.

 

[AlanF]

The Arctic Terns are back! It's a great time of year. (R5/500mm).

 

[dcm]

Pelican and Great Blue Heron at City Park Pond on a cloudy, rainy day.
R6 + RF800, handheld. DxO PL5.

 

[ISO64]

Thanks Click!

 

[ISv]

You lucky Americans with so many warblers!

And way more colorful than the European warblers! But what I have to say from Hawaii - no warblers here at all...

 

[Click]

Pelican and Great Blue Heron at City Park Pond on a cloudy, rainy day.

Nice series. I especially like the Pelican.

 

[Maximilian]

Backlit herring gull (larus argentatus).
5D4, 24-105L @105, 1/1250, f/22, ISO100.
Slight differences in pose, sky and flare.
Please tell me which one you like more and why. Thanks in advance.
1st

2nd

 

[AlanF]

I took some shots as reflex action of a Grey Heron flying overhead and saw this evening a peculiar growth from under its neck. Any ideas what it could be?

 

[Maximilian]

I took some shots as reflex action of a Grey Heron flying overhead and saw this evening a peculiar growth from under its neck. Any ideas what it could be?

Instant thought:
Hanging out of the left side of its beak, it‘s a birds leg with some ringing

 

[AlanF]

Instant thought:
Hanging out of the left side of its beak, it‘s a birds leg with some ringing

I don't think so. Here is another crop with the exposure increased. You can see that the appendage appears to start from behind the beak, which is fully closed anyway. But, maybe it's an optical illusion.

 

[jmeyer]

Instead of the usual profile warbler pictures, here are a few of them looking directly at me. Funny views if you ask me!

Jeremy

 

[jmeyer]

a few more...

 

[Maximilian]

I don't think so. Here is another crop with the exposure increased. You can see that the appendage appears to start from behind the beak, which is fully closed anyway...

Yeah! I agree with you. It's a strange thing. I have no real idea.

The end looks like a feather that's glued together by some blood or mud. Maybe something glued together with its breast feathers

 

[Click]

I really like your series, Jeremy.

 

[AlanF]

Yeah! I agree with you. It's a strange thing. I have no real idea.

The end looks like a feather that's glued together by some blood or mud. Maybe something glued together with its breast feathers

I have been asked to pass the photos on to a researcher as it appears to be an example of an oral fistula https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/ornithology/0ral-fistula-project.aspx

 

[Click]

I have been asked to pass the photos on to a researcher as it appears to be an example of an oral fistula https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/ornithology/0ral-fistula-project.aspx

Oh boy! Strange condition. Thanks for sharing, Alan.

 

[AlanF]

A pair of male Little Grebes fought it out this afternoon with a female watching on. A bit like some of the threads here,