Show your Bird Portraits

[AlanF]

"BIRD IN FIGHT ONLY -- share your BIF photos here"- nice gifs!
Are you sure you posted it on the right forum?!

I think it unnecessary to have separate BIF and Portraits threads. The first post in this Portraits thread says: ‘The main idea of this topic is that the bird is clearly the main part component of the picture and that it is not a bird in flight or small bird on large tree or group shot ... ‘That would exclude many of the shots subsequently posted here.

 

[cooldood]

Wood ducks

 

[Click]

Cute! Nicely done, cooldood.

 

[Hector1970]

Puffin

 

[Hector1970]

Puffin

 

[Click]

Beautiful pictures, Hector. I really like the second shot.

 

[cooldood]

Great shots @Hector1970 where is this?

 

[ERHP]

A Blue Grosbeak in the early morning light.

R5 RF600 f/4L IS w/1.4X 1/2000 : f/7.1 : ISO 1000

One of the Lark Sparrows belting out the morning tunes.

R5 RF600 f/4L IS w/1.4X 1/1600 : f/8 : ISO 1000

 

[AlanF]

A Blue Grosbeak in the early morning light.

R5 RF600 f/4L IS w/1.4X 1/2000 : f/7.1 : ISO 1000

One of the Lark Sparrows belting out the morning tunes.

R5 RF600 f/4L IS w/1.4X 1/1600 : f/8 : ISO 1000

Beautiful!

 

[Click]

Great shots, ERHP.

 

[Hector1970]

Great shots @Hector1970 where is this?

It’s on the Saltee Island in Wexford Ireland

 

[cooldood]

The early bird....


But the second mouse gets the cheese

 

[shire_guy]

Lovely shots @Hector1970 and @ERHP .

 

[josephandrews222]

Northern Cardinal (only cropped...the morning sunlight was great); M6 MkII with adapted EF 70-300II.

Lots of detail here without even trying; yet another reminder that photons are all that matters.


...presumably experienced observers here can explain whether or not the rather large dark cavity in the center of its abdomen is 'normal'?

A quick check of my own cardinal pics...I've not seen this before (I think).

 

[Nemorino]

Wren singing

R5 + RF 100-500L + 1.4TC
not denoised

 

[Click]

Very nice gif !

 

[scyrene]

My turn to post a wren. This one must have a nest in the patch of gorse I was passing earlier today. R6, RF 800 f/11, RF Extender 1.4x; 1120mm, f/16, 1/640s, ISO 3200.

 

[Click]

Very nice shots, scyrene.

. Well done.

 

[scyrene]

Very nice shots, scyrene.

. Well done.

Thanks, Click

 

[ISv]

I was sitting on a bench today and noticed these guys have a pattern getting down to a small water source: this one was very worried by my presence and made it branch by branch, leaf by leaf getting lower and lower (as I did). I missed the moment when it landed in the water because it landed behind of much bigger Red-vented Bulbul...