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[Northbird]

Another shot with the 7D Mark II. Really loving this camera. Mediocre light, 800 ISO, 1200mm, F11. Medium crop.


Northern Shrike (Lanius excubitor) by Tony Varela Photography, on Flickr

 

[Click]

Lovely shot Northbird.

 

[DominoDude]

Another shot with the 7D Mark II. Really loving this camera. Mediocre light, 800 ISO, 1200mm, F11. Medium crop.

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It's an interesting bird to see in action. Hard to get close to, and you did a great job, Northbird!

 

[DominoDude]

I just have to post my best effort from a session with Lanius excubitor (homeyeri). Haven't been able to id it fully, so the (homeyeri) is just a hope... The local bird gallery rejected my upload of the shoot, so it wasn't possible to get it checked and verified by the big boys with massive knowledge.

Edit: Oops, forgot to crop so you have to deal with the entire thingy-ma-bob as my 400/5.6L saw the Great Grey Shrike.

Don't know the Great Gray Shrike. Looks quite a bit like our Northern and Loggerheads. Is that a Euro-bird?

I have shots of both male and female of the normally present kind here (and to be honest, there ain't a lot of those either). The Northern and Great Grey seem to be name variations for the Lanius excubitor excubitor - this is the one common in western and northern Europe.
The homeyeri is one out of nine suggested subspecies and it doesn't have any special name of its own in English (nor in Swedish), so it is mostly mentioned as Great Grey Shrike ("Varfågel" in Swedish), and then you add the "homeyeri".

It would have been one of only a handful of sightings here in Sweden, it's a bird that is much more likely to be found near the Black Sea, or in the western Siberia. We had favourable winds a few days in early April last year, and that is when it showed up. Took me 2 days to find it at a military proving ground and it never allowed me to get any closer than 25-30 meters.

The homeyeri subspecies have a few signs that make it differ from the nominate form. Among those are a slightly lighter gray shade on the back, a whiter belly, the speculum feathers shows a larger, wider, white form, there's a hint of white directly above the black mask it has around the eyes and just above the bill, a spread out tail (rather typical when it's flying away from you or hunting) has more white on the outermost feather segments. So, a perched bird in not so good light is very hard to tell which subspecies it belongs to.

 

[ooF Fighters]

Rare for SoCal- a Reddish Egret

 

[rpt]

Rare for SoCal- a Reddish Egret

Lovely!

At first glance the wing and the beak combined looked to me like an umbrella!

 

[Jack Douglas]

Up close and personal. Getting desparate here!

Jack

 

[dslrdummy]

7DII and 70-200 f2.8Lii

 

[Mr Bean]

Gang Gang, male.
5D3 with 300mm f4.

 

[nonac]

7d Mark II
600exrt off camera
70-200 f2.8L II @ 200mm
ISO400
1/250 sec @f/8.0

 

[Click]

Lovely shot nonac. It's beautiful with the snow.

 

[Erik X]

Just a mallard.. taking a bath

 

[Northbird]

Great Blue Heron preening. 7D Mark II


Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) by Tony Varela Photography, on Flickr

 

[nonac]

Lovely shot nonac. It's beautiful with the snow.

Thanks. I really like shooting birds in the snow. Adds something magical to the photo.

 

[nineyards]

7d Mark II
600exrt off camera
70-200 f2.8L II @ 200mm
ISO400
1/250 sec @f/8.0

Great job
Great detail
Love the cross hatching of the feathers

 

[davidgator]

Belted Kingfisher...bad day to be a fish

 

[Northbird]

Belted Kingfisher...bad day to be a fish

Nicely done. Good capture all around. : )

 

[Click]

Belted Kingfisher...bad day to be a fish

Great shot David.

 

[CLohmeyerJr]

Found this Blue Heron sitting in the corner of a lake enjoying the sunshine.

 

[Click]

Very nice first post Charles. Welcome to CR