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[applecider]

Varied thrush, a bird I've always found hard to detail for some reason. After that is a December hummingbird, and finally what I think is a song sparrow.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi applecider.
Very nice shots, the varied thrush shot looks like it is just at the back of your depth of focus, though just in focus, judging by the ground in front of it being very sharp, might be that AFMA would help with the detail. It was whilst shooting a gull on the concrete sea wall I discovered I needed to re do my AFMA, same problem.

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers, Graham.

Varied thrush, a bird I've always found hard to detail for some reason.

 

[mackguyver]

Thanks for the nice comments all - I had the good fortune to see this beautiful pair together on Saturday morning, so I thought I'd share it as well:

 

[Don Haines]

Thanks for the nice comments all - I had the good fortune to see this beautiful pair together on Saturday morning, so I thought I'd share it as well:

Nice!

 

[Click]

Thanks for the nice comments all - I had the good fortune to see this beautiful pair together on Saturday morning, so I thought I'd share it as well:

Very nice shot mackguyver.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Again, very nice shots everyone!

I was looking back at the mass of waxwing shots and discovered this of the forked tongue, that I'm still having trouble getting over. What a cooool tongue.

Jack

 

[Eldar]

It´s been very cold up here lately and only the stubborn birds remain, like this Eurasian blue tit. They look more like small balls than birds, there they sit all puffed up to handle the cold.

7DII, 600 f4L IS II
1/640, f5.6, ISO1000

 

[steven kessel]

Not something you see every day. Juvenile Crested Caracara, photographed this week in southern Arizona.

5Diii, 400 DO + 1.4X Extender, ISO 400, "M" setting, f6.3 @ 1/1250

 

[Click]

It´s been very cold up here lately and only the stubborn birds remain, like this Eurasian blue tit. They look more like small balls than birds, there they sit all puffed up to handle the cold.

7DII, 600 f4L IS II
1/640, f5.6, ISO1000

I really like this shot. Nicely done Eldar.

 

[J.R.]

Shoebill - Clicked with my new and shiny 100-400 L II.

 

[Northbird]

Canon 7D MK II, ISO 1250 F5.6 1/500


Golden-crowned kinglet (Regulus satrapa) by Tony Varela Photography, on Flickr

 

[Click]

Lovely shot Northbird.

 

[AlanF]

A couple of close-up portraits (~2 m away) taken this morning at 560mm f/8 100-400 mm II with 1.4xTC on 7DII at iso 2500 and 1/40 (Dunnock) or 1/50s (robin), hand held. The little birds hide in a very dense bush and I have to wiggle the camera around to get a shot through the twigs, and then crop to eliminate the twigs obscuring the rest of the body. I am pretty impressed with what the new lens and camera can do at these very low light levels, hand held. The noise is well controlled, using DxO prime.

 

[IslanderMV]

Purple Sandpiper. They show up every December in the same spot.

100-400mm + 7D

 

[Jeffrey]

From my recent shoot at Bosque del Apache National Game Refuge, New Mexico. These guys were trying to decide whether to take off in such cold weather.

 

[bwud]

Shoebill - Clicked with my new and shiny 100-400 L II.

Love those things. Don't think I'd want one dropping off my next son, though. Nice shot.

 

[Click]

Very nice shot, bwud.

 

[Cog]

Cormorants:

 

[knoxone]

Red Tailed Hawk. This one didn't take off! Canon 7D with Tamron 150-600

 

[Slashp]

Hi all,

Here are a few hummingbirds photos I took last week end:

John