Show your Bird Portraits

Stewart K said:
You must be close to me Cog, these are daily sightings for me here in Dubai, if your in town give me a shout and I can show you some of the current (excuse the pun) "hot" locations ;)
Hi Stewart,
I'm in Doha, Qatar. I'm not sure if I can travel to Dubai easily. It's nice meeting you, anyway. :)
Vladimir
 
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Isaac Grant said:
We had a major influx of Franklin's Gulls and Cave Swallows into New York City. One evening while looking to photograph Cave Swallows I happened upon a flock of Black Skimmers. Here is my favorite shot that I have ever gotten of a skimmer. This young bird was playing with this leaf. I took this a few moments before the sun set and had to desaturate the pic a bit. Canon 7d2 and Sigma 150-600 C. Have some nice shots of adults as well that will post soon.

Really cool!

sedwards said:
some awesome pics in this thread. pretty hard to keep up
Tree Sparrow
1Ds III
400mm
iso 400
1/800
f 5.6

Making a Tree Sparrow look good and the background fits the image well!
 
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Pretty cool and their positioning is almost symmetrical.

I was laying down on the job, trying to get some waterline shots at a local park. The sun was about to drop behind the mountains but lit up the last White Pelican fairly nicely.
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Jack I love the Bohemian shot. Just great. The 2 birds eating and the symmetry is very nice.

ERHP the pelican is great. Nice low angle, really nice light.

Here is another shot of a very common bird in my area, a Song Sparrow. It is not your everyday shot of a sparrow as it is walking and kicking up sand so an uncommon spin on a common bird.

Song Sparrow by Isaac Grant, on Flickr
 
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Hey Isaac, that's very similar to what my White throated sparrows do when there is seed down under the leaves. It's amazing how on one foot the other foot can be so rapid and powerful. Very nice.

After going through yesterdays waxwings I ended up with so few that were any good - that's the downside of the 1D4 10 fps - a lot of weeding.

Anyway here is another.

Jack
 

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