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[Click]

Great shot, Jack. I really like this picture.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Great shot, Jack. I really like this picture.

Ah Click, your just too easy to please but the complements are always appreciated. I'm still stuck inside doing my floor repairs - what a drag! I take CR breaks every hour.

Jack

 

[Skatol]

+1 and previous shots from others as well. Mine is from a brief break from my labours yesterday.

Jack

Beautiful shot Jack.

 

[Jack Douglas]

+1 and previous shots from others as well. Mine is from a brief break from my labours yesterday.

Jack

Beautiful shot Jack.

Thanks Skatol. When I posted it I thought, I just have a crummy old woodpecker while others are getting the cool shots but I guess it's just "the grass is greener on the other side of the fence", syndrome.

Jack

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Scyrene.
Very nice shot, lovely detail.
Are you getting these shots at home or are you walking / sitting out in the wilderness somewhere?
Same question applies to others too.
Jack I seem to recall you have a bird studio (feathered variety) set up at home! By the way your woody is great, is that the specially made prop tree that got vandalised he/she is working on? Here's hoping you get your home improvements finished soon, I did chuckle about the CR breaks hourly. ;D

Cheers, Graham.

Greenfinch and mistle thrush from today. Both 1000mm, f/10. Alas the best birds I've seen recently didn't pose so nicely!

Nice shots, scyrene. I especially like the first one.

Thanks!

Here's today's best bird, my first common whitethroat of the year.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Hi Scyrene.
Very nice shot, lovely detail.
Are you getting these shots at home or are you walking / sitting out in the wilderness somewhere?
Same question applies to others too.
Jack I seem to recall you have a bird studio (feathered variety) set up at home! By the way your woody is great, is that the specially made prop tree that got vandalised he/she is working on? Here's hoping you get your home improvements finished soon, I did chuckle about the CR breaks hourly. ;D

Cheers, Graham.

Greenfinch and mistle thrush from today. Both 1000mm, f/10. Alas the best birds I've seen recently didn't pose so nicely!

Nice shots, scyrene. I especially like the first one.

Thanks!

Here's today's best bird, my first common whitethroat of the year.

Hi Graham and and any others that wonder about such things. I have two stumps presently elevated so as to be able to shoot birds from my observatory (the bell tower of my shed) North. All stumps always get "vandalized". The "potential" bird nesting stump is another much larger OD hollow stump mounted on the roof of the observatory. East.

Vandalized stumps get retired to the ground either standing or laying over where I scatter seeds and have feeders and finish their life rotting away. Birds can be shot from a lens window facing them; that's north and main floor facing a substantial grove of trees. There is a stool there. The observatory above requires standing and I have a gimbal mounted permanently. That's where luck allows fill the frame shots that would be hard to come by otherwise.

Then I got the brain wave to set up a couple more stumps out in my yard with significant separation hoping that I could get flight shots of birds going from one to the other but I sold the 1D4 in anticipation of the 1DX II and the 6D is frustrating so that has yet to pay significant dividends. The stump you see here is one of those. I watch for interesting fallen or broken off trees, cut them off and drag them home. The neighbors must conclude I'm crazy.

PM me if you want to chat more about such things.

In the sixties the Kingston trio sang a song, the MTA. My floor is like that; I may never finish it! My shooting days may be over. No need for a new camera. However, I've finished the kitchen and nook so cabinets are back in place and we may actually get counter tops and a functional sink soon.

Another (less appealing) shot. ISO 8000 I believe. 300 2.8 X2

Jack

 

[Click]

...Another very nice shot, Jack. Well done.

 

[Jack Douglas]

...Another very nice shot, Jack. Well done.

Thanks Click. Are you able to get out shooting these days?

Jack

 

[Click]

Not at all. Too busy at work.

 

[s.smith]

Here are a few of mine:

Yellow Warbler

EOS 7D, EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 400mm, 1/640 s, f/5.6, ISO 125

Broad-winged Hawk (juvenile)

EOS 7D, EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 400mm, 1/640 s, f/5.6, ISO 160

Great Blue Heron

EOS 7D, EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 400mm, 1/640 s, f/5.6, ISO 640

Bald Eagle

EOS 7D, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L II IS USM @ 200mm, 1/250 s, f/2.8, ISO 200

Eastern Towhee

EOS 7D, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L II IS USM + EF 2x II Extender @ 400mm, 1/160 s, f/5.6, ISO 3200

Pileated Woodpecker

EOS 7D, EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 400mm, 1/640 s, f/5.6, ISO 1250

Northern Mockingbird

EOS 7D, EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 400mm, 1/640 s, f/5.6, ISO 200

Canada Goose

EOS 7D, EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 380mm, 1/500 s, f/5.6, ISO 1250

Thanks for looking!

Great shots. Thanks for sharing.

 

[quod]

Sony A7RII + Metabones T IV + Canon 500/4 II

 

[Click]

Sony A7RII + Metabones T IV + Canon 500/4 II

Beautiful shot. Nicely done, quod.

 

[LSeries]

A Eurasian Jay with 7dmk2 + Sigma 150-600 S @ 600 mm, f/6.3, 1/500 s, ISO 2000:

Eurasian Jay by Jussi Lind, on Flickr

 

[Click]

A Eurasian Jay with 7dmk2 + Sigma 150-600 S @ 600 mm, f/6.3, 1/500 s, ISO 2000:

Great shot. Well done, LSeries.

 

[quod]

Sony A7RII + Metabones T IV + Canon 100-400 II

 

[Click]

Very nice shot, quod.

 

[sedwards]

WHAT DID I JUST SAY ???
5D3_2269 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

 

[Click]

;D Nice one, Stuart.

 

[s.smith]

Fantastic shot!!! Really nice!

 

[2n10]

Burrowing Owl, this is by far the closet I have been able to get to this bird. I was about 45 feet away. I ended up very close to the burrow!