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Northern shoveler, yesterday afternoon. What appears to be a severe case of digital noise isn't. A combine was harvesting fairly close by. They kick up an incredible amount of grain dust. It covered the water and the ducks. In fact it made the sky seem foggy and I had some difficulty breathing for part of my daily walk around the local reservoir. I probably should have ceased and desisted.
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Thanks DPC, glad someone knows their Gulls!!dpc said:
I went backwards and forwards between the California and Ring Billed, I used eBird to help me ID it and the California seemed to be the more common of the two within the Seattle area.
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clbayley, lovely shot of the little bird. A favorite of mine based on it's typically good behaviour - a role model if you like. 
While what you say is true, around here there are so many, literally dozens coming and going from my feeders that there is always one sitting for a few seconds. Reminds me of how hard it is for me to get a Black-crowned Night heron shot while for others it's virtually trivial. There are cases where the other side of the fence is definitely greener.
Jack
While what you say is true, around here there are so many, literally dozens coming and going from my feeders that there is always one sitting for a few seconds. Reminds me of how hard it is for me to get a Black-crowned Night heron shot while for others it's virtually trivial. There are cases where the other side of the fence is definitely greener.
Jack
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clbayley said:
For me it seems to vary by season, time-of-day, etc. Sometimes they won't hold still for long enough to find them in the viewfinder and focus, other times they'll pose nicely for a dozen shots. My initial guess is that they're most active when feeding. Lately I've had success with chickadees and kinglets by finding a flock that's in a feeding sweep along a trail and letting them come to me: by standing still I've been able to get some close shots of kinglets (which had previously been nearly impossible). Listen for them, and let them come to you.
Regards,
O
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It was a beautiful, bright morning and I took time off as I have to work on Sunday. The 400mm DO II really came into its own at 800mm with the 2xTC on the 5DIV. I was able to take some opportunistic shots while walking of some Stonechats - a winter female and a first-winter male. They were both small dots in the centre of the image (100 crops shown), but they are sharp enough to go in a printed album. The guy lugging an 800mm f/5.6 Nikon on a tripod couldn't take these.
I preferred using DPP, with minimal PP, rather than DxO as the noise is low and Canon DPP gives warmer colours and more detail.
I preferred using DPP, with minimal PP, rather than DxO as the noise is low and Canon DPP gives warmer colours and more detail.
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Click said:
Well Alan, that's what we're after right - more reach with decent quality, and it looks like you're doing fine.
Jack
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jrista in the thread about the 80D sensor was emphasising the importance of the sun behind you, and there was another quote about pressing the delete key for BIB - birds in backlight. Yesterday morning, the sun was low in the sky, bright and behind me so I was able to capture a lot of detail of this far off kingfisher, which is only 750-800 pixels high, even with my 400mm DO at 800mm on the 5DIV.
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