Show your Bird Portraits

[Keith_Reeder]

Very pretty image, Candyman - shows that you don't need to point the camera at a rarity in order to get a great picture.

 

[candyman]

Very pretty image, Candyman - shows that you don't need to point the camera at a rarity in order to get a great picture.

Thank you Keith.
But it is not often that things come together. Position, light and background. Also some luck but especially patience.
You did some great pictures yourself and very detailed. I love that. It is a true challenge to move up the mfd in order to get that detail. Well done.

 

[Click]

Very nice picture, candyman.

 

[OlAf]

_61A2187 by -OlAf-, on Flickr

 

[candyman]

Very nice picture, candyman.

Thank you Click,
as always appreciated

 

[Mikehit]

Re: A few random favourites

Confiding Cormorant

reed bunting

I love these two, Keith.

 

[AlanF]

Reed warbler yesterday.

 

[Keith_Reeder]

Re: A few random favourites

I love these two, Keith.

Thanks, Mike - they're both from the same trip (East Yorkshire - Bridlington for the Cormorant, Bempton Cliffs for the Corn bunting) and the abiding memory of that time was how satisfying the images coming off my humble 70D were - there was just something about the quality of the files off that little thing that I really liked.

 

[AlanF]

There was a remarkable stand off between a shelduck and an avocet, which the smaller bird won.

 

[LSeries]

Goldeneyes with Canon 7D Mark II + EF 400mm f/5.6L + EF 1.4x II:


Goldeneyes Sleeping On Their Island by Jussi Lind, on Flickr

 

[Click]

OlAf, Alan, LSerie,

Nice pictures, guys.

 

[clbayley]

Common Grackle...tried to show off some iridescence...

 

[Mikehit]

Common Grackle...tried to show off some iridescence...

....and you succeeded, nicely.

 

[Click]

Common Grackle...tried to show off some iridescence...

Nicely done, clbayley.

 

[dslrdummy]

Was driving in the country on the weekend when I caught a sight of this standing in a paddock and in my rush to get the camera from the boot/trunk of the car and take the shot I failed to get the settings right. Wedge-tailed eagle with his/her prey. Pretty average but i guess it's better to get the shot than not.
1dxii and 100-400ii, heavily cropped.

 

[dslrdummy]

_61A2187 by -OlAf-, on Flickr

Lovely portrait that.

 

[Eldar]

While I was out photographing an Osprey, we threw out a fish, trying to tempt the osprey to dive. However, as could be expected, A sea gull saw it first. This image is a bit into the 14 fps series, where the gull is half way through a rotation, due to the size and weight of the fish. Looks like a Fred Astaire dance move

1DX-II, 600 f4L IS II + 1.4xIII

 

[Click]

Great Heron in the morning fog

 

[jprusa]

Great Heron in the morning fog

Nice picture Click.

 

[Click]

Thanks Joseph.