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[Click]

Nice seires, ISv.

 

[lion rock]

ISv,
Good shots.
Anticipate the Oahu shots.
-r

 

[Jack Douglas]

ISv, I'll be there, just not in person. Yesterday I walked around in deep snow, without 400 X2 thinking that the sun and shadows would provide something interesting but either my imagination isn't good enough or Alberta bush in March just doesn't have much to offer. I did scare a Ruffed grouse into a tree but no lens. Balance this against whatever you have going.

Jack

 

[Don Haines]

Hi Cog.
Yet again top quality work.

Cheers, Graham.

Thank you, Graham! It was a good trip to a small island full of cormorants and other birds. I had quite a few keepers. I'll share two more cormorant pics.

Both appear to be soft in the neck area..... (the bird, not the picture)

Nice shot, very interesting.....

 

[Talys]

I shot a photograph of this lovely duck today

 

[mdmphoto]

I had just short walk to the UH campus today - just to see if there are any baby White terns there. Found two (actually the first one was found by somebody else, I just used the opportunity...).

Excellent series, ISv...

 

[Jack Douglas]

Your Wood duck is something else!

Jack

 

[scottkinfw]

I went to The Fort Worth Zoo yesterday and captured some flamingos and a crane.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Captured - yes, did you have your arm around their neck? V nice.

Jack

 

[Talys]

Your Wood duck is something else!

Jack

Thanks, Jack!

 

[Nat_WA]

A good weekend for birds
Cog - v. nice set of cormorants - I especially like the second one - the symmetry in the body / wings straight from the back...
ISv - nice series of the baby tern - pity you missed the actual feeding, big fish for such a small bird...!
Talys - beautiful colours and texture in that duck
scottkinfw - you seem to be very close to those flamingos... shows that you do not always need long telephoto lenses to take a fine bird portrait!

Wiebe.

 

[Nat_WA]

A few older ones from "Birds of Eden" free flight bird sanctuary, Plettenberg - South Africa (still taken with 50D and first gen. 100-400mm)

 

[Nat_WA]

and another few of the same place

 

[Click]

I shot a photograph of this lovely duck today

Beautiful. Nicely done, Phil.

 

[Click]

Scottkinfw and Wiebe,

Very nice pictures. Well done.

 

[tron]

Your Wood duck is something else!

Jack

+1 It is so nice that it almost looks as if someone sculpted it and painted it there

 

[Talys]

Tron, Click, Jack, & Nat -- thank you

Cog, as always, very nice! What a beautiful bird.

Nat, those are great shots. I love the very colorful fella 8) He's strutting his stuff!!

Scott, the flamingos practically write their own captions! Nice

 

[scottkinfw]

Captured - yes, did you have your arm around their neck? V nice.

Jack

Thank you Jack.

Actually, I used my 16-35 @ 16 and got as close as I could without falling in. The flamingos were so adapted to people they didn't care that I was in their beaks!

I used my 300 for the crane which was only about 15 feet away.
Scott

 

[scottkinfw]

A few older ones from "Birds of Eden" free flight bird sanctuary, Plettenberg - South Africa (still taken with 50D and first gen. 100-400mm)

Beautiful.

Sek

 

[scottkinfw]

Scottkinfw and Wiebe,

Very nice pictures. Well done.

Thank you.

Scott