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[Talys]

Great shots, ISv! They look so well fed and content

 

[Jack Douglas]

Great shots, ISv! They look so well fed and content

+1 and Talys you too. I also got out this weekend to Miquelon Lake Provincial Park, Alberta. It's a reasonably large but very shallow lake that's alkaline and so it attracts quite a variety of birds.

Jack

 

[Nat_WA]

Haven't posted anything for a long time 8)

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Excellent picture Robin, beautiful light and perfect exposure, combined with an almost intimate composition!
Did you have your camera remotely triggered? The perspective suggests the camera was very close to the puffins... and I'm not sure those puffins would be so at ease with a person within arms length

Wiebe.

 

[Nat_WA]

Few from recent Costa Rica trip

Nice!


Love the blue.... that colour seems to jump out at you!

+1 on that, but they are all very nice!

Wiebe.

 

[Nat_WA]

Two from today - the first one at short distance - no atmospheric influence. For the second one I knew it's not going to be good (at least up to now I did'n succeed with these conditions) - about 30 meters/yards, very hot day, shallow layer of water, I call it "low quality air". On other hand it's my first White - faced Ibis (see the red iris, it separates it from the Glossy Ibis0

First one is really endearing those two birds cuddling together...
Second one, although I understand what you mean with "low quality air", to me quality (and picture) look very good! (I've had worse in sunny, hot conditions) Maybe not at pixel peeping magnification, but who cares :

Wiebe.

 

[Nat_WA]

I haven't had much time for photography recently, but this one turned out pretty well! A hummingbird coming by and visiting on a hot summer day 8)

Very nice Talys / Phil; I like the composition with the bird "sandwiched" between those OoF green leaves!

Wiebe.

 

[Nat_WA]

Great shots, ISv! They look so well fed and content

+1 and Talys you too. I also got out this weekend to Miquelon Lake Provincial Park, Alberta. It's a reasonably large but very shallow lake that's alkaline and so it attracts quite a variety of birds.

Jack

Nice pictures Jack, nice reflections on the first and a (to me) new kind of duck in the second... Do those always have such a set of cocky tail feathers or is it just posing ?

Wiebe.

 

[Click]

Nice pictures, Jack.

 

[lion rock]

Talys, ISv and Jack,
You made excellent shots!
-r

 

[dpc]

Fishing buddies down by the river yesterday afternoon...

 

[dpc]

Two point landing...

 

[dpc]

Fishing...

 

[Talys]

Wow, cool shots dpc. Thanks for sharing!

I think they might have caught more fish than you?

 

[Jack Douglas]

Thanks guys. Wiebe, I'm guessing that's breeding coloration. The male was definitely showing off to a mate and quite at ease. They are common there but I don't get them on my pond.

With new posters and the regulars this is becoming a very inspirational thread!

Help with this one - doesn't seem to fit Wilson's Phalarope but ... what else??

Jack

 

[Click]

Dpc and Jack,

Very nice pictures, guys.

 

[ISv]

Thanks guys. Wiebe, I'm guessing that's breeding coloration. The male was definitely showing off to a mate and quite at ease. They are common there but I don't get them on my pond.

With new posters and the regulars this is becoming a very inspirational thread!

Help with this one - doesn't seem to fit Wilson's Phalarope but ... what else??

Jack

Hi Jack, I don't understand why it should not fit the Wilson's?
For me it is a female Wilson's in breeding plumage (lucky you, I still have to see it in wild...).

Sorry guys but I have to run - busy day, will write more once I get back home in the evening.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Thanks click.

Thanks Isv for the ID.

Jack

 

[dpc]

Thanks Talys and Click!

 

[ISv]

Great shots, ISv! They look so well fed and content

Thanks Talys! These are fledglings of the Common Waxbill. In area full of grass with tasty seeds ! They were initially 4 on that branch but two of them didn't like me !

 

[ISv]

Great shots, ISv! They look so well fed and content

+1 and Talys you too. I also got out this weekend to Miquelon Lake Provincial Park, Alberta. It's a reasonably large but very shallow lake that's alkaline and so it attracts quite a variety of birds.

Jack

Nice shots Jack! I don't think I will ever see a male Rudy duck in breeding here, on the islands!