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Learned something new today. Dropped the image in the Cornell Merlin app with my location and got Great Blue Heron, changed the location to Cambridge, England (just a guess) and got Grey Heron. The regions don't overlap, but the birds are similar. GBH is a larger bird, has a longer, S shaped neck when not extended, and rufous thigh/wrist colors versus whiter on the GH. That can be hard to tell from an image.
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These are from today: another try for The Sparrow. And I was not alone photog there (by the same reason - The Sparrow 
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Took plenty of photos, most of them need DxO PL: very unfortunate time of the day resulting in very contrast light. The last one is mainly to illustrate the relative symmetry of the black feathers - good to separate from some other cases (that are not true leucism).
)!Took plenty of photos, most of them need DxO PL: very unfortunate time of the day resulting in very contrast light. The last one is mainly to illustrate the relative symmetry of the black feathers - good to separate from some other cases (that are not true leucism).
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Powerful Owl
There was another Powerful Owl higher up in the tree but I couldn't see a nest. From the droppings below it looks like they had enjoyed a possum recently.
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There was another Powerful Owl higher up in the tree but I couldn't see a nest. From the droppings below it looks like they had enjoyed a possum recently.
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I took this photo in Kyoto. I also believe this is a grey heron. But I am in no way a specialist!Just Gray Heron: at this exposure the thighs of the Great Blue should be much darker. Off course Del Paso can easily solve the problem if he tells us where he took the photo. If he say's Americas I have to shoot myself (Great Blue is rare vagrant to Europe!) He should make it faster because I'm holding Pfeifer Zeliska .600 Nitro Express - so heavy for a long holding)!
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No reason: the Great Blue is not a natural inhabitant of Japan and as I know it's not recorded even as a vagrant. I survived so far
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It's what I'm actually doing: I don't own a gunNext time when you want to shoot: use your camera.
!I have 3 cameras and a cell-phone, only the last one is good for fast shooting to my face...
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Fun with an old lens. R7 + Nikon 1000mm mirror lens. A lot of junk images, and DOF is paper thin, but if you nail focus the lens is remarkably sharp. Not as good as the 200-800, but certainly usable with enough patience.
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Interesting... Very interesting combo!
"...but certainly usable with enough patience." - I think you mean the birds must have "enough patience"?
And yes: I like these photos because of the framing, background and mostly your ability to take (some!) photos of birds with that kind of lens: even some wind (if the bird has the patience to stay motionless until you are focusing) will make this very difficult exercise!
And "Not as good as the 200-800" made me really laughing!I think the word "Fun" that you used explains everything!
"...but certainly usable with enough patience." - I think you mean the birds must have "enough patience"?
And yes: I like these photos because of the framing, background and mostly your ability to take (some
!) photos of birds with that kind of lens: even some wind (if the bird has the patience to stay motionless until you are focusing) will make this very difficult exercise!And "Not as good as the 200-800" made me really laughing
!I think the word "Fun" that you used explains everything!
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