Show your Bird Portraits

[bwfishing]

I can't tell you how much I really love this image BW! Composition is awesome, the charred tree, it's overall just a really great image, congratulations!

Thank you, Ken! I saw the image in the viewfinder after taking this shot and told the person next to me that I really love this owl

 

[Rienzphotoz]

Great Grey Owl

For some reason that owl reminds me of "Gandalf the Grey" (from Lord of the Rings) ... Man that owl has so much character ... superb image ... Great job.

 

[greger]

I might have not posted a portrait. I apologize in advance. This is my best pic so far with my 7D 70-200 F4 and 2X.

 

[bjd]

Great Grey Owl

For some reason that owl reminds me of "Gandalf the Grey" (from Lord of the Rings) ... Man that owl has so much character ... superb image ... Great job.

Great shot, seems somehow to remind me of Marvin. ;D

How did you get the shot? In the wild?

Cheers Brian

 

[Rienzphotoz]

Here is a White Cheeked Bulbul (Pycononotus leucogenys) ... this guy (or gal) was perched on the tip of a branch singing during a nasty dust storm ... the brown background is the dust storm but using a better beamer (on 600EX-RT) helped isolate the bird and make the background look a lot better than the horrible dust storm my eyes could see.
Image made with:
5D MK III + Sigma 150-500mm OS at 500mm, f/11, ISO 160 & 600 EX-RT with Better Beamer Flash Extender

 

[bjd]

Nothing too startling here, just a Siskin Squabble, a lone Siskin, a Robin and a Blue Tit attack:

Canon 5DIII EF 100-400

 

[Ardan]

Grey heron. Bumped into this guy while walking in the harbour near the fishing docks. He really wasn't all that shy, I suppose the fishermen there feed him a fish occasionally.

60D + 70-200 f/4 IS + 1.4x iii @ 280mm, f/5.6, ISO 200

 

[Rienzphotoz]

Nothing too startling here, just a Siskin Squabble, a lone Siskin, a Robin and a Blue Tit attack:

Canon 5DIII EF 100-400

The first pic of the 2 birds is definitely sterling.

 

[CTJohn]

A few more Everglades shots. 7D with 70-300L.

 

[InterMurph]

You people know what a "portrait" is, don't you?

 

[TWI by Dustin Abbott]

Canon 6D + 70-300L @300mm, f/5.6. Shot in the middle of snow storm, so the color is muted (but in a nice way)


Better than Winter by Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott, on Flickr

 

[Rienzphotoz]

You people know what a "portrait" is, don't you?

A penis ( Gallus domesticus)

 

[applecider]

Thank you Steven Kessel for the bird id
Yellow Rumped Warbler,, a skittery little bird caught at 1/2500 f6.3 iso 1600 1dx

 

[bwfishing]

Sarcoramphus papa (King Vulture)



200mm f/2.8L II USM on a 5D Mark II

 

[bwfishing]

One more... Golden Eagle



70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM on a 5D Mark II

 

[RMC33]

Red Tail Hawk
1Dx, 500 f/4II and 1.4x TC III
ISO 400, f/8 @ 1/1600

 

[dolina]

Thank you everyone and lovely images everyone!


Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) by alabang, on Flickr

The Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) (also known as the "swamp chicken"[2]) is a bird in the Rallidae family with an almost worldwide distribution. The North and South American Committees of the American Ornithologists' Union and the International Ornithological Committee have voted on or before July 2011 to split the American forms into a new species Common Gallinule, and implemented that decision;[3] however, no other committee has voted to change taxonomy yet.

The Common Moorhen lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals and other wetlands. The species is not found in the polar regions, or many tropical rainforests. Elsewhere it is likely the most common rail species, except for the Eurasian Coot or American Coot in some regions.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Moorhen

Location: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Ba%C3%B1os,_Laguna

Settings: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alabang/8642520348/#meta/in/photostream

 

[TF]

Green bee-eater shot with 7D + 100-400mm

 

[nmastoras]

Flamingo during take off! Canon 40D & Sigma 120-400 @ 400mm

 

[serendipidy]

Thank you everyone and lovely images everyone!

Ditto....absolutely gorgeous