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[Jack Douglas]

Fascinating! The best I could ever do was to get the neighbors dog to accompany me on a walk. Maybe I'll start feeding the ducks this spring at my pond. Not enough humans around here.

Jack

 

[Click]

I'm very happy to see some pictures from Harry. Nice shots serendipidy, keep posting

 

[Northstar]

I hope Harry has a long life cause it could be devastating if not! I imagine he's as close as a pet dog. Just one Harry??

Jack

Hi Jack,

Well, there is another smaller (younger, maybe female) Heron that has been hanging around my house for several months. It's the one Harry chases off if she gets too close or crosses the street to his fishing spot. Harry has the territory across the street and this new arrival (I'll name her Harriet) stays on my side in a tree in my yard. She has watched me fish with Harry and now wants to do it too. When I walk out of my house now, Harriet calls to me (something Harry never does...he's the strong silent type). I have used several loaves of bread with Harriet, but she has not caught one fish with me yet. She also was more afraid but is getting more used to me and bolder. It's funny, but they both now will break up the bread with their beaks and re-arrange the pieces in front of them to entice the fish.

Interesting!

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Jack.
I applaud your attitude towards naming. If the idiot on the local highways dept had felt like you we wouldn't have a road that currently bears a name different from the 1966 O/S map, even after locals including bus service providers and drivers complained! It can only take one image misnamed and a few people less knowledgable to agree and then something gets changed for good.
Far Better to leave it with a question mark for someone knowledgable to identify.

Cheers Graham.

Well your guess may be right. It tends to bother me to not assign a name and then it also bothers me to assign one that I worry is wrong. I know, who cares. Unfortunately that's not the way I was raised.

Anyway here is another shot that is slightly different, barely showing any yellow.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Jon
You post this shot one post after saying the 7D is holding you back? If that is the case this just reinforces the notion that it is not the gear but the photographer that makes the image, it is just a beautiful shot. Well done, I'd be totally chuffed if I could get shots like that!
On the up side I can't even think of blaming my camera when you can produce shots like this. : really got to look at some better glass, wish list is growing! ;D

Cheers Graham.

My new favorite hawk photo! Just made it a couple hours ago at sunset:

Ferruginous Hawk: 7D + 600/4 II, 1/400s f/6.3 @ ISO 400

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi, How did you get him to look straight down the lens. I hope he didn't end up where he was looking or do you have a white tube full of feathers? ;D

Lovely action packed shot. Thanks for posting.

Cheers Graham.

Canon 7D 400mm L f5.6

 

[chauncey]

My egrets and herons are gone for the winter, replaced by these...things.




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[Click]

My egrets and herons are gone for the winter, replaced by these...things.

Very nice shots chauncey. Well done.

 

[Northstar]

My egrets and herons are gone for the winter, replaced by these...things.




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these are quite nice...the detail in the second one is stellar!

 

[J.R.]

Coppersmith Barbet

Beautiful colored bird. Great shot.

Fantastic shot J.R.

+1...absolutely gorgeous! well done.

Thanks a lot guys!

This one here is the Green Barbet!

 

[J.R.]

Great Tit ... a relative of the Chikadees, not as friendly though

 

[steven kessel]

I'm calling this one "Getting the duck outta here." 5Diii, 400DO, ISO 320, f6.3 @ 1/2500, aperture control mode.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Lovely shots, all!

Jack

 

[Click]

This one here is the Green Barbet!

Great Tit ... a relative of the Chikadees, not as friendly though

Great shots J.R. Nicely done.

 

[Click]

I'm calling this one "Getting the duck outta here." 5Diii, 400DO, ISO 320, f6.3 @ 1/2500, aperture control mode.

Beautifull shot. Well done Steven.

 

[Maxaperture]

My egrets and herons are gone for the winter, replaced by these...things.

these are quite nice...the detail in the second one is stellar!

Stunning, and yes, stellar detail.

 

[Maxaperture]

Thanks a lot guys!

This one here is the Green Barbet!

Wow!!
Is that wild, do you live where you can get shots of these guys in the wild?
Awesome.
I'm not jealous, I'm not jealous, OK, I'm jealous.....

 

[Maxaperture]

European Blackbird, shot near where I live in London, UK.

 

[Click]

European Blackbird, shot near where I live in London, UK.

Awesome. I really like this picture. Well done Maxaperture.

 

[Don Haines]

Raven in the setting sun.... and a zoom in of the reflection in the eye...