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[Click]

Bald Eagle, Hoonah, Alaska, 7D, 70-300L

Great shot. Beautiful picture.

 

[AlanF]

Robin with insects. The robin, who personally endorsed my ballhead tripod, has a nest with a couple of chicks in my garage. He is feeding them with a high protein varied diet.

All 100% crops at 600mm, f/5.6, hand held, iso 640-1250, speeds 1/200 or slower. I got within 3-5 metres of him.

 

[Sharpening Iron]

Love this topic! Awesome eagle shots CT John!

 

[AlanF]

Love this topic! Awesome eagle shots CT John!

Your last one annotated as "loons" looks more like a cormorant, and is certainly not a loon.

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/common_loon/id

 

[DominoDude]

I concede - tripods are useful.

Mighty nice Robin, Alan! Did he come with a quick release-plate? Or do you have to screw him into the ballhead? http://canonrumors.com/forum/Smileys/default/tongue.gif

 

[e7dag]

Harpy Eagle, Belize

 

[steven kessel]

Loons at Cherry Grove.

Well, not really. That's a Neotropic Cormorant, I think. Here's one that I photographed recently.

 

[e7dag]

Toucan, of course

 

[Don Haines]

having a snack in the back yard....

 

[Click]

Very nice shot Don.

 

[Andy_Hodapp]

Canon 5d mkii, 200mm f2.8 ii

Shot at 1/650th of a second, this shot had a lot more motion blur on the bird then I wanted, though it is only really visible on the full res version

 

[Sharpening Iron]

Thanks Alan and Steven, the photo was definitely mislabeled. Sometimes batch processing isn't the best way to label.

 

[AlanF]

Harpy Eagle, Belize

How did you get that close?

 

[Andy_Hodapp]

Shot during sunset on a Canon 5d mkii and 200mm f/2.8 ii in front of my house. Spent 20 minutes creeping up to this guy, and when I finally got close enough he started flying away. Was impressed that I was able to get an in focus shot in harsh lighting with the 5d.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Andy that is impressive. Well, for me with my 6D anyway.

Jack

 

[Synkka]

Currently trying to learn to expose images properly. And i needs to be said i often get strange looks while i am photographing birds. But on this occasion i was fortunate that there was someone walking a cat in the park that took the attention off me...

Australia Wood Duck - Male in foreground

Australian-Wood-Duck by Synkka~, on Flickr

Purple swamphen

Purple-Swamp-Hen by Synkka~, on Flickr

 

[Click]

Lovely shots Synkka.

 

[dpc]

Female mallard skittering across a lagoon.

 

[philam65]

Nice image, dpc. Unusual pose on the Mallard; wonderful range of colors on the hen and the water.

 

[dpc]

Nice image, dpc. Unusual pose on the Mallard; wonderful range of colors on the hen and the water.

Thanks. I was walking along the bank of the lagoon and she was trying to stay away but obviously didn't want to fly off, so she just skittered for thirty metres or so and then settled.