Show your Bird Portraits

[Isaac Grant]

Want to keep the fall themes going. Sparrows as well. Here is a Song Sparrow photographed in Staten Island at one of my favorite sparrow spots. Canon 7d2 and 150-600 C.

600mm, F8, ISO 640, SS 1/800
Song Sparrow by Isaac Grant, on Flickr

 

[MJ]

600 Pages in this thread so far?!

That's pretty wild!

 

[Jack Douglas]

yavuz, lovely shot!

Jack

 

[Click]

Want to keep the fall themes going. Sparrows as well. Here is a Song Sparrow photographed in Staten Island at one of my favorite sparrow spots. Canon 7d2 and 150-600 C.

600mm, F8, ISO 640, SS 1/800

Very nice picture, Isaac.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Hoping for better (close shots) since he's been cautiously coming around - pretty finch.

Jack

 

[Click]

Nice one, Jack.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Thanks click, when a "new" bird shows up, since there aren't many it's like a shot of adrenaline! Trouble is, sometimes they never return within the time frame I devote to watching for them!!

This guy ventured to my observatory feeder and was standing crunching seeds 8" from my nose when a Downy landed on the edge and made aggressive gestures at him for a couple seconds frightening him away (I wish I could have gotten a shot through the one way mirror onto the feeder because it was so cute).

Recently, I've learned a lot more about what magpies eat, including seeds and berries and well ....... everything really!

Jack

 

[Jack Douglas]

oops - "this guy" referred to the finch. The magpies won't venture that close.

Jack

 

[Jack Douglas]

Another Pileated woodpecker shot, sorry. :-[ I can't help it, when they show up I keep pulling the trigger. Does this background work - honestly? Anyone, why, why not.

Jack

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Jack.
Lovely shot of the pileated woodpecker, the background is fine until you get to the bright splodge lower left, that does spoil the background a bit, but then the subject is so very good who saw the background until you asked! ;D

Cheers, Graham.

Edit, I obviously didn't as I missed another bright spot!
It is only when we control all aspects of the shot that we get to choose the background, when you control the woodpecker with any certainty I'd like you to teach me.

 

[Cog]

Canon 7D MII + EF 400mm

 

[Click]

Nice series, Cog.

 

[lion rock]

Jack,
You continue to amaze!

COG.,
Nicely shot.
-r

 

[AlanF]

G3 X with me.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Valvebounce, thanks for that. Now that it's a new day and I see it as posted, what I thought might be positive is too distracting. Initially in my mind I thought it might be helping the WP to stand out but he was not that well lit. We are now having a rather low arc to the sun and my ideas for shots from the summer are now proving to be unworkable. Buying a second 600EX-RT used tomorrow for shooting during the deepest part of winter - brrr - winter in Canada just around the corner.

Some models just never cooperate but if you're around them enough at least they lose some of their shyness!

Jack

 

[yavuz]

300 2.8 2XTC III

 

[Click]

Excellent shot, yavuz.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Jack.
I still think it is a very good picture, the woody looks well enough lit to me and I'd love to get that shot.

Cheers, Graham.

Valvebounce, thanks for that. Now that it's a new day and I see it as posted, what I thought might be positive is too distracting. Initially in my mind I thought it might be helping the WP to stand out but he was not that well lit. We are now having a rather low arc to the sun and my ideas for shots from the summer are now proving to be unworkable. Buying a second 600EX-RT used tomorrow for shooting during the deepest part of winter - brrr - winter in Canada just around the corner.

Some models just never cooperate but if you're around them enough at least they lose some of their shyness!

Jack

 

[Al Chemist]

A Canadian Goose that just wasn't afraid of me!

 

[Click]

Nicely done, Al Chemist.