Show your Bird Portraits
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Thanks, Cog.Cog said:Nice close-ups, serendipidy! Where do you find them?serendipidy said:
I don't find them, they find me
I live next to a drainage ditch/canal that empties into a brackish lake and has fish, mostly tilapia. Several varieties of waterfowl live around the canal including ducks, coots, moorhens and the herons.
About 5 years ago, while feeding bread to the waterfowl and fish, this one heron (we named him Harry on Canon Rumors) found out that he could easily catch fish that were attracted to the bread I threw. Thereafter, everyday for several years, he would land on my chainlink fence outside my window and wait for hours for me to come out and help him catch fish for lunch and dinner. If I didn't come out quickly enough, he learned that by loudly and persistently squawking outside my dining room window, I would appear. Harry has been gone for several years now, but has been replaced by 2-3 adults and one juvenile BCN Heron (perhaps relatives of Harry) who all have learned how to get easy meals. They wait intermittently all day for me to fish with them. They get fish and I get photos ;D.
My street crosses the canal via a little concrete bridge. The herons are territorial, with each adult owning one side of the bridge. That is where I stand to throw the bread and I have to run back and forth to help each heron. They will often land on the concrete bridge wall and approach to within 3 feet of where I am standing if I pretend to ignore them. If one crosses the line into the other's spot, a chase ensues which offers a chance for me to practice my BIF skills.
Here are 2 shots taken yesterday (from inside my dining room) of the heron sitting on my chainlink fence about 8 yards away from my window.
BCN Heron outside my window by Eric Johnson, on Flickr
BCN Heron outside my window by Eric Johnson, on FlickrCheers,
Eric
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Eric, you'd better pray they don't start attacking you like some birds I read about in Australia!
Jack
Jack
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A trio of blue jays have been stopping by my yard daily for thawed water from the birdbath and to see if I've left any peanuts around. Shot these from from my dining room, using a rubber hood to try to minimize reflections from the window.
I've also been playing around with remote shooting w/ Canon Connect app and my 24-70 f/4. It's hard to know when the jays will be around, but I'm hoping to get some wide-angle closeups next time.
I've also been playing around with remote shooting w/ Canon Connect app and my 24-70 f/4. It's hard to know when the jays will be around, but I'm hoping to get some wide-angle closeups next time.
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AlanF said:
Lol ;D ;D ;D
After seeing the Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Birds", that has always been a concern
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There are discussions in other threads about zooming with your feet and others about zooms vs primes. But, this short-eared owl of 440x200 pixels was 120 inaccessible metres away yesterday and needed every mm of 800 prime. Nothing marvellous but makes an acceptable small print for my annual album.
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