Show your Bird Portraits

[Ryananthony]

A couple shots from today. The Eagles below was quite the sight. One had caught a seagull which unfortunately I didn't happen to see. It was in the field eating, surrounded by around 40 other eagles, This is a very very heavy crop of the scene. Every couple minutes, one of the eagles would challenge for it, and they would all shoot up in the air in an fight for the dead bird. They would then settle, and it would continue again a few minutes later.

Interesting to see so many eagles in one place. Where was thjs taken? Alaska?

Terrific series of shots!

Thanks for a kind words everyone! bholliman, all photos were taken just outside of Vancouver, BC.

 

[Cog]

A rare chance to see gulls close enough:

 

[Cog]

Nice Killdeer shot! These little guys don't hold still very often.

Thanks! It's a common sandpiper, but these guys are also very active. Wag their tail all the time.

 

[Mikehit]

I spent a while trying to get some shots of cormorants diving and this was one of the more successful attempts

 

[Mikehit]

and this is one of the better sequences

 

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A rare chance to see gulls close enough:

Lovely light.

 

[Click]

Nice series, Mikehit.

 

[sedwards]

Pushing the iso limits of the old 1Ds mark III
400mm f5.6 + 1.4x extender = 560mm
1/400 , f8 , iso 3200.
That's all i can squeeze out of her lol.
1DS38118 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

 

[Jack Douglas]

Pushing the iso limits of the old 1Ds mark III
400mm f5.6 + 1.4x extender = 560mm
1/400 , f8 , iso 3200.
That's all i can squeeze out of her lol.
1DS38118 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

A very pleasing shot in spite of the noise just beginning to creep in.

Jack

 

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Pushing the iso limits of the old 1Ds mark III
400mm f5.6 + 1.4x extender = 560mm
1/400 , f8 , iso 3200.

Lovely shot, Stuart.

 

[rnl]

1dxmkii, ef 600 f4Lii + 2xiii

 

[rnl]

5dsr ef 600f4ii+2xiii

 

[kodakrome]

1dxmkii, ef 600 f4Lii + 2xiii

Wow...really nice.

 

[IslanderMV]

Close encounter with a Great Blue Heron.

The bird apparently thought I could not see it.
Just happened to notice a strange shape in the grass at a distance. Circled around to get some decent light for a closeup shot.

Not sure how you all feel, but for me, the getting of the shot is as rewarding as the resulting image.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Hey Jeff, that's great. It's the total package, the whole experience, that is addictive so even when I don't succeed it's exciting and only drives me to try harder. I was only minutes ago called by my wife - hey the Pileated woodpecker is here.

I had been doing AFMA and was then called to tend to my daughter's -20C furnace breakdown yesterday and so today grabbing the camera, everything was incorrectly set and I blew a nice sequence starting with this shot. I wouldn't normally have had this AF choice, but with spot servo AF surely this should have turned out - I'm thinking my 1DX2 has issues. Oh, well.

Jack

 

[AlanF]

Jack, what were the settings?

 

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1dxmkii, ef 600 f4Lii + 2xiii

Very nice shot, rnl.

 

[kodakrome]

pelican giving me the stare, and an egret on the move.
6D with 400 5.6L

 

[Jack Douglas]

Jack, what were the settings?

1/500 too slow, F5.6, ISO 2000, tracking 0, acc 1, AFpoint sw 1, case 6, spot AF, AI servo from the photo, focus is on the trees so I guess it wouldn't refocus fast enough??

Jack

 

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pelican giving me the stare, and an egret on the move.
6D with 400 5.6L

Very nice shots. I especially like the second one. Well done.