Show your Bird Portraits

[Don Haines]

experimenting with WiFi triggering today.... I think I have the camera too close!

 

[AlanF]

Very interesting shots Scott. Where were they taken?

 

[Ryananthony]

Hung out in the rain today. Here is a Red-winged blackbird.

1DX_3464 by Ryan Kelly, on Flickr

 

[Click]

Nice. Well done, Ryan.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Folks.
Lots if great shots, sorry I haven't commented on individual shots, time seems to get away (tempts definitely fugit)!
The local Hide where I have started volunteering, this little fellow didn't like the way we did the new handrail, we counterbored the rail and sunk hex headed screws in and then melted candle wax in to stop the water sitting in the hole and rotting the wood.
He sat there for ages digging out the wax whilst I took shot after shot with the flash!

SE0A7187_DxO by Graham Stretch, on Flickr

Cheers, Graham.

 

[Ryananthony]

Nice. Well done, Ryan.

Thank you.

 

[scottkinfw]

Very nice series, Scott. I especially like the second picture.

Thank you Ryan very much.

The skull was from a giraffe kill by a pride of lions. After the hyenas finished the vultures moved in. I was waiting and hoping, for dramatic effect that the vulture would put a talon in the eye socket, like an old western, but that was not to be.

We went to the site twice a day during golden hour to study how things unfolded and take pics.

Scott

 

[Jack Douglas]

Very nice series, Scott. I especially like the second picture.

Thank you Ryan very much.

The skull was from a giraffe kill by a pride of lions. After the hyenas finished the vultures moved in. I was waiting and hoping, for dramatic effect that the vulture would put a talon in the eye socket, like an old western, but that was not to be.

We went to the site twice a day during golden hour to study how things unfolded and take pics.

Scott

Scott is that cropped or did you fill the frame. I thinks it's great but would like just a tad more background around the bird/skull.

Jack

 

[Nat_WA]

experimenting with WiFi triggering today.... I think I have the camera too close!

Hi Don, it's not your camera which is too close, it is the bird that is too big

 

[jprusa]

Eastern Wood-pewee

 

[Click]

Eastern Wood-pewee

I really like this picture. Nicely done.

 

[jprusa]

Eastern Wood-pewee

I really like this picture. Nicely done.

Thanks Click!!

 

[Loswr]

Shot with the 1D X and 600mm f/4L IS II + 1.4xIII.

 

[Click]

Shot with the 1D X and 600mm f/4L IS II + 1.4xIII.

Very nice shot, Neuro.

 

[jprusa]

Shot with the 1D X and 600mm f/4L IS II + 1.4xIII.

Nice Shot Neuro!

 

[IslanderMV]

Wiebe

Took me a bit to identify your grebe - a Great crested grebe ?

Nice shot - location ?

Jeff

 

[AlanF]

Good shot neuro. You should post more here - the best thread in CR.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Good shot neuro. You should post more here - the best thread in CR.

+1 I like the composition.

Jack

 

[Loswr]

Thanks, All!

 

[Nat_WA]

Wiebe

Took me a bit to identify your grebe - a Great crested grebe ?

Nice shot - location ?

Jeff

Hi Jeff, indeed a great crested grebe.
Picture was taken near Giethoorn (Netherlands); the "Venice of the North" in the early (misty) morning around sunrise - before the hordes of mainly Chinese visitors hit the water .
I posted a couple of pictures from the same set earlier in this thread.

Wiebe.