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[Jack Douglas]

Yes, nice, stevelee. Everything was once wild ... the chicken is a bird and deserves to be represented on CR!

Jack

 

[Talys]

Steve, what a beautiful rooster Love his colors.

 

[Ryananthony]

A couple shots from today.

 

[stevelee]

Yes, nice, stevelee. Everything was once wild ... the chicken is a bird and deserves to be represented on CR!

Jack

I doubt they will get much space on the bird-in-flight thread, though.

 

[stevelee]

Steve, what a beautiful rooster Love his colors.

Yes. If anything he was even more stunning in person. I just looked back at my Camera RAW settings for the picture, and I didn't do anything to enhance the color. Color balance settings were left on "As Shot." I added a wee bit of vibrance, but that didn't affect the saturated colors on the bird. If anything, I could have cranked up the saturation a bit to make it look like it did in person, but I didn't. All of the color adjustment sliders were left on 0.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Well Steve, that rooster is not too happy with how you represented him then!

Nice shots, talys.

Jack

 

[Jack Douglas]

A sparrow from Haida Gwaii (N W BC) I couldn't ID with my sparrow book. Anyone?

Jack

 

[Click]

A couple shots from today.

Very nice series. I especially like the last picture.

 

[Click]

A sparrow from Haida Gwaii (N W BC) I couldn't ID with my sparrow book. Anyone?

Jack

Nice picture, Jack.

STBY for the ID.

 

[DJL329]

A sparrow from Haida Gwaii (N W BC) I couldn't ID with my sparrow book. Anyone?

Jack

Nice picture, Jack.

STBY for the ID.

Looks like a Song Sparrow.

 

[Click]

Looks like a Song Sparrow.

I totally agree

 

[scyrene]

scyrene, V nice and good to see some shots from you again.

Jack

Thanks

Eastern Medowlark from last November, Joe Overstreet road Florida
_DIV5288 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

Fabulous!

 

[Jack Douglas]

Thanks, now I see where you're coming from, having just clarified that there are groups to the north west that are darker and don't display the typical marks of the ones I see here. Reading more about this was illuminating.

Jack

 

[Monte]

A few from my yard.

 

[Click]

Very nice series, Monte.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Very nice series, Monte.

V nice. Isn't it nice when we don't always have to travel to see these guys!

Jack

 

[scyrene]

A couple more with the kingfisher. I've never had close contact with this species, so although it's a cliché, it was a very rewarding experience.

5DS, 700mm.

 

[Click]

Nice pictures, scyrene.

 

[scyrene]

A few from my yard.

How do they respond to the flash? Unperturbed, or do they fly away?

 

[Monte]

A few from my yard.

How do they respond to the flash? Unperturbed, or do they fly away?

They don’t seem to mind. They never really fly away, sometimes they will do a little flap but that’s about it.
They are pretty tame and used to us being 15-20’ away. I have the feeders at 15’ and 40’ from my front window so they see us all day. They will feed on the ground with our chocolate lab laying 4’ away. I’ve had some land on my lens while I’m standing with it and one time a chickadee landed inside the hood.
Most of thee were taken with a 7Dkmmii, 2x extender, 400 f2.8IS mki and a better beamer from 15-20’ away.