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[stevelee]

These creatures are all over the island, roaming free.
-r

Riley - they are pests (actually on Kauai one can find the wild form)! Yeah, every where and they are actually wild. In the same time we are buying chicken from the stores at very high prices!

I was on Kauai in December and was told that settlers to the island had brought chickens with them. When hurricanes came and destroyed their homes, chickens flew the coop, so to speak. A guide told us they are protected, but it is legal for some ethnicities to eat them, tough as they are. I thought this rooster was particularly handsome:

 

[ISv]

ISV, there are some, perhaps incorrectly, who maintain that Canon RAW processing should be/is the preferred first step. If I recall correctly you're a Nikon shooter and in that case ViewNX2 is the equivalent, except as a past user of it, it is so pathetic so I'm glad I no longer use it. I find DPP to be quite quick/easy but that's probably because I haven't invested the time to be good at ON1 RAW, which I bought last year. So this "new to DPP" feature is welcomed by me.

Another common Blue-winged teal doing her stretch from a few days back.

Jack

Jack, I know nothing about the Canon RAW processing but you are 100% right about ViewNX2, and yes, "pathetic" is the proper word !
Your Blue-winged is really sweet.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Thanks click and ISV

 

[dpc]

Harris's Sparrow...

 

[dpc]

Harris's Sparrow II...

 

[dpc]

Harris's Sparrow III...

 

[lion rock]

Glad to know the story of these chickens.
I shot these on O'ahu.
-r

 

[dpc]

Female Rose-breasted Grosbeak...

 

[dpc]

Red-breasted Nuthatch...

 

[lion rock]

Like the nuthatch.
-r

Red-breasted Nuthatch...

 

[Click]

Nice series, dpc.

 

[jprusa]

Lion rock and dpc , nice pictures!

 

[lion rock]

Thank you jpxrusa.
-r

Lion rock and dpc , nice pictures!

 

[dpc]

Thanks lion rock, jprusa and Click!

 

[ISv]

Nice shots and interesting birds!
BTW compare the chickens shot by stevelee and lion rock - the real wild chicken (as it still exist in South Asia - India particularly) has gray legs and the plumage is exactly as on the photo from stevelee. The domesticated chickens are with yellow legs despite the plumage that could be +/- same as in the wild form. On the Hawaiian islands one can see really wild chicken only on Kauai these days.
I got some interesting shots of otherwise very common bird here - the Common Mina.
First shot is the bird obviously taking a nap - eyelids closed. Birds are not using the eyelids to blink!
Second is with engaged nictitating membrane - it blinks (or just cleaning its eye to see who is the idiot who wake it up .
On the third shot it is already fully alert!
They have a nest just ~6.5 meters/yards from my lanai (I discovered it today!).

 

[lion rock]

ISv,
Great shots.
I'm not sure they're "common," they are more like overwhelming! 8)
-r

Nice shots and interesting birds!
BTW compare the chickens shot by stevelee and lion rock - the real wild chicken (as it still exist in South Asia - India particularly) has gray legs and the plumage is exactly as on the photo from stevelee. The domesticated chickens are with yellow legs despite the plumage that could be +/- same as in the wild form. On the Hawaiian islands one can see really wild chicken only on Kauai these days.
I got some interesting shots of otherwise very common bird here - the Common Mina.
First shot is the bird obviously taking a nap - eyelids closed. Birds are not using the eyelids to blink!
Second is with engaged nictitating membrane - it blinks (or just cleaning its eye to see who is the idiot who wake it up .
On the third shot it is already fully alert!
They have a nest just ~6.5 meters/yards from my lanai (I discovered it today!).

 

[lion rock]

Got this on a nearby (artificial) pond.
-r

 

[ISv]

ISv,
Great shots.
I'm not sure they're "common," they are more like overwhelming! 8)
-r



;D ;D ;D - absolutely! Some (huh, something like hundred or more) are rusting on the lower palms under my lanai and the noise late evening/early (starting at 4-4:30am) morning is terrible (if my wife buy a gun it would be because of them ;D)!

 

[lion rock]

Hahaha ...
As annoying as crows!
-r

ISv,
Great shots.
I'm not sure they're "common," they are more like overwhelming! 8)
-r



;D ;D ;D - absolutely! Some (huh, something like hundred or more) are rusting on the lower palms under my lanai and the noise late evening/early (starting at 4-4:30am) morning is terrible (if my wife buy a gun it would be because of them ;D)!

 

[AlanF]

Hahaha ...
As annoying as crows!
-r

ISv,
Great shots.
I'm not sure they're "common," they are more like overwhelming! 8)
-r



;D ;D ;D - absolutely! Some (huh, something like hundred or more) are rusting on the lower palms under my lanai and the noise late evening/early (starting at 4-4:30am) morning is terrible (if my wife buy a gun it would be because of them ;D)!

They are an absolute pest and drive out native species wherever they go.