Show your Bird Portraits

[lion rock]

Recently posters, scottkinfw, applecider, AlanF, josephandrews222, 7DmkI, ISv, made some really extraordinary posts of various birds.
Sorry I couldn't comment to individual poster separately.
Fantastic photos.
-r

 

[Jack Douglas]

Recently posters, scottkinfw, applecider, AlanF, josephandrews222, 7DmkI, ISv, made some really extraordinary posts of various birds.
Sorry I couldn't comment to individual poster separately.
Fantastic photos.
-r

+1 Jack

 

[scottkinfw]

Cedar waxwing with a dragonfly in mouth.

I'm trying to promote a local photo competition with animals feeding to be Called the "Disney circle of life award". The award can be given to multiple recipients and is influenced by identification of predator and prey, as well as the usual photographic criteria.

Great Shot!

 

[scottkinfw]

Recently posters, scottkinfw, applecider, AlanF, josephandrews222, 7DmkI, ISv, made some really extraordinary posts of various birds.
Sorry I couldn't comment to individual poster separately.
Fantastic photos.
-r

Thank you Lion rock

 

[ISv]

Very nice series, scottkinfw.

+1!

 

[ISv]

Cedar waxwing with a dragonfly in mouth.

I'm trying to promote a local photo competition with animals feeding to be Called the "Disney circle of life award". The award can be given to multiple recipients and is influenced by identification of predator and prey, as well as the usual photographic criteria.

Excellent shot applecider!
Concerning your promotion - sometimes you see just legs or/and wings of the insects (prey I hope ) and the identification is practically impossible.

 

[ISv]

I would not normally take shots of captive birds. But, these were from the Raptor Foundation where they are well looked after. I couldn't resist posting these as they look like characters from Japanese woodcuts of Kabuki actors.

Great shots Alan (but I would be surprised if they were not)!
Shooting from reasonable distances/conditions delivers (off course!) the best photo results. Otherwise it's more documentation of the event (not because it doesn't have it's own place in photography!). Well... on other side if one day I succeed to document (no Photoshop!!!) the Loch Ness bastard in reasonable quality pic it will diminish all my other phgotos ;D!!!

 

[applecider]

Cedar waxwing with a dragonfly in mouth.

I'm trying to promote a local photo competition with animals feeding to be Called the "Disney circle of life award". The award can be given to multiple recipients and is influenced by identification of predator and prey, as well as the usual photographic criteria.

Excellent shot applecider!
Concerning your promotion - sometimes you see just legs or/and wings of the insects (prey I hope ) and the identification is practically impossible.

That’s what makes it interesting, but the “rules” are flexible since it is for fun, if an eagle has a catfish with whiskers we don’t push for species ID, catfish is acceptable. Sparrows with larvae worms makes it very interesting.

 

[josephandrews222]

...a brown thrasher with dinner (lunch?) for the youngsters

 

[Click]

...a brown thrasher with dinner (lunch?) for the youngsters

Nice picture.

 

[stevelee]

I took some pictures in a friend's garden Wednesday. I saw just one hummingbird while I was there. I got one shot at rest and one flying away. I didn't have time to change to a fast shutter speed for the latter, but I think it looks more like the bird looked to me than it would have if I had stopped the motion.

 

[AlanF]

Grey heron with small fish, probably a roach, 400mm DO II at 560mm on 5DSR.

 

[Click]

Nice pictures, Alan.

 

[zim]

for a second I thought that was a fishing line! pheeew

 

[KeithBreazeal]

Red Breasted Nuthatch at our backyard pond. Tiny bird, massive crop.
5D Mark IV 100-400 VII ISO 4000 250th f5.0

Backyard Birds Red Breasted Nuthatch 8093 © Keith Breazeal by Keith Breazeal, on Flickr

 

[Click]

Beautiful picture, Keith.

 

[KeithBreazeal]

Beautiful picture, Keith.

Thanks Click

 

[Nat_WA]

Being away three weeks (most of it holiday in Suriname, visiting my daughter who is doing an internship over there), this thread has shown a massive growth
So many contributions of such a high quality - but too little time to acknowledge each and every one of them...
Summary: great work all!! 8)

Going through the pictures I took in Suriname will take some time but I'll post some of it while processing this backlog...!

Wiebe.

 

[Nat_WA]

First one; unique to me - most likely a great Potoo perched in the fork of a tree in Frederiksdorp plantation.
It was keeping half an eye on me but apparently felt I was no threat (the bird being at least 5m / 17ft up in the tree )

Wiebe.

 

[Nat_WA]

And another one of this strange bird...