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Very nice pictures, josephandrews222.

 

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Cool. Nicely done, Alan.

 

[Bert63]

Finally got close enough to some Surf Scoters (a favorite of mine) to get a somewhat decent picture. These guys are awesome.

 

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Nice shots, Bert.

 

[josephandrews222]

backyard birding this morning (within a half-hour)...



...all but one are bird 'portraits'; one BIF

 

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Nice pictures, josephandrews.

 

[Bert63]

Meet Tony. Isn’t he gorgeous? Best Hawk photo I’ve ever taken..

 

[Bert63]

R5 and the 100-400. He was Very cooperative.

 

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Great shots, Bert.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Meet Tony. Isn’t he gorgeous? Best Hawk photo I’ve ever taken..

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Exciting experience - I can relate to that! Very nice.

Jack

 

[josephandrews222]

After video-chatting with youngest daughter tonight, it turns out that this one (black-capped chickadee) is one of her favorites.

Makes my day.

Collected these about 7 hours after this morning's post.

Thanks for letting me share...

 

[ISv]

Love the bird, but I hope he eats pigeons and not songbirds.

When I'm really hungry... ! Also just see the answer from bhf3737 - officially the sparrows are "kind of" song birds. Anyway - let's the nature go it's own way, our wishes are irrelevant (and many times not actually adequate)!

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi ISv.
I think they call that the circle of life, we should not interfere lest we cause more issues than we solve!

Cheers, Graham.

When I'm really hungry... ! Also just see the answer from bhf3737 - officially the sparrows are "kind of" song birds. Anyway - let's the nature go it's own way, our wishes are irrelevant (and many times not actually adequate)!

 

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Nice shots, josephandrews222. I especially like the last picture.

 

[Jack Douglas]

When I'm really hungry... ! Also just see the answer from bhf3737 - officially the sparrows are "kind of" song birds. Anyway - let's the nature go it's own way, our wishes are irrelevant (and many times not actually adequate)!

Of course, here we have the Song Sparrow and it really does sing! And we have the "English" sparrow and well, let's just say it's not highly favoured and in my opinion doesn't sing but rather emits the most obnoxious sound. In the long ago my Budgie quickly learned that sound! I'll add my blessing to any of natures predators that find them tasty.

Jack

 

[Bert63]

With the weather we had a few weeks ago, many birds from the west were blown into the Midwest and even further into the East. Here in Wisconsin, there have been several reports of Spotted Towhees, one of them only 40 minutes from me. Today I finally had time to get out, walk around and try to find him. I did find him and it was a life bird! He was hanging around a "late" female Eastern Towhee. 7D mkll / EF600 f4 ll / 1.4x lll.

Jeremy

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I love these guys - we have them living in the back hedge. Love to watch them dance and scratch in the gardens.

 

[Bert63]

Some from the last week or so.

One thing of note - the Flicker photos were taken at near dark - I was troubleshooting my AF issue and I wasn’t expediting to see anything worthwhile. Of course, this beauty is just sitting there..

Do I ever see these guys sitting in my tree when the light is good? Of course not.

I cranked the ISO and took a few and they came out remarkably good I think - 6400 on the R5 is doable it seems.

 

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Beautiful series, Bert.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Some from the last week or so.

One thing of note - the Flicker photos were taken at near dark - I was troubleshooting my AF issue and I wasn’t expediting to see anything worthwhile. Of course, this beauty is just sitting there..

Do I ever see these guys sitting in my tree when the light is good? Of course not.

I cranked the ISO and took a few and they came out remarkably good I think - 6400 on the R5 is doable it seems.

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I assume there is not much cropping on the Flicker because the noise looks very good, I'm impressed.

Jack

 

[Bert63]

I assume there is not much cropping on the Flicker because the noise looks very good, I'm impressed.

Jack

Actually I took a 3840 X 2160 piece out of the original 8210 x 5464 image, so pretty significant, but there was no “zooming” so to speak.

I thought it developed well. I never expected it to be this clean given the conditions - it was practically dark.