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A juvenile White Tailed Kite was fairly obliging about posing for me and even gave me a few stretches.
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R5 600 II w/1.4X 1/3200 : f/9 : ISO 1000
I really like this one!
 
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I took a trip up to the Sax Zim Bog, in northern Minnesota last week. Obviously you go for the owls and everything else is a bonus. In 3 1/2 days we saw one owl, a Northern Hawk Owl, who wasn't very cooperative either. No Great Grays!!! There were so many people up there too, I'm guessing that had a lot to do with it. Still a great trip regardless, multiple Black-billed Magpies, 2 Sharp-tailed Grouse, 1 Boreal Chickadee (all 3 were lifers) and a ton of winter finches!

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Black-billed Magpie (adult-winter) 100.jpgBoreal Chickadee (adult-winter) 100.jpgBoreal Chickadee (adult-winter) 101.jpgCanada Jay (adult-winter) 108.jpgCanada Jay (adult-winter) 112.jpgEvening Grosbeak (female-winter) 101.jpgEvening Grosbeak (female-winter) 107.jpgEvening Grosbeak (male-winter) 100.jpgEvening Grosbeak (male-winter) 104.jpg
 
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The morning we saw the grouse, it was -24 degrees F and we stood in the road for 1.5 hours waiting for it to do something, while it was in the tree. We were finally rewarded when it went down to the ground, but it was damn cold!!!

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Pine Grosbeak (female-winter) 100.jpgPine Grosbeak (female-winter) 101.jpgPine Grosbeak (male-winter) 100.jpgPine Grosbeak (male-winter) 101.jpgPine Grosbeak (male-winter) 105.jpgPine Grosbeak (male-winter) 113.jpgSharp-tailed Grouse (adult-winter) 100.jpgSharp-tailed Grouse (adult-winter) 102.jpgSharp-tailed Grouse (adult-winter) 107.jpgSharp-tailed Grouse (adult-winter) 108.jpg
 
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The Longtailed Tits have become active in my garden and I got the first shots of the year. The first is with 800mm f/8 on the R5 early in the afternoon with the sun shining on it. The second was later in the shade where I used 400mm f/4. The tiny bird was about 15m away, and these are small crops. There is some extra fine detail with the 2xTC on the lens but the bare lens is more contrasty, somewhat due to the even lighting that shows up the less fine detail.

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Thanks mate. That is the way I was leaning but was not sure.
They have become very common here thanks to garden feeders. My sunflower seed feeder is attracting lots of finches. In the past few days lots of Goldfinches, Blue and Great Tits, a pair of Bullfinches, many Greenfinches and the odd Chaffinch, Blackcap and Robin. I've rigged up a fat feeder for the Longtailed Tits which has a double cage to keep out squirrels and larger birds. 6 or 7 of them fly in at once (Top, R5+400mm). The Blue and Great Tits perch for just a fraction of a second but the finches and the Longtailed hang around for ages. Bottom are a Great Tit and female Blackcap (R5+100-500mm).309A1586-DxO_longtailed_tits_on_feeder-ssAut.jpg309A1637-DxO_female_blackcap+great_tit_on_feeder-ssAut.jpg
 
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The morning we saw the grouse, it was -24 degrees F and we stood in the road for 1.5 hours waiting for it to do something, while it was in the tree. We were finally rewarded when it went down to the ground, but it was damn cold!!!

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Great shots Jeremy! Beautiful birds and thanks for posting !
Joe
 
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The morning we saw the grouse, it was -24 degrees F and we stood in the road for 1.5 hours waiting for it to do something, while it was in the tree. We were finally rewarded when it went down to the ground, but it was damn cold!!!

Jeremy

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Very nice shots Jmeyer!

I am curious on what type of equipment you used for these ultrasharp pics ! As well if they were taken handheld (exposuretime?!) or using some kind of support? As well type of postprocessing (Lightroom, Photoshop, .....)?
 
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Very nice shots Jmeyer!

I am curious on what type of equipment you used for these ultrasharp pics ! As well if they were taken handheld (exposuretime?!) or using some kind of support? As well type of postprocessing (Lightroom, Photoshop, .....)?

Thank you. I use 7D mkll, EF 600 f4 ll, 1.4xlll, with carbon fiber tripod and gimbal style head. I use an older version of lightroom, I think 5.7 or something and then I run them through Topaz DeNoise.

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