My first Kingfisher since February 2020. Took 2000 shots at 20 fps with the ES this morning. The rear view was with the 100-500mm + 1.4xTC, the front at 500mm and upscaled 1.4x.
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I was about 25-35m away from the Kingfishers yesterday., standing the other side of a wire fence. I judge the quality of a lens and sensor by seeing how well they can capture acceptable images at extreme conditions as most camera-lens combinations give good images when the frame is filled. Here, the female KIngfisher was taken with the bare 100-500mm on the R5 (open beak) and the male with the 1.4xTC on at 700mm. The images are only 540 and 690 pixels high, the very limits of when you can expect any resolution of detail. (Can see from the frame numbers I had taken 1555 shots between them!)
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Taken during the February 18th sleet storm in the Washington, DC area, looking straight off my back deck. It's a juvenile hawk, either a Cooper's Hawk or a Broad-winged Hawk (the Audubon guide shows it could be either and both frequent the area).
Canon R5 with the RF 800 mm f/11, 1/1000 at ISO 3200.
Canon R5 with the RF 800 mm f/11, 1/1000 at ISO 3200.
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Knowing next to nothing about birds in general, I never knew a kingfisher would be so colorful. Or for that matter, colourful.
(When I was a kid my parents had a coffee-table book that bragged on the dust jacket about its "colour" pictures; I figured it must mean especially vivid color. Years later I figured out the whole bit about being divided by a common language.)
(When I was a kid my parents had a coffee-table book that bragged on the dust jacket about its "colour" pictures; I figured it must mean especially vivid color. Years later I figured out the whole bit about being divided by a common language.)
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I carefully crop the images to be close to superposable for the static objects and then just upload to gifmaker.me
Thanks
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I have only once before seen a Goldcrest, Europe's smallest and one of its most secretive birds. On Thursday, there was a pair, a female with just a yellow crest and a male with some orange on his punk hairdo, deeply hidden in twigs, and my wife spotted them. Somehow I got some shots - I hadn’t realised there were two different birds or their sexes until I processed the photos. Not the best, but they show the crests and the dumpy nature of these tiny birds. The R5/100-500mm was able to focus using centre spot despite the great difficulties of obscuring twigs.
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Awesome Alan ,first look like ball with eyes 
Havent yet seen any goldcrest this spring. i hope some survived ,winters are hard to them.
Those been so far too fast for me to get good picture. wont help they like dark fir forests.
Havent yet seen any goldcrest this spring. i hope some survived ,winters are hard to them.
Those been so far too fast for me to get good picture. wont help they like dark fir forests.
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trulandphoto
Upstate NY photographer and retired atorney
10 year old thread. Nice. Here's a female Kestrel (I think). RP and RF 600mm.
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I went through some old Winter bird folders to get rid of the many photos not needed, and discovered a batch that I forgot to check out and grade. So I'll post some more images from my backyard view (all with R5 & RF 100-500)
House Finch:
Carolina Wren:
House Finch:
White throated sparrow:
House Finch:
Carolina Wren:
House Finch:
White throated sparrow:
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