Show your Bird Portraits
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WOW! I didn't realize I'm so back following the forum! Spent a lot of time watching beautiful photos to get up to the current page!
The reason for this: just busy and in the rare trips to shoot I didn't get anything interesting.
Yesterday at the end of ~2h walk I finally got +/- decent photos of fledgling Scaly-breasted Munia. In my next post I will try to show why it is that interesting.
"I can't swim and it looks dirty. No going there!!!"
"But I can get cooled different way - from behind! WHAT?!"
"Well, not effective but I'm not going there anyway. Don't push me!!!"
The reason for this: just busy and in the rare trips to shoot I didn't get anything interesting.
Yesterday at the end of ~2h walk I finally got +/- decent photos of fledgling Scaly-breasted Munia. In my next post I will try to show why it is that interesting.
"I can't swim and it looks dirty. No going there!!!"
"But I can get cooled different way - from behind! WHAT?!"
"Well, not effective but I'm not going there anyway. Don't push me!!!"
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Well - not so far ago I saw a photo of "African Silver bill" taken on Oahu (posted on eBird) that was actually a fledgling of Scaly Breasted Munia. It wasn't first time and I decided to show some differences in case someone from this forum is going to visit Hawaii anytime soon (or later?!).
Lets start whit the African Silver-bill" young adult (adults are easy, very easy to ID!
Adult Scaly-breasted Munia
and the Chestnut Munia
With the fledglings it's much more complicated and in many cases how you will see the colors depends on the light.
The African Silver Bill looks clear (or I may not got a look at very young birds!).
The Scaly-breasted Munia is discernible by the black bill (but you always can get some reflection from the sky!)
The Chestnut Munia has from very dark gray to gray with blue tint bill. Be very careful about the light!
And to make the problem deeper - the Chestnut Munia is very variable in the transition from fledgling to adult. I'm posting just one variant but they are many!
Lets start whit the African Silver-bill" young adult (adults are easy, very easy to ID!
Adult Scaly-breasted Munia
and the Chestnut Munia
With the fledglings it's much more complicated and in many cases how you will see the colors depends on the light.
The African Silver Bill looks clear (or I may not got a look at very young birds!).
The Scaly-breasted Munia is discernible by the black bill (but you always can get some reflection from the sky!)
The Chestnut Munia has from very dark gray to gray with blue tint bill. Be very careful about the light!
And to make the problem deeper - the Chestnut Munia is very variable in the transition from fledgling to adult. I'm posting just one variant but they are many!
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Thanks Alan but I probably didn't express myself properly - only the fledgling of the Scaly-breasted Munia is from Sunday. All other photos are older (and taken with the zoom). The photo of the African Silver bill is may be the oldest. Later, when I found the right location to look for the Silver bill I got more photos.
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I am not sure I would have been able to recognise a fledgling Scaly Breasted Munia. I saw an adult and a Red Munia in Mysore 5 years. ago. They were both tiny images, the Scaly using the 5DIII and 300mm f/2.8 II + 2xTC and the Red by my wife with the 100-400mm II on the 7DII, which were too poor to post. But, going back to them and upscaling them 2x and using better software, they are presentable. We have had terrible weather here for the past month and very few birds, so seeing the beautiful images in this thread perks me up and gives an excuse to going back to old ones of mine and reprocessing.
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Looking at the numerous photos of the Mourning Dove (and from rather close distance!) posted by you I'm also feeling jealous
! We have some small number of them here but they usually are very skittish and I still have to get a good photo... Forget the White Throated Sparrow! You can't find it here!
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