Show your Bird Portraits

[AlanF]

Peregrine Falcon chicks with mum on a cliff face, at least 60m away so 2xTC on 100-500mm. The shot was from a public regularly used path and the birds are used to humans. They are very well camouflaged against the rock and it needed another birder to point them out patiently to me.

 

[Click]

Very nice shots, Alan.

 

[Click]

Common Loon

 

[AlanF]

Common Loon
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Lovely, Click. On my first summer holiday in Halifax NS, my goal was to snap a Loon, and it should have been but wasn't easy!

 

[Click]

Thanks Alan.

I love that bird, especially when I hear its call. It's beautiful and peaceful.

 

[Maximilian]

My first blackcap:

 

[Maximilian]

A male Western Bluebird foraging for insects amongst the flowers. I never think of these flowers as 'tall' until my subject is half obscured.

Beautiful colors! Lovely!
Well done ERHP!

 

[Jack Douglas]

Now a Common Goose - seems like the birds must fear the virus here in Alberta, at least in my back yard!

But, this goose is my friend.

Jack

 

[Click]

Very nice shot. Well done, Jack.

 

[AlanF]

Last night we were serenaded as usual by a Blackbird, which I located at the top of the tallest tree by our bedroom but not directly visible. I got a shot of him from the garden as the sun was setting, the other side of the bird. He was facing the sun and you can see the red lighting him up. He started serenading us again at 4.30 am, and I got a shot of him 12 hours after the first where he had flipped through 180 deg and was facing the morning sun, with the sun behind me.. His orientation was not random. (R5 at 1000mm).

 

[Dockland]

Canon EOS R5 - Canon EF 600mm f/4
f/4 - 1/1000 - ISO 1250
(the bokeh of this lens is absolutely stunning)

 

[7DmkI]

Female wood duck from today.

 

[Click]

Very nice series. I especially like the last picture. Well done, 7DmkI.

 

[becceric]

Canon EOS R5 - Canon EF 600mm f/4
f/4 - 1/1000 - ISO 1250
(the bokeh of this lens is absolutely stunning)

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Nice work, Dockland. I like the bird, bokh, and the color palatte.

 

[Dockland]

Really don't know the bird, but it recently took a bath I assume (Should've used fill flash on this one)

Canon EOS R5 - Canon EF 600mm f/4 L IS USM III

 

[bhf3737]

Again today I saw this little guy. Now he can jump to a branch outside the nest. He is so curious. He was ignoring the other photographer with a black lens and was posing for me. It seems that he likes white lenses!
Owlet - Great Horned Owl's chick.
R5 + RF 100-500mm.

 

[Click]

I really like your shot. Nicely done, bhf3737.

 

[Click]

Really don't know the bird, but it recently took a bath I assume (Should've used fill flash on this one)

Canon EOS R5 - Canon EF 600mm f/4 L IS USM III

The wet look.

Nice picture, Docland.

 

[Dockland]

The wet look.

Nice picture, Docland.

Thank you Click.
Perhaps it's a woodpecker of some sort

 

[bhf3737]

I really like your shot. Nicely done, bhf3737.

Thanks Click.