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And my regular walk at the beach park (with the regular birds too - but I try to get better poses
. Relatively good exercise for both - my body and my skills in photography... but on somewhat lazy site ).
. Relatively good exercise for both - my body and my skills in photography... but on somewhat lazy site ).
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Guaiabero (Bolbopsittacus lunulatus) by Paolo Dolina, on Flickr
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/au41AzJPzy8LUjto7
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Yet some more heron pics. I've tried to arrange them a little bit more with focus on the surroundings.
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Thanks, Click. The herons like it, too.
Come over to me and you‘ll find one on that tree about 50% of the time.
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The Heron looks to be in better focus than the surroundings.
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There has been a rare visitor in the last couple of days to a local reservoir, a Pectoral Sandpiper. So, I took out the RF 800/11 and R7 as the birds are on a scrape in the centre. Here are a couple of shots with a lot of pp, as the bird was 42 and then 50m away.
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Many bird watchers discourage photos of nests.
I appreciate "rule breakers" as I'd never know what to look for.
I love the image and your bravery.
I find it weird that the falcon doesn't use twigs or other softer materials than rocks.
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I can fully understand and agree with bird watchers not wanting nests disturbed or added stress levels to the parents.
However this was not the case in this instance. This photo is heavily cropped from 560mm on the R5. Exif data says it was 64 to 84 metres to the focus point and my guess would have been in that range. I was taking photos from a popular public viewing platform on the edge of an old volcanic vent. A lady from a local bird watching group was there and directed me, and others, to where the nest was. I was able to clarify for her records that there were three eggs as she could only make out two.
So I don't consider myself a "rule breaker" or brave.
I hope you enjoyed the photo, it is also the first time I have time seen a falcon nest in real life.
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I fully agree with you about respecting birds on nests and do the same. I had checked the distance on your EXIF and it was reading 74m away, so I had felt reassured and I then did a "like" after that. We have a local Peregrine pair that nest on a ledge not high up on a busy road in the centre of our town and is completely used to having people around. We have another pair in a park that nest on a ledge on a cliff about 80m from a viewing area. In both cases, it's clearly OK to take photos on conservation grounds, and our law on bird protection allows you to take photos from a public footpath for protected birds if you are not obtrusive.
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If I was living in a western country with millions of registered bird watchers I'd completely agree with their concern.
But if you're the only birder in the town/city/province/state and illegal mining/quarrying/agriculture/etc are a concern for habitat loss then photographing nests is as venial a sin as jaywalking on an unfinished road that 4x4 can only traverse.
BTW my reply is not a call out but reassurance that what you did has my like.
Philippine Trogon (Harpactes ardens) by Paolo Dolina, on Flickr
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Anyone posting an image that clearly broke the laws on protection of birds or any other species or clearly does not respect nature will be banned from CR.If I was living in a western country with millions of registered bird watchers I'd completely agree with their concern.
But if you're the only birder in the town/city/province/state and illegal mining/quarrying/agriculture/etc are a concern for habitat loss then photographing nests is as venial a sin as jaywalking on an unfinished road that 4x4 can only traverse.
BTW my reply is not a call out but reassurance that what you did has my like.
Philippine Trogon (Harpactes ardens) by Paolo Dolina, on Flickr
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