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[ISv]

A young Great Horned Owl(previously posted in a tree) who decided to leave the nest early was doing its best turkey impersonation to fend off an impending capture for relocation.

R5 RF600 f/4L IS 1/640 : f/8 : ISO 320

And about a week later, climbing/hopping up a different tree to join a sibling returned by a rescue outfit.

R5 RF600 f/4L IS w/1.4x 1/100 : f/6.3 : ISO 1000

My is for the first photo off course!

 

[ISv]

Why can't we have birds like your over here! Luck favours the well-prepared camera.

If you have the time to "prepare the camera"!

 

[ISv]

Your comment resembles what Jack D. posted some years ago: "Just imagine what we will do with the birds that ISv has!" - I don't remember the exact wording but the content is the same. My answer (in my mind - I didn't posted it!) was " you will do as good as with the available birds: some times very good, sometimes not that much and sometimes straight bad! If you are smart enough you will post only the good, if you are like me you will post what you have...

 

[AlanF]

Your comment resembles what Jack D. posted some years ago: "Just imagine what we will do with the birds that ISv has!" - I don't remember the exact wording but the content is the same. My answer (in my mind - I didn't posted it!) was " you will do as good as with the available birds: some times very good, sometimes not that much and sometimes straight bad! If you are smart enough you will post only the good, if you are like me you will post what you have...

The thrust of my comment is quite different - I just want to see and hear them, the photos are a bonus.

 

[AlanF]

If you have the time to "prepare the camera"!

It was a parody of Louis Pasteur's "Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés". (In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind).

 

[Click]

Yesterday: botanical garden. Didn't expect any interesting bird. Looking for a better angle to shoot some Abutilon I almost crashed into family of Gray Francolin! I wouldn't post the photo if not the story! Nearly ~5 meters from me two birds were spooked and did fly in opposite directions. I concentrated on the one that made short fly (~5 meters?) and made an U-turn with false attack!!! At that moment I was sure there are chicks around! Look at the beautiful background and a bird almost exceeding the frame - didn't have any better opportunity!
In my anger I did shoot also an innocent Red-whiskered Bulbul!

Very nice shots, ISv. I especially like the second one. Well done, Sir!

 

[AlanF]

It's nest building time for Coots and Blackheaded Gulls (R5/800mm).

 

[AlanF]

I don't know what was going on here. Two Gulls were cavorting, one with an dark object that it would periodically drop, then fly and land with. The other noisily joining in.

 

[Click]

I really like your shots, Alan. Well done.

 

[MSH411]

Buff-Throated Saltator

 

[MSH411]

Rufous-winged Woodpecker

 

[ISO64]

Some more photos from Costa Rica. Last two are of a Little Blue Heron, that goes through a remarkable transformation from almost pure white as a juvenile to deep grey slate/chestnut red as an adult.

 

[ISv]

It was a parody of Louis Pasteur's "Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés". (In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind).

Well, in this case I have to say "Luck favours the people who go to Hawaii (as you were intending last year but changed your mind)!

 

[ISv]

Some more photos from Costa Rica. Last two are of a Little Blue Heron, that goes through a remarkable transformation from almost pure white as a juvenile to deep grey slate/chestnut red as an adult.View attachment 216335View attachment 216336View attachment 216337View attachment 216338View attachment 216339

My favorite is the photo of the Southern Lapwing! What happen with the photo of the White Ibis - you forget to denoise it?

 

[ISv]

Very nice shots, ISv. I especially like the second one. Well done, Sir!

Thanks Click! I don't like the photo of the Francolin: the background is total mess it looks like a trash-site. The bird is too close for 500mm lens and is not sharp enough to me (here I wonder if the hot day and the bird on the ground is not the reason. On other hand I got sharper photos of the Small Indian mongoose, just ~an hour later, also on the ground. So, most probably the reason is the guy behind the camera - I will pretend it wasn't me).

 

[dpc]

Northern flicker (yellow-shafted form)...

 

[AlanF]

Well, in this case I have to say "Luck favours the people who go to Hawaii (as you were intending last year but changed your mind)!

Pasteur was making a complimentary comment and so was I.

 

[josephandrews222]

M6MkII mated to adapted 100-400II + 1.4XIII (906mm effective focal length); Starling

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[MSH411]

The third image is fantastic!

 

[Click]

+1 Well done, josephandrews222.