Post your best bird shots!

[Joel Eade]

A couple from me:

Both with the 5DIII 70-200 II @ 200 mm, 1/200, f/4, ISO 200

Thanks for viewing...Brant

Love that first one....love the mood, nice reflection and subtle background, great details in the whites....well done!!

[Joel Eade]

You might guess it's snowing today in central Ky....makes for a different twist on the images....

[Joel Eade]

Here's one I have been trying to get for about 4 years.

I have seen this guy from a distance in the woods many times but have never seen him on one of my perches until today....the fabled Yellow Bellied Sapsucker.

This is a big milestone for me as it completes my image collection of all the Woodpeckers that typically inhabit Kentucky.

A very good start to 2016



7D MKII
500mm f/4L IS USM I
ISO 1000
1/200
f/8

[Bill W]

Nice capture and congrats Joel on completing your WP collection.....6? I got my YBS last winter....and I've only seen it once this winter....he's always on the suet this winter.
BTW....had a Pileated WP last week...pretty early for us.....I usually see them in our backwoods mid March to April. Unusual winter; very dry and above average temps so far.

[Joel Eade]

Thanks Bill.

The Pileated's live here year round and the last 3 or 4 seasons they have been regular visitors and not too hard to image.

Yes ...the six Woodpecker species include Downy, Hairy, Red Headed, Red Bellied, Yellow Bellied Sapsucker and Pileated.

Although technically the Pileated and the Sapsucker are both a different genus than the other woodpeckers.

And then there is the Northern Flicker ... looks like a woodpecker and behaves like one too. Should it be included? ( I have that image as well)

[Busted Knuckles]

So Stuart I and went midday, the next day Stuart went in the early a.m. and clearly better ligtht, Kayaker(Brant) and went yesterday relatively early - which if you can get there early midweek I would it would be gang busters.

Here are just a couple of the easy ones. Still have several more but I thought these some of the better / more fun ones.

Two Spoons and Snowy by mbarrett5076, on Flickr

Reddish Having B-fast by mbarrett5076, on Flickr


Tern Turning by mbarrett5076, on Flickr


Tern Diving1 by mbarrett5076, on Flickr

Tern Diving2 by mbarrett5076, on Flickr

Tern Diving3 by mbarrett5076, on Flickr

Tern Diving4 by mbarrett5076, on Flickr

Tern Diving5 by mbarrett5076, on Flickr

[Joel Eade]

Hairy Woodpecker



7D MKII
500mm
ISO 200
f/4.0
1/125
1 Einstein strobe set to -8f

[ddt0725]

Wow, Joel! That is a fantastic capture of a beautiful bird!!

[Joel Eade]

Wow, Joel! That is a fantastic capture of a beautiful bird!!

Thank you!

[Busted Knuckles]

About a dozen frames pano.

So follow the link - I did -0- post processing on this so the highlights are hot, etc. My goal is to provide some insight into the fun birders can have at the Merritt Island Bird Refuge.

Quick Bird Pano by mbarrett5076, on Flickr