Post your best bird shots!

Male Downy Woodpecker
1DX
500mm
ISO 3200
f/7.1
1/1600

http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....08774192-4.jpg

Male Northern Cardinal
1DX
500mm
iso 2000
f/5
1/1600
http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....31334807-4.jpg

Joel, if you didn't post pictures of your setup in the past, I would assume you were shooting professionally prepared taxidermy in front of a backdrop in a studio. I just got around to setting feeders up at my new house. Maybe I will start shooting birds again.

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Originally Posted by dsiegel5151

Joel, if you didn't post pictures of your setup in the past, I would assume you were shooting professionally prepared taxidermy in front of a backdrop in a studio. I just got around to setting feeders up at my new house. Maybe I will start shooting birds again.

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Thanks, I do take special care to place my perches so that the background is clean. I like that "studio" look.

Female Northern Cardinal
1DX
500mm
ISO 3200
f/5
1/640
http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....75445650-4.jpg

Same bird and same EXIF data, different perch.

http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....66962797-4.jpg

Something a little different....European Starling

1DX
500mm
ISO 1600
f/6.3
1/800
http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....30115133-4.jpg

Snow brings the birds to the feeders in large numbers....all the usual suspects are here today.

http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....86697569-5.jpg

A few from today:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2840/1...0d582d8e_z.jpg
Male Cardinal-7197 by westmichigan, on Flickr

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3800/1...90861b7a_z.jpg
Female Cardinal-6992 by westmichigan, on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5549/1...83235e11_z.jpg
Blue Jay-7271 by westmichigan, on Flickr

Beautiful Pat. The falling snow makes it so nice.