Post your best bird shots!

[Bill W]

Bob....very nice BYBs. I really like the stone perches, especially the dove

[neuroanatomist]

Yesterday afternoon was mostly sunny in New England, and the 55 °F temperature was enticing...but the 20 mph wind with gusts to 35 mph made it a bit of a blustury day. Still, it was the first free aftenoon I've had in quite a while, so I spent it at a nearby GBH rookery (a monopod and IS on the lens helped to counteract the shivering).


"Welcome home, Dear!"


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"Lift"



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Even rarer is to catch this Great Headless Egret.., in flight!

I'll see your Great Headless Egret in flight, and raise you a Great Headless Heron in flight. [:P]



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[Bill W]

John....I'm surprised you only had to use 1/1600 to stop the trees from moving....the winds were howling. Where's your rookery located?


Some distractions while I wait in the swamp for the appearance of an owlet.


Belted Kingfisher


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and a good standby; Mallard


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and finally in this game of headless; are headless snowys wild?


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[thekingb]

7D and EF 70-300L. Note the bug in the feathers!

[ddt0725]

@thekingb - Positively AWESOME shot!!


@Bill W - You make me want to move where I'd have much more variety of birds to photograph! Love the Kingfisher! As far as headless birds go, I have a few that hang out in my backyard! Nice thing about them is they are really cheap to feed!!

[Joel Eade]

Nice shots everyone, afraid I haven't ant headless birds to share but I did some experimenting with an extreme close in set up from about 3-4 feet and this was taken with the 1DMKIII and 70-200mm f/2.8 at 200mm iso 200 f/5.6 1/300 sec and with 430EXII fill flash set to 1/16 power manually





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[Fast Glass]

I really like your Chickadee, nice clean background and composition. But I think it's a little dull. Some levels and tone curve would help a lot.


Here I edited it for you, this time a tried to keep a light hand on the saturation!


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How do ya like it?


Cheers,


John.

[Kayaker72]

Brian....that shot is amazing...and almost a mirror image to Canon's shot for the 70-300L on their webpage.[Y]


Bill and John, great shots and you have me looking up every rookery I can find in the area.


Denise...that one looks a little too real. Nice shot.


Joel....somehow, you improved on your previous shots.....I am still trying to figure out how. [:P]I had no idea chickadees were so colorful.


Now if the rain will just let up, I am headed to a rookery!

[Richard Lane]

Bob, Love the bird shots on the rocks. It

[Richard Lane]

I posted this earlier, but the photo was currently unavailable, so I must of messed up the Flickr Address.


So.., I thought I would try to re-post it again:





Mk IV: 300mm f/2.8L IS + 2X @600mm f/7.1 1/1000sec ISO 800 CPL






Rich