Post your best bird shots!

[Kayaker72]

Great pics Bill. I especially like the two of the GBH.

[neuroanatomist]

A yellow warbler I ran across yesterday afternoon:



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[Jon Ruyle]

I really like that one, John. With "only" 400mm, you must have managed to get pretty close.

[Bill W]

Excellent John....not only close, but quick. They don

[neuroanatomist]

Thanks, Jon and Bill! It was quite close - the shot is cropped, but only to the extent necessary to convert from landscape to portrait (you're right, Bill - it was gone before I could rotate the camera).

[neuroanatomist]

They don't sit still for too long.

Unlike the warbler on the previous page, it seems that owlets sit in the same place for hours. Here's a great horned owlet I ran across today (there's a shy sibling tucked down to the left). Unlike your adventure, Bill, to find these 'kids' I didn't have to wade or canoe through a swamp...just take a relaxing stroll along a nice, pleasant path through a local cemetery...



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[Bill W]

John....nice capture of the owlet(s). Leisurely walk...you know John, I have a few words for you, but this is a family site. []


With the wx warming, I'm now lathered up in insect repellent to ward off blackflies (a.k.a. NH state bird), gnats, mosquitoes, and the *%#@ ticks.


By any chance is it the Mt. Auburn cemetery? I've been meaning to get down there, but I'm too lazy to drive +/- hour when I drive only +/- 15 minutes for the 2 GHO sites....but I understand it's a great birding site.


The "kids" will become more animated as they mature.....keep on going back for in just a short time they'll become branchers (roaming and stretching their muscles)....lots of action shots. Also keep an eye out for the adults....they're not too far away and very protective.

[neuroanatomist]

Thanks, Bill! Correct - Mt. Auburn Cemetery. It was my first time visiting there, it's a beautiful location. I'd also heard it was great for birding, but yesterday...not especially. Besides the GHO, all I ran across (other than the very abundant common grackles andred-winged blackbirds) were a couple of grey catbirds and an oriole. There is a stone tower there with an open platform on top that has me wanting to take a wide pano shot of the view of Boston. I know it's supposed to be a haven for warblers, but I saw none (the shot of the yellow warbler was from Plum Island the day before). I took my opportunities to get outside the past couple of days, since the forecast is for rain starting Sunday and lasting through the week. []


I'll definitely be stopping by Mt. Auburn again, though - it's just a short detour for me on my usual route home from work. If you do decide to make the trip down, let me know - it would be great to meet up in person!


--John

[Bill W]

John.....you should have given me a holler you were going to PI....it

[Joel Eade]

I have really enjoyed the Owls that you guys have been posting, really interesting to see and nice photographic work. Here's a backyard favorite from this morning


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