Post your best bird shots!

[M_Six]

The lens is awesome. And the 6D allows very large crops. Much more so than the 7D, I think.

[DavidEccleston]

All my dogsled shots were 70-300L as well. It's fantastic, easily recommended unless you need the f/2.8.

[Dave Throgmartin]

Joel,

I have a bird book for my local area called "Birds of Illinois Field Guide" by Stan Tekiela. It is a great resource for me to identify birds. Mr. Tekiela is also a nature photographer and does a great job, but even a lot of his pictures fall a fair deal short of yours. I don't know how lucrative the bird book business is, but your images would certainly appear to quality.

This is the link for his book: http://www.amazon.com/Birds-Illinois.../dp/1885061749

Dave

[thekingb]

A first for me. Tricolored Heron. 7D and EF 70-300L.

[thekingb]

Well it certainly wasn't a landscape day. White ground, grey skies.... still felt a need to escape to the outdoors with a camera hoping to find something. Saw some birds flitting around and gave it a go. Now I can see that I'll be making a trip to the bookstore so I can start figuring out what they all are!

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Nice snowy pics! The first is a nuthatch. Second is a black capped chickadee with a nuthatch coming in for a landing. The third is a waxwing.

[Dave Throgmartin]

thekingb may agree with me, but when I saw the request and could identify the birds I thought... man, I spend too much time taking pictures of birds at a feeder! LOL!

Nice pics by the way.

Dave

[thekingb]

thekingb may agree with me, but when I saw the request and could identify the birds I thought... man, I spend too much time taking pictures of birds at a feeder! LOL!

So true! My iBird Midwest iPhone app and I have logged some serious time together.

[Joel Eade]

Joel,

I have a bird book for my local area called "Birds of Illinois Field Guide" by Stan Tekiela. It is a great resource for me to identify birds. Mr. Tekiela is also a photographer and does a great job, but even a lot of his pictures fall a fair deal short of yours. I don't know how lucrative the bird book business is, but your images would certainly appear to quality.

This is the link for his book: http://www.amazon.com/Birds-Illinois.../dp/1885061749

Dave

Thanks for the kind words Dave. I know nothing about the book business either but I think it would be fun to create one

[Dave Throgmartin]

European starlings recently returned to our bird feeder and here are a couple poses. Both are at 250mm and f/8.

First, looking to the side.


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Second, looking right at me.


2012_12_30_2052_upd by dthrog00, on Flickr

Thanks for viewing.

Dave

[ahab1372]

A first for me. Tricolored Heron. 7D and EF 70-300L.

I like it, I hope I'll see one when I go to Florida. I'm getting very used to the white egrets around here.
Now if these birds could just choose their background a bit better sometimes ...