Post your best bird shots!

[Fast Glass]

Great shot Joel! I can tell you didn't use a flash, sometimes in difused lighting a flash can make things worse.Not like I'm telling you anything you don't know.[:P] Unless youdid a really good job not showing it.


Keep up the great work!


John.

[ddt0725]

Great suggestion Joel, and well executed Denise!


Rich
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Improvement or should I have left well enough alone?
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I'm learning! It's been a rainy day so I have practiced a few things today in PSE. By George, I may just be getting the hang of it!

Denise

[ddt0725]

Now if I could get results like your song sparrow, Joel ...I

[Steve U]

...I'd be one estatic person! Nice job!
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Why do you want to be so bendy?


Ohh no that's elastic, isn't it?


Seriously, the posts on this thread just get better and better.


Thanks for sharing the wisdom Joel and for the images from you and other contributors.

[DavidEccleston]

Some Chickadees and a Red-Breasted Nuthatch found along the Lime Kiln trail, Ottawa, ON. Click through for full exif.


First two are 24-105mm F4L @ 105mm. On Flickr as 1024 wide.
Second two are 85mm f/1.8. These are only 800 wide.

[ddt0725]

All of your shots are fantastic, David but the last one is absolutely awesome!! I wish the chickadees in my yard were so friendly!


Denise

[DavidEccleston]

Thanks Denise. The chickadees in town won't come up to you. But drive to a trail 10 minutes from town and they'll follow you down the path. I read somewhere that chickadees need to eat fairly frequently just to remain alive, and they enter some sort of suspended animation state at night. This makes them a bit braver about finding food. Often groups of 4 or 5 coming to feed at the same time. In winter you can have more than a dozen swarming around you, all desperate for food. You'll need to be out during the day, because as soon as dusk starts to fall, they'll all disappear.


You can see a thumb holding up the dish on the nuthatch image, showing that they'll come up pretty close too. They'll often join the chickadees in landing on your hand (or head) to feed.

[Fast Glass]

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[JJphoto]

Have tried to take some more pictures of smaller birds since got the 500mm, still not many keepers, here are two of them.


7D, 700mm


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[Fast Glass]

Very nice JJ! I like them very much. If you wan