Post your best bird shots!

[Joel Eade]

Agree, the detail resolution looks very very good....I would even say you could do slightly less sharpening in post and be just fine with these images. I think the Cardinal pose is really nice but, to my old eyes, it looks a little over-sharpened.

PS Have you found a cheap source for peanuts?...'round here they are way too high to consider feeding them to wildlife

[M_Six]

Agree, the detail resolution looks very very good....I would even say you could do slightly less sharpening in post and be just fine with these images. I think the Cardinal pose is really nice but, to my old eyes, it looks a little over-sharpened.

PS Have you found a cheap source for peanuts?...'round here they are way too high to consider feeding them to wildlife

Thanks, Joel. I buy 50lb bags of peanut pickouts (not for human consumption) at a local feed store. I think the 50lb bag runs about $40. It lasts me 6 or 7 weeks, especially during the good weather when there are other food sources. I put out the peanuts and black oil sunflower seeds every day.

[Kayaker72]

Agreed. I especially like the female cardinal.

[Joel Eade]

Male Goldfinch changing into summer plumage
1DX + 300mm f/2.8L + 2X TCIII
Iso 3200
f/5.6
1/1000

[Joel Eade]

Beautiful images Pat....I guess I should have said spring is here in KY but not the UP?



House Finch on Blackberry stem
1DX + 300mm f/2.8L + 2x TCIII
f/5.6
ISO 3200
1/500

[HDNitehawk]

@Joel IMO the House Finch on Blackberry stem is one of your current best

[Joel Eade]

Red Bellied Woodpecker

1D MKIV
700mm
ISO 3200
f/5.6
1/400
No flash

[Joel Eade]

It was a Woodpecker fest this afternoon when I got home....I got images of the above 2 species but also was able to spot (from a distance) a Pileated Woodpecker, a Hairy Woodpecker and a Red Headed Woodpecker all from my back porch at the same time! This is the first time I have seen a Red Headed Woodpecker in the backyard.....hoping he'll visit the perches soon! I have seen the Pileated's for a long time but they are my nemesis.....haven't got a good image yet

[Kayaker72]

@Pat...very nice GBHs. Low angle, were you kayaking in the snow? If it makes you feel better, NH is not far behind. Today is the first day I am noticing small leaves on the roses. Everything else is still buds.

@Joel. A beauty of a shot. When's your book coming out?

[conropl]

Thanks Joel and Brant.

@Pat...very nice GBHs. Low angle, were you kayaking in the snow? If it makes you feel better, NH is not far behind. Today is the first day I am noticing small leaves on the roses. Everything else is still buds.

You have leaves... what are those

We have been talking about getting the kayaks out, but have not done so yet. These were really lazy shots... I dorve down to the boat launch to check out the lake and caught this bird out of the corner of my eye as we were driving out. So I shut the car off and started snapping pictures from the car. I waited a while because he was catching fish and I wanted a shot of a fish in it's beak, but every time he had a fish he was facing away, so I never did get the shot I wanted. He was getting a little jittery with me there so I left before he flew away and lost his productive hunting area (beside, it was getting cold in the car w/o the heater on ).