Post your best bird shots!

[Raid]

compounded my error by putting 2 of the same pix.

This shot is so good that it deserves to be shown more than once.

[BillW]

This shot is so good that it deserves to be shown more than once.

LOL Raid....it's a shot I've been trying to get for a couple of weeks....I think I succeeded, although I will keep shooting low shutter speed photos.

Bill

[sedwards]

I finally managed to get close enough to this guy for a shot.
5D3_5201 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

[sedwards]

Female American Goldfinch.
1Ds III
400mm
f5.6
1/400
ISO 1250
1DS30071 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

[sedwards]

House Sparrow. .First attempt at off camera flash.

5D3_6009 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

Female Purple Finch
5D3_6008 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

[Joel Eade]

The images look good, the light looks natural and not "flashed"

I think the birds themselves could be just a bit brighter but that could be my monitor.

[jerrytech1]

Tree*Swallow Lift Off
TreeSwallowWM copy by gerard melillo, on Flickr

[Jonathan Huyer]

I took this shot last fall, on a bear viewing trip. I used an exposure compensation of -1 to avoid blowing out the head feathers, and just held the button down and hoped for the best. Sometimes it works out!

[Busted Knuckles]

I took this shot last fall, on a bear viewing trip. I used an exposure compensation of -1 to avoid blowing out the head feathers, and just held the button down and hoped for the best. Sometimes it works out!

Couple weeks back TDP linked to a bunch of really fun to watch videos produced by B&H of some famous/highly regarded photographers. I watched several and Ron (forgot his last name) was a hoot and very insightful. As I learned from my pics of the two Big Horn Sheep doing their head butt - FPS is like altitude in a plane - the only stuff you can't use is the stuff beneath you, more is simply better. His example was a moment that could not be anticipated and only through FPS did an image get captured w/ a mom giraffe and baby - there was never going to be a skilled moment that predicted the event. As the effective cost of any given frame is basically -0- go ahead and let the camera do the work. You have to either work to get to the right place at the right time with the right light or simply get very lucky. I have noticed that the harder I work the luckier I get so I am all for putting the finger down.

Well done - LOVE IT

[sedwards]

I have at least 24 of these guys emptying my feeder every day. At least this one was nice enough to pose for me lol.
5D3_6256 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr