Post your best bird shots!

[Joel Eade]

Hi all, how's everybody doing? Joel and Denise I really like your song bird photographs, nothing's harder than shooting small birds in my opinion. I'm doing fine, just haven't shot anything worth posting for a long time. Got a few hours on Sunday so I went to my favorite place, Bolsa Chica and found this juvenile Red-tailed Hawk. These days I no longer handholding my 500, but on Sunday I handheld it for about 4 hours and boys my arms, wrists, shoulder and back are still paying after two days.

Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk
Canon 7D, 500 f/4L IS, f/4, 1/3200, ISO 400, handheld

You can view the larger version here http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo...674512&size=lg

Thanks for viewing, comments and critiques are always welcome.

Nate,

Good to hear from you and see a great image. Perfect exposure and sharpness with a beautiful BG.....don't be a stranger!

[conropl]

Not much going on here today, just a few more backyard shots! The hb showed up again but he is faster than the speed of lightning and I still haven't gotten a shot of him yet

These will have to do in the meantime ...


A little exercise before dinner! by Denise Trocio ( www.dtrociophotography.com), on Flickr

Denise:
This is taking the back yard set up to far... putting a stripper pole in for the birds seem a bit much. There's got to be a local ordinance or some other law that you are breaking.

[dsiegel5151]

Robin nesting in neighbors yard.

[Joel Eade]

Identity quiz of the week .... what is this bird?

I have never seen it before, I think I know what it is but I'm not 100% certain.

[Joel Eade]

Denise, that Oriole is beautiful ... is that Audubon's Oriole? I have never seen one, awesome bird!

[dsiegel5151]

Indigo Bunting?

[thekingb]

Indigo Bunting?

Definitely. From my iBird app:

[ddt0725]

Denise, that Oriole is beautiful ... is that Audubon's Oriole? I have never seen one, awesome bird!

Thanks! Just a basic Baltimore Oriole, I believe.

[Joel Eade]

Indigo Bunting?

That is what I thought as well ( a female )

[dsiegel5151]

That is what I thought as well ( a female )

I was about 99% sure right when I saw the picture. But then when I read "never seen it before" I started to have second thoughts, b/c I know you have posted Indigo Buntings in the past. I was thinking you were talking about species and not sex of the species. I see the females all the time at Creve Couer park up by St. Louis. The slightly odd thing about the one you posted is that her median covert (or is that greater) is whitish. They are typically pretty monotone besides the blue and some faint breast markings.