Post your best bird shots!

[Joel Eade]

+1.....even the Hen is applauding

Thank you sir!

[Joel Eade]

Trying to catch song birds in flight for a hour or so this afternoon, this was the best I came up with. I find it very very hard to track their short fast fights back and forth to the bird feeders.

1D MKIV
500mm
ISO 2000
f/4.5
1/2500

[Steve U]

Love those last two Joel, the violet hues in the mallard wings are beautiful.
Handsome turkeys Brant.

[conropl]

Trying to catch song birds in flight for a hour or so this afternoon, this was the best I came up with. I find it very very hard to track their short fast fights back and forth to the bird feeders.

1D MKIV
500mm
ISO 2000
f/4.5
1/2500

Wow! At f/4.5 to DOF is not much to catch a fast bird in flight. At 10 feet the DOF is less that +/- 1/8" from nominal, and at 20 feet it is just over +/- 1/2". That would be hard to track. Impressive.

The malard was very nice also.

[Joel Eade]

Wow! At f/4.5 to DOF is not much to catch a fast bird in flight. At 10 feet the DOF is less that +/- 1/8" from nominal, and at 20 feet it is just over +/- 1/2". That would be hard to track. Impressive.

The malard was very nice also.

I was trying maximize shutter speed....didn't really stop to calculate the DOF....just another factor explaining why it's so hard to get focused on a small bird flying at close range!

[dsiegel5151]

Haven't been shooting a lot lately. This typically happens during the school year. However, spring break starts this evening and I'm driving to SE Louisiana. Hopefully I'll be posting some decent pictures in a week or so. Until then, here is a Common Grackle. My backyard is flooded and there are 100s of Grackles hanging out. This one was eye-balling me.

[Joel Eade]

Haven't been shooting a lot lately. This typically happens during the school year. However, spring break starts this evening and I'm driving to SE Louisiana. Hopefully I'll be posting some decent pictures in a week or so. Until then, here is a Common Grackle. My backyard is flooded and there are 100s of Grackles hanging out. This one was eye-balling me.

These are a common species but you don't see alot of images of them, they have very nice iridescent colos and I love the bright yellow eye!

[Joel Eade]

I am continuing to process some duck images I took about 2 weeks ago....was at a city park where the birds will get very close....I wonder what happened to this Mallards bill?

[dsiegel5151]

These are a common species but you don't see alot of images of them, they have very nice iridescent colos and I love the bright yellow eye!

Yeah, I'd like to shoot some more Grackles once I get a better lighting setup (i.e., the better beamer you suggested and/or some wireless triggers). They can be very pretty birds. Unfortunately, I had about the worst lighting conditions to work with this morning. I didn't have time to shoot this morning before I had to teach for the sun to get far enough over my house to light up my feeders. So the backlighting was a little too much and I had to use iso settings that I feel are unacceptable for the 40D just to get 1/250s. Hopefully we get more rain this year and I continue to have a bunch visit my flooded yard.

[Joel Eade]

Yeah, I'd like to shoot some more Grackles once I get a better lighting setup (i.e., the better beamer you suggested and/or some wireless triggers).

Love the Better Beamer ... probably the best "bang for the buck" accessory I have ever seen...it's magical.