Post your best bird shots!

[conropl]

Andy, I really like the mother goose.


Below where from this last weekend. Both where from 7D, 100-<span style="background-color: #ffffff;"]400<span style="color: #ff0000;"]L @ 400mm, f/5.6, 1/4000 sec


A couple of Love Birds


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[JJphoto]

JJ, I think you are being hard on yourself.

well i guess i just didn't know how to express what i felt, it seems like it(the clean looking) is related to the noise level after reading your reply.

I export as jpeg without resizing, with quality set to 100 and the standard amount of sharpening for screen output. I upload the full size (10-15 MB) jpeg to flickr but what you see here is flickr's downsized version at 640 pixels wide. That way, this site doesn't need to re-size the image again.

that's a good tip, thank you Andy!

[Pieter]

Joel, I really like your

[Joel Eade]

Thanks Pieter,


The exposure settings I had were determined by taking shots and looking at the histogram, it was very heavily overcast and the ambient light was poor, thus the slow shutter speed.. I was hand holding the 1DMKIII with the 300mm 2.8 and the 1.4TC no problem. I was shooting ducks and geese slowly swimming when one goose started to chase another across the water .... I just panned along with it

[Joel Eade]

Andy,


That Argentinian bird has to be some kind of Robin or Thrush, I don

[Andy Stringer]

That Argentinian bird has to be some kind of Robin or Thrush

I think that's as close as anyone is likely to get to the right answer. It's a Magellanic Thrush, a subspecies of the Austral Thrush.

[Joel Eade]

Long Billed Curlew, Alafia River, Florida .. last September


1DMKIII


500mm f/4 + 1.4 TCII


Tripod


1/1250


f/8


iso 400





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[JJphoto]

Got it today, lucky or unlucky? I don't know, these two are out of maybe 500 shouts of this hawk


7D, 500mm 4.0, f4.5 1/800, ISO200


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7D, 500mm 4.0 f4.0, 1/2500, ISO1600


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the last one is a uncropped one, I really wanted to kick myself after I viewed this one and wished I was using my 300mm[:@]


thanks for viewing!

[HDNitehawk]

JJ they look really good


Did you notice the hawk is banded?

[JJphoto]

thanks Rick!, and yes, I did noticed that, but I don