Post your best bird shots!

[Joel Eade]

Nice pics of the Bunting and Cardinal.

I have not been lucky in getting the Indigo Bunting's into a good pose this year...they want to feed in the grass and not use my perches for some reason.

I think you will enjoy Topaz AI Sharpen (also AI DeNoise is phenomenal)

In your image I selected only the bird and applied the filter to it so as not to disturb the background.

It has the ability to enhance focus, remove slight blur and also to sharpen.

It is easy to use and the results are impressive.

[Zach]

Canyon Wren

[Kayaker72]

Very nice! I esprecially like the second.

[Zach]

Very nice! I esprecially like the second.

Thanks Brant

I tried to mimic your Lalalalalalalala picture, This little guy was quite the music maker!


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[Joel Eade]

More yard visitors....

[PatrickH]

These are so great Joel. Really nice variety. Honestly, if someone told me these were stuffed, under museum lights, and shot against a backdrop I would believe them. They are expertly exposed and isolated.

[Joel Eade]

These are so great Joel. Really nice variety. Honestly, if someone told me these were stuffed, under museum lights, and shot against a backdrop I would believe them. They are expertly exposed and isolated.

Thanks Patrick. I enjoy the "studio" look and I have worked to place perches very precisely to be the correct distance to achieve fine detail and also to get a clean background. I've always been fascinated by the details that are visible in the images when using a really good telephoto lens. Especially because such detail is seldom visible any other way. I still really like "birds on a stick". Thanks for looking and commenting.

[Kayaker72]

Thanks Brant

I tried to mimic your Lalalalalalalala picture, This little guy was quite the music maker!

I think you have got it down! It is amazing how much noise some of these small birds can make.

Thanks Patrick. I enjoy the "studio" look and I have worked to place perches very precisely to be the correct distance to achieve fine detail and also to get a clean background. I've always been fascinated by the details that are visible in the images when using a really good telephoto lens. Especially because such detail is seldom visible any other way. I still really like "birds on a stick". Thanks for looking and commenting.

What you do and post is very impressive and has inspired my backyard set up. Always great to see your posts.


As for a few more from me....Downy woodpecker. I was worried about whether I was miss identifying these as the Hairy woodpecker is very similar, just larger. I now have a much larger version showing up and the difference is obvious. Actually, I have 3 sizes, some very little ones (chicks?), the size below, and then what I think are the much larger Hairy woodpecker. I do not yet have a good photo of them, but give me time. They are showing up more often.

6S0A6781 by kayaker72, on Flickr

6S0A6773 by kayaker72, on Flickr


Thanks for viewing....Brant

[Joel Eade]

Thanks Brant ..... those are really good Downy pics.

There are 3 main ways to differentiate the Downy vs Hairy WP

1. Size: Downy is about the size of a sparrow (maybe 4-6 inches tall). Hairy is the size of a Robin (8-10 inches tall)

2. Bill: Downy has a short bill about 1/3 to 1/2 the head size. Hairy has a much larger bill more than 1/2 head size

3. Tail feathers: Downy has white outer tail feathers with spots of black and/or gray. Hairy has all white outer tail feathers with no spots

Looking forward to your images of the Hairy WP. They are frequent visitors to my set up but they are usually very nervous and easily spooked so it isn't often that I can image them in a good pose. One thing that helps is they will often stay out in the woods a bit and call several times before they come in so I can pre-focus on the perch that I expect them to use. That way very little camera movement is needed to get a few frames before they jump to the feeder or bolt away.

[Kayaker72]

Thanks Joel. I haven't seen what I think is a Hairy in awhile. It looked a lot like a Downy, but was much larger, I'd ballpark it around 8-9 inches. Also, as it flew off, the wound was distinctively different from the downys.

Some recent shots of birds in my backyard:

6S0A7173 by kayaker72, on Flickr

6S0A7079 by kayaker72, on Flickr

6S0A7057 by kayaker72, on Flickr

6S0A7045 by kayaker72, on Flickr

Thanks for viewing! Brant