Post your best bird shots!

[Karsaa]

White-throated Dipper by Kari, on Flickr

One of my earlier shots with current camera and the sigma 150-500. This is heavily cropped image. What i love most on this, is the water around the bird. It was bit windy but very sunny early spring on my favorite photospot. Gonna try get more resent pictures from that place this weekend.

[sedwards]

i am really liking the 1DsIII
Tufted Titmouse
1DS35083-Edit by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

white-breasted nuthatch
1DS35059-Edit-2 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

[Jonathan Huyer]

It's pretty rare for me to post a shot in this forum, but here's one of a juvenile bald eagle (with a scrap of salmon), taken in central British Columbia on my recent bear-viewing trip. We were able to get surprisingly close... this image is uncropped.
Canon 1DX, 500 mm f/4 II, 1/400 sec @ f/7.1, ISO 1600

[Joel Eade]

Really nice pose and details are great....you're right, surprisingly close....this one could actually use a little more space around the subject. I bet that was a thrill to get in close range with an eagle. Good work.

[Jonathan Huyer]

Really nice pose and details are great....you're right, surprisingly close....this one could actually use a little more space around the subject. I bet that was a thrill to get in close range with an eagle. Good work.

Thanks Joel --- yes I would agree, a bit less focal length would have helped (how often does anyone ever say that, for birds?!). We were drifting in slowly in a boat, and I was firing like mad. But the shots from farther out didn't have as nice a pose. It was definitely exciting... enough to make me think that I might want to be a real birder someday

[Joel Eade]

Not an Eagle but a pretty Blue Jay.....



7D MKII
500mm
ISO 2500
1/500
f/4.0

[sedwards]

tree sparrow
1Ds III
400mm
iso 400
1/800
f 5.6

1DS35194 by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

[Dave Throgmartin]

Do you guys find that the JPG engine produces satisfactory birding images or do you always shoot RAW? I like that JPG doesn't choke down the buffer.

Thanks
Dave

[Joel Eade]

Always RAW for me. Gives a lot more latitude in post processing and I rarely hit the buffer limit.

[sedwards]

i havent hit the buffer either and i often get the exposure wrong so raw is a life saver .