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Looks like Spring, but no babies yet. grouse&dandylions 080 on Flickr  arms_crossed_grouse 082 on Flickr  close_thrasher 086 on Flickr  chugwater_hola 085 on Flickr
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May 3, 2012 21:32
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 Gull does not approve of other gull eating chicken by tylerhuestis, on Flickr  American Wigeons by tylerhuestis, on Flickr  Lesser Scaup by tylerhuestis, on Flickr
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May 6, 2012 04:12
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Just getting my feet wet with birds. These were all done at a city park where you're now allowed to get in the water and the water is a good 3' lower than the walkways. After seeing how much getting a lower angle improves the shot (you guys are really god drat good) it looks like I'll be taking regular treks up to the mountains so I can be more inventive with shooting angles. Birds are a ton of a fun though even with my limited gear (D3100, 55-200/4-5.6). Compared to the stuff in this thread these are pretty awful. I need to post out the crud in the water.  drink by jankyangles, on Flickr Background is super distracting.  almost there by jankyangles, on Flickr Damnit. So close on this one.  boys will be boys by jankyangles, on Flickr   bundle of cute by jankyangles, on Flickr  harsh by jankyangles, on Flickr Bonus hilarity spray and pray shot. I knew she missed the landing but holy   hahahaha by jankyangles, on Flickr Sorry for the wall of mediocre shots but thank you guys/gals for the great advice on getting started. Already digging for couch change so I can get a longer lens.
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May 6, 2012 05:13
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a bunch of seagulls around the SF bay area 5D3_6029 by capacity4action, on Flickr  D4+600mmVR by capacity4action, on Flickr  DSC_1253 by capacity4action, on Flickr
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May 6, 2012 05:29
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Bonus hilarity spray and pray shot. I knew she missed the landing but holy Hahahah this shot rules, well done!
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May 6, 2012 08:59
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Managed to snag a few hours for myself and hit up the park. It was noon so the light was terrible but such is life.  awkward moment by jankyangles, on Flickr Blown out as hell but for some reason I kept it.  take off by jankyangles, on Flickr A heron of some kind? Seeing an animal this big in Arizona is weird as hell.  heron profile by jankyangles, on Flickr She's so adorable. Side note: adorable ducks will still bite the poo poo out of you. time to get out by jankyangles, on Flickr Maker Of Shoes fucked around with this message at 22:19 on May 7, 2012 |
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May 7, 2012 22:13
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Managed to snag a few hours for myself and hit up the park. It was noon so the light was terrible but such is life. The Heron is indeed a Great-Blue Heron. Your first bird really has me puzzled. I'm probably missing something obvious, but a quick troll through Sibley's gives me only a Black-whiskered Vireo as anything close, but you'd be about a thousand miles away from where it's even considered rare if you're in AZ. Any idea what it is?
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May 8, 2012 04:24
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^^^^^I think it's a female grackle of some sort. edit- a few recent, heavily cropped photos. Cassin's Finch  sinks_cassins_finch 126 on Flickr Mountain Chickadee  sinks_mntn_chickadee 124 on Flickr Wilson's Phalaropes, female on top, male on the bottom  two-wilsons-phalaropes 123 on Flickr BetterLekNextTime fucked around with this message at 05:09 on May 8, 2012 |
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May 8, 2012 04:35
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BeastOfExmoor posted:Any idea what it is?
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May 8, 2012 05:14
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The night herons are nesting again 
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May 8, 2012 05:49
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^ Awesome. BetterLekNextTime posted:^^^^^I think it's a female grackle of some sort. Female Great-Tailed Grackle makes sense. I thought I was seeing a lot of green, but I think my color blindness and laptop monitor were conspiring against me. It would also meet the qualifaction as something I really should have been familiar with. Nice photos. I have only fruitless, blurry attempts at both, sadly. Maker Of Shoes posted:I haven't the foggiest. My bird identification skills are very much in their infancy. Did it have a big-rear end tail? That would pretty much clinch it. The second picture looks like it at second look, but the compression hides it a bit.
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May 8, 2012 05:54
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Dread Head posted:Spring is here:  IMG_4706 by Aidan R, on Flickr
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May 8, 2012 06:35
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BeastOfExmoor posted:Did it have a big-rear end tail? That would pretty much clinch it. The second picture looks like it at second look, but the compression hides it a bit.  Thanks for the tips everyone. 
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May 8, 2012 06:56
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Took this one a while ago, in our backyard. bird-nest by ralph-brewer, on Flickr
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May 8, 2012 18:13
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still no baby birds up north where I live  Picture didn't turn out as great as I would have liked, was a bit taken off-guard and it started to dart off into the trees. Even though I was at a park alongside a major river was a bit shocked to see a pheasant in the middle of the city  Ring-necked Pheasant by tylerhuestis, on Flickr  Lesser Scaup Hen by tylerhuestis, on Flickr
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May 11, 2012 03:46
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Love the lighting on both of those. Nice! no baby birds here either.
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May 11, 2012 05:02
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Went to the lake by my dad's place earlier: Barn Swallows by tylerhuestis, on Flickr  Red-necked Grebe by tylerhuestis, on Flickr  Red-necked Grebes by tylerhuestis, on Flickr  Common Grackle by tylerhuestis, on Flickr  Common Grackle by tylerhuestis, on Flickr  Red-winged Blackbird male by tylerhuestis, on Flickr  Red-winged Blackbird female by tylerhuestis, on Flickr  American Coot by tylerhuestis, on Flickr
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May 13, 2012 05:00
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I finally got a chance to head outside yesterday. Got a couple of firsts for me which was nice. I don't know what kind of hawk this is, anyone know?  Mountain Bluebird:  Robin:  American Kestrel (heavy crop):  This little bastard lead me on a one hour tour and seemed to know exactly how close I wanted to get -- always flying away just before I could get close enough for a decent shot. After an hour I finally managed to approach him, the lighting was perfect, and a drat magpie came and chased him away. This is sadly the best shot I could get.
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May 13, 2012 15:27
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InternetJunky posted:I don't know what kind of hawk this is, anyone know? http://www.surfbirds.com/namericanbirds/hawk-owl.html
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May 13, 2012 15:36
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  Spent an hour in a whooping crane enclosure. It was pretty cool.  Also a wattled crane  A great grackle photo  And one I juuuuuust missed on Shooting birds is fun and I love my 70-200. So smooth.
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May 13, 2012 17:44
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InternetJunky posted:I finally got a chance to head outside yesterday. Got a couple of firsts for me which was nice. Looks like Swainson's Hawk based on the chest pattern. Pablo Bluth, Red-shouldered Hawks don't come to western Canada. Also, InternetJunky, apparently there's a Bald Eagle's nest somewhere on the east side of the city in the river valley
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May 13, 2012 18:07
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      This one wasn't feeling too well after meeting our living room window.
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May 13, 2012 19:30
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I like to shoot birds at 17mm  The problem is that they freak out when a camera goes off a few inches from their face.   also, not a bird: 
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May 13, 2012 22:49
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neckbeard posted:Looks like Swainson's Hawk based on the chest pattern. Pablo Bluth, Red-shouldered Hawks don't come to western Canada. Yesterday I had the kayak out for the first time this year. I went out to a lake that has an island loaded with nesting seagulls, so I have about 300 pictures of gulls to sort through. For now, have a couple of shots of this American Avocet that I was very happy to be able to sneak up on in my boat:   There were four of them at the lake, and these are the first I've seen that are semi-close to Edmonton.
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May 14, 2012 13:59
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Kayaking as a photography platform sounds like something I'd like to try, but southern England really is not the place. So much of our decent water-bird habitat is in nature reserves where you'd be burned as a heretic if you turned up with a boat. In fact we have some of the worse water access rights in the world; it's estimated that less than 2% of our rivers have public access or rights of navigation. The rest is deemed private property and the owner hasn't given permission. From what I can gather, it's the recreational fishing who are most vocal in maintaining the status quo.
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May 14, 2012 19:59
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Pablo Bluth posted:Kayaking as a photography platform sounds like something I'd like to try, but southern England really is not the place. So much of our decent water-bird habitat is in nature reserves where you'd be burned as a heretic if you turned up with a boat.
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May 14, 2012 20:18
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8858404/River-peace-shattered-by-battle-for-right-to-paddle.html
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May 14, 2012 20:22
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dakana posted:I love it.
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May 14, 2012 23:33
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azathosk posted:It looks like you're knocking it away from the food stand. Haha, thanks!  More remote nonsense. He's out of focus, unfortunately, and it's a pretty heavy crop, so it looks like rear end in a top hat. I also am without a high-speed sync flash at the moment, and underestimated the amount of craziness I'd get at 1/200th and fill flash. My problem is that I want to have a super close shot, but it's so hard to predict where they're going to land, and then when they'll be there. I end up having to sit outside or at the kitchen table with the feeder in my peripheral vision and if I catch fluttering grab the trigger. Without a working laptop, I can't sit there for hours doing nothing; I've got poo poo to do =/ I only got two today in as many hours sitting outside reading for as long as I could stand the heat and sun. I'd like to rig up a beam motion trigger and let it sit there all day, but the feeder swings back and forth from the wind, so that wouldn't work. The other is shooting interval. I did that for a bit and ended up with this  which just makes me sad for what could have been. The problem with interval shooting is that the click might scare away a bird that is close, ruining the shot before the bird got into position. The other is that I don't want to put thousands of clicks on my camera if it's not for something cool like a time lapse.
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May 15, 2012 23:32
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May 16, 2012 05:33
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Birds! Wilson's Warbler (He moved around a lot and I kept missing focus, so I was very happy when I finally got a few alright shots.)   A Curve-billed Thrasher came to check me out when I was stalking the warblers  Something was wrong with this Barn Swallow  Full crop Summer Tanager  Black-throated Sparrow (kinda far-off, but I love how striking they are in the desert)  And a grumpy Curve-billed Thrasher 
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May 16, 2012 16:31
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I'm in los angeles, so the selection of birds are slim. The progression in population goes like this: Pigeons -> Seagulls -> Sparrows -> Finches -> Some wild conures -> Everything else Found what I think is a Western Tanager and it's mate living in the trees outside my apartment! This is my first time shooting birds, using a crappy 70-300 on a 5D. Male:    Female:  And some kind of hummingbird, which totally ignores the feeder that I placed ever so lovingly on my balcony. 
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May 16, 2012 23:11
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Just got back from Monteray Bay Aquarium; Bird Chillen or something by capacity4action, on Flickr  Stink Eye by capacity4action, on Flickr  Sand Stalker by capacity4action, on Flickr
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May 17, 2012 01:45
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Duckjob- nice job with those- I've tried to shoot there in that exhibit before and all my birds either had super obvious leg bands or were obviously injured birds. Super-jealous about the black grouse, fnif! Would love to see those one of these days. A couple of shots from Montana. Stuck here with a flat until Monday so I can upload a couple of pics. Junco in Glacier NP  glacier_junco 210 on Flickr Cinnamon Teals  montana_cinnamon_teal 211 on Flickr Yellow-headed Blackbird  montana_yhbb_mountainview 212 on Flickr Also, tons of Great-horned Owls. We've run into 3 nests with big fluffy fledglings within a mile or two of the house we are staying at. Definitely my best pics of these guys. I also got some short-eared owl pics but they are from really far away so maybe I'll post those in the critterquest thread when I make it back.  montana_gho_adult 213 on Flickr  montana_gho_fledgling 214 on Flickr
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May 20, 2012 16:56
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Those are some really awesome owl shots. afr by jankyangles, on Flickr  douchebag mallard by jankyangles, on Flickr  mom snapshot by jankyangles, on Flickr  mosw by jankyangles, on Flickr
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May 20, 2012 17:10
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I love this thread so much  Castel Sant'Angelo by hookshot88, on Flickr
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May 20, 2012 20:32
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A few more owls. I found out they were eating local- stealing nestlings from a robin nest right next to the house. This one flew down towards the nest then saw me.  adult_gho_montana 221 on Flickr  adult_gho_montana 222 on Flickr  owl_eating_robin 220 on Flickr  40-year-old-owl 219 on Flickr 
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May 21, 2012 01:53
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Lovely owl shots, but poor robin I went out in the kayak again yesterday. Got some firsts for me: Semipalmated Plover:  Lesser Yellowlegs:   I also chased some horned grebes all over the lake I was on but without any decent shots. Little bastards!
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A couple from Yellowstone. Not as happy with the Lark Sparrow but it's the best photo I've ever gotten of one. ynp_bbmagpie 187 on Flickr  ynp_lark_sparrow 202 on Flickr
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