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These guys were having quite a scrap. It was difficult shooting with all the fighter jet acrobatics going on. This is the best of the bunch: IMG_6042.jpg by Brian.M.K, on Flickr I few minutes prior I came this --->.<--- close to getting the elusive "eagle squirting poo poo" photo. Better luck next time, I guess.
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May 25, 2012 20:31
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^^ That's a pretty awesome photo. The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Creative Convention > The Dorkroom > Birds: I came this close to getting the elusive "eagle squirting poo poo" photo.
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May 25, 2012 21:12
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Rot posted:These guys were having quite a scrap. Some birds are just assholes. I had finally cornered a Great Blue Heron to get a good shoot started when out of no where this gently caress head red winged blackbird screwed everything up.  All I could do was jam down the shutter and not fall over in the muck (scared the poo poo out of me).      Chased it all the way down the side of the lake.
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May 25, 2012 21:28
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Some birds are just assholes. I had finally cornered a Great Blue Heron to get a good shoot started when out of no where this gently caress head red winged blackbird screwed everything up. I like this one. "ok gently caress you then, I'm leaving." Unfortunately I wasn't carrying my camera at the time, but here's a Bird Battle story. Anyone in Vancouver knows this tree: the giant one in Vanier Park, right in front of the Coast Guard office. There's this gigantic eagle's nest in there. One day my brother and I were walking by and *plop* this hunk of meat and grey feathers drops down right in front of us. The screams of young eagles followed as mom eagle and a couple sea gulls come blasting out of the tree. Mom tore one of the remaining gulls in half and dropped the pieces into the ocean while the final gull got the gently caress out of dodge. Usually you see the smaller birds chasing off the eagles but it's pretty  to see them hold their ground.
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May 25, 2012 22:53
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Rot posted:Usually you see the smaller birds chasing off the eagles but it's pretty You'll like this then.
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May 25, 2012 22:58
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Awesome. In the spring/summer/fall I spend two weeks of every month working in northern BC and frankly eagles are as common as gulls and ravens up there. 90% of the time they're doing this:  IMG_6286.jpg by Brian.M.K, on Flickr Just sitting there, looking kinda scruffy, and not doing anything particularly photogenic. Eaglechat: Last year one of our pilots called me to report that he hit a salmon with his Longranger. WHAT?!?! Apparently he surprised an eagle trying to get away with the fish and dropped it into the flight path. What a mess that was.
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May 25, 2012 23:17
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Some birds are just assholes. I had finally cornered a Great Blue Heron to get a good shoot started when out of no where this gently caress head red winged blackbird screwed everything up. Hahaha, yeah I've been in the same situation. I was creeping up on a heron and some tiny bird I couldn't recognize divebombed right onto the back of the heron. The heron let out such a blood curdling "scream" it probably scared away any other wildlife in the area for rest of the day, including itself. Those little birds remind me of chihuahuas, thinking they're much bigger than they really are.
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May 26, 2012 01:45
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I don't know if it's mostly males or not, but if it is, those little birds are being superbadass in an effort to impress the ladies. Littlebirdy: "I fukin' took on a heron!" Littlebirdy 2: "An EAGLE! gently caress yeah!" Ladybirdy: *swoon* It's my running hypothesis for why you can usually get pretty close to a red-wing blackbird when he's screaming out his territory boundaries. You're proof of his bravery. Testosterone is common across vertebrates, at least.
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May 26, 2012 07:24
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PREYING MANTITS posted:Those little birds remind me of chihuahuas, thinking they're much bigger than they really are. He seemed quite pleased with himself. Here he is returning from his anti-heron strafing run.  I'm really itching to pick up a cheap x-300mm lens. This 55-200 just isn't cutting it in the wild. It's fine for parks but that's about it.
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May 26, 2012 08:25
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 A baby Wood Duck contemplates its jump to freedom.
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May 27, 2012 20:02
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mobot posted:
This is really god drat good. Props.  bread radar by jankyangles, on Flickr  fuzz ball by jankyangles, on Flickr  morning shakedown by jankyangles, on Flickr
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May 27, 2012 21:48
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InternetJunky posted:
These are loving awesome. Just got back from a vacation in the Southwest and am now in Tampa for work. Safe to say, I'll have a few photos to post once I get time to post. Glad to see people experienced two of my favorite birds who happen to be utter assholes when a camera comes out: Wilson's Warbler and American Kestrel.
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May 30, 2012 03:14
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Saw these two ducks in a pond in Germany, I suspect they're related to Mallards but that's all I know. Plus they wouldn't come near me and I only had my 17-55   Schloss Charlottenburg by hookshot88, on Flickr  Schloss Charlottenburg by hookshot88, on Flickr  Schloss Charlottenburg by hookshot88, on Flickr  Schloss Charlottenburg by hookshot88, on Flickr Plus this dude had really interesting colouring on his head:  Schloss Charlottenburg by hookshot88, on Flickr
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May 30, 2012 13:31
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Mandarin Duck is what they are. Not too closely related, Mallards are in a big genus, Mandarins are in a different, small, genus that just has the Mandarin in Europe/Asia and the Wood Duck in North America
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May 30, 2012 13:55
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neckbeard posted:Mandarin Duck is what they are. Not too closely related, Mallards are in a big genus, Mandarins are in a different, small, genus that just has the Mandarin in Europe/Asia and the Wood Duck in North America Oh cool, thanks for that! I can definitely see the resemblance to the wood duck now that you mention it, hadn't even thought of it before.
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May 30, 2012 13:58
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Installed Lightroom 4.1 and I am hugely impressed by its highlight recovery feature. Shots I had put aside (but thankfully not deleted) because of blown highlights LR3 could not help with have had new life breathed into them.
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Jun 1, 2012 20:46
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110 degrees in the park today. All the birds were panting up a storm. industry avian 2 small by jankyangles, on Flickr  derp grackle small by jankyangles, on Flickr This one terrifies me. I didn't know grackles had that horrific looking thing for the inside of their beaks.  What are those teeth looking things? grackle alien small by jankyangles, on Flickr
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Jun 2, 2012 08:22
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Some DUCKIES!!! and Mystery Bird (that I think is probably related to the goose family) from Helsinki.  Duckies by hookshot88, on Flickr  Duckies by hookshot88, on Flickr  Duckies by hookshot88, on Flickr  Helsinki Bird by hookshot88, on Flickr  Helsinki Bird by hookshot88, on Flickr  Helsinki Bird by hookshot88, on Flickr
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HookShot posted:
Sweet! I love the little line of ducklings marching up the rocks. Shot in the dark: you didn't happen to capture any video of this scene by chance? I'm looking for these kinds of scenes for a PBS show right now.
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Jun 3, 2012 22:37
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mobot posted:Sweet! I love the little line of ducklings marching up the rocks. Shot in the dark: you didn't happen to capture any video of this scene by chance? I'm looking for these kinds of scenes for a PBS show right now. Sorry, I only have a 30D and it doesn't take video, otherwise I definitely would have
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Jun 3, 2012 22:55
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HookShot posted:Some DUCKIES!!! and Mystery Bird (that I think is probably related to the goose family) from Helsinki. Looks like a Barnacle Goose. Nice shots.
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I'm still finding my way around the camera, photoshop, and photography in general, but I like photographing birds and I'm happy with how a few have come out so far. This panning shot taken at dusk turned out ok, at least at lower resolutions.  Engage Paddle Factor 5 by Scissors B, on Flickr Taken from a moving boat.  Black Oystercatchers - Tough Crowd by Scissors B, on Flickr Another shot taken in shadow at dusk. I can see it's a flawed shot, but I still quite like the overall effect.  Northwestern Crow by Scissors B, on Flickr
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Jun 6, 2012 00:41
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I wish I could photoshop, because this guy needs a cane and top hat. dancing_robin 274 on Flickr
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Jun 6, 2012 04:36
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This nest was just outside the window on the boarding ramp for the ferry to Tallinn in Helsinki. I only brought my kit lens with me so thankfully they were so close I was still able to get good photos: Birds by hookshot88, on Flickr  Birds by hookshot88, on Flickr
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Jun 6, 2012 08:17
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You live near Helsinki? Going there Tuesday evening, not sure how much time I will have for any shooting but bringing the E-M5 along. Any area in particular worth visiting?
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Jun 6, 2012 13:04
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Clayton Bigsby posted:You live near Helsinki? Going there Tuesday evening, not sure how much time I will have for any shooting but bringing the E-M5 along. Any area in particular worth visiting?
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Jun 6, 2012 17:35
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 A juvenile cormorant  I'm really happy with this shot of a painted bunting
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Jun 6, 2012 19:02
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Hope you don't mind a deluge of Florida birds. Possibly the most beautiful bird I've ever seen:  Swallow-Tailed Kite by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  Wild Turkey Tom by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  Black Vulture by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  Great Egret by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  Prothonotary Warbler by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  Prothonotary Warbler 2 by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  Yet Another White Ibis by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  Willet by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  White Ibis Attacks by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  Purple Martin by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  Snowy Egret by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  20120602-20120602-_MG_0437.jpg by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  Adult Sandhill Crane by beastofexmoor, on Flickr  Juvenile Sandhill Crane by beastofexmoor, on Flickr
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Jun 7, 2012 03:43
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Jun 7, 2012 06:55
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Finally got to work on my photos from Kauai I took in late April. Cock of the walk by faltion, on Flickr  Soulful by faltion, on Flickr  Nene by faltion, on Flickr  Free by faltion, on Flickr  Asura by faltion, on Flickr
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Jun 11, 2012 03:46
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Faltion posted:
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Jun 11, 2012 21:34
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I only had my 17-55 when I took these, but oh well. Birds by hookshot88, on Flickr  Birds by hookshot88, on Flickr  Goose by hookshot88, on Flickr  Duck by hookshot88, on Flickr
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Jun 12, 2012 01:43
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Here's a couple of shots I got on my last photo-shoot. Taken with a Canon 70-200 f/4 IS with a 1.4x Kenko Extender on my Canon 60D. I'm new to shooting birds, still working on the whole capturing moving things on camera aspect of it. Here's a pelican flying over the San Francisco Bay.  And a lowly pidgin wandering Fisherman's Wharf. I was just testing out my extender but am really impressed with the bokeh and sharpness of the pic! 
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Jun 12, 2012 02:00
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I startled a Great Horned Owl during the day. He flew off and then walked around looking all pissed-off. Sorry guy.  DSC_3374 by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Canyon Towhee  DSC_3654 by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Maybe a Black-chinned Hummingbird? She flew right to her nest and made like a leaf once I walked up.  DSC_3487 by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr
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Jun 12, 2012 17:51
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Oh God baby hummingbird. 
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Jun 12, 2012 17:53
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Faltion posted:Finally got to work on my photos from Kauai I took in late April. This is great- we actually just bought a print that looks like this for a labmate who studies peafowl... edit- I'm selling that same extender that Arob1000 used in the buy/sell thread if anyone wants one! BetterLekNextTime fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jun 12, 2012 |
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Jun 12, 2012 18:04
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Jun 13, 2012 00:38
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neckbeard posted:I'm like 95% sure this is a brown-headed cowbird, can someone confirm/deny? Confirm. They do that weird looking up thing all the time for some reason.
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