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Moon Potato posted:As BetterLuckNextTime said, Point Reyes is great, and easily within day trip distance of SF.
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smallmouth posted:
Needs a touch of noise reduction but this is pretty great. I love red-winged black birds. They have no qualms with taking on birds much much larger than themselves. 
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InternetJunky posted:I'll post this here since it's bird-specific. If you can make it down the peninsula, I see American white-tailed kites hunting at Bedwell park pretty reliably, especially the hour before sundown over the lagoons. It's on the bay in Menlo Park. There are a ton of waterfowl as a backup - ducks, egrets, coots galore. http://www.friendsofbayfrontpark.org/birding.htm
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Needs a touch of noise reduction but this is pretty great. I love red-winged black birds. They have no qualms with taking on birds much much larger than themselves. Yeah, I got a little slider happy with these. There will be plenty more this summer as they're all over the place here.
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 Untitled by Eeek5127, on Flickr Anyway, 10:30, the other night, I go out in my yard, and there's the Wurster kid, looking up in the tree. I say, "What are you looking for?" He says "I'm looking for my burrow owl." I say, "Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick. Everybody knows the burrow owl lives. In a hole. In the ground. Why the hell do you think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?"
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Some less common ducks for once: Goldeneye  Mergansers  Think this is a Scaup?  Any idea? Nothing is ringing a bell for me.
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Casu Marzu posted:
 Looks like an Anhinga? And Lesser Scaup.
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INTJ Mastermind posted:
Maybe, but Anhinas are warm climate birds I thought. This was taken in Green Bay, WI, which is a bit frigid this time of year for them.
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Casu Marzu posted:Maybe, but Anhinas are warm climate birds I thought. This was taken in Green Bay, WI, which is a bit frigid this time of year for them. The other possibility is double-crested cormorant.
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That is indeed a cormorant. I feel horrible for flashing this sleeping owl, but it's very rare around here and it was right next to joggers/bikers/horses and didn't seem to notice. Sorry owl, I felt guilty right away.   Long-eared Owl on Flickr
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Eeek posted:
What ISO did you shoot this with? Or did you over sharpen it? I'm just trying to figure out why it's so noisy. It's a great shot.
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3200, 1/320, f/4. It's shot with a 400mm f4 DO lens. This was the last few minutes of light for the day. I had to boost the ISO up very high to get a decent shutter speed. Add to the that the clouds were very heavy. I would have had a little more fore thought, I would have spend the $40 on a Better Beamer. I am also traveling and had convert from RAW on Canon's DPP on my work computer and use iPhoto on my iPad to edit it. That is not my work flow of choice. I plan on editing it properly when I get home. Here's a few more with a little better light: Untitled by Eeek5127, on Flickr  Untitled by Eeek5127, on Flickr  Untitled by Eeek5127, on Flickr I watched that last one for 30 minutes. The second I turned the camera down, he flew right at me. Would have been a great in flight shot. Eeek fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Mar 24, 2013 |
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I've been watching this web cam for some time: http://dickpritchettrealestate.com/eagle-feed.html Since I am down here for work, I went down and took pictures. The light was really bad- just about to storm. I did get a few of one of the eaglets testing out its wings.  Untitled by Eeek5127, on Flickr  Untitled by Eeek5127, on Flickr  Untitled by Eeek5127, on Flickr Edit: spelling Eeek fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Mar 25, 2013 |
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Not a NatGeo picture, but I was pleased to have gotten a recognizeable picture of a quetzal. Resplendent Quetzal, Monteverde Cloud Forest by The.Rohit, on Flickr  Resplendent Quetzal, Monteverde by The.Rohit, on Flickr
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Shot at dead noon while he was perched on a blindingly white pillar.  Gambel's Quail  small-2899 by jankyangles, on Flickr
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Shot at dead noon while he was perched on a blindingly white pillar. Nice shot, though. He's so handsome! 
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They should have chicks soon. It's funny watching a pack of quail and road runners duke it out. The quail will swarm the road runner trying to chase it off while the road runner punts and flings them like little feathery footballs. Hopefully they stick around my work like last year.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:The quail will swarm the road runner trying to chase it off while the road runner punts and flings them like little feathery footballs. I want pics. 
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Kicking up some snow. Wish I was a little closer. CHG_battle_in_snow 1145 on Flickr
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Couldn't quite get the focus on these two ravens playing DSC_8632.jpg by Steven Sarginson, on Flickr Like this one even though it's blurry. This was not flipped upside down  DSC_8631.jpg by Steven Sarginson, on Flickr
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Bitch, I'm fabulous.  red winged blackbird by philip painter, on Flickr And mean as hell.  chase by philip painter, on Flickr  chase by philip painter, on Flickr  honk by philip painter, on Flickr
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I just got back from 2 weeks in San Francisco. My first night there I went for a walk and 10 seconds later had a raptor fly about 2 metres over my head with a pigeon in its claws.  12+ hour days meant no pictures for me. BetterLekNextTime posted:Juvie Male. smallmouth posted:And mean as hell.
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InternetJunky posted:I've never seen blackbirds giving a crap about anything other than raptors before. Given that herons will pretty much stuff anything down their throats I suppose it makes sense. Regardless, great job capturing the behaviour. That last shot looks like he is coming in for a landing on the heron. Thanks! Yeah, they were having none of his poo poo.
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INTJ Mastermind posted:
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Female mallards are so gorgeous. I got some cheapshots from my folk's feeder tonight.  red breasted nuthatch by philip painter, on Flickr  junco by philip painter, on Flickr
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Some more harriers from Arcata Marsh: The Canon 150-600 has severe veiling flare issues, but sometimes it's pretty.  This guy likes to fly by and see what my deal is every now and then when I'm filming  And a snowy egret  Moon Potato fucked around with this message at 07:44 on Apr 7, 2013 |
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  He has unfortunately taken up residence in the trees around my house and scared the rest of the birds away.
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You have appeared to have typed 'unfortunately' when you meant 'awesomely'.
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Pablo Bluth posted:You have appeared to have typed 'unfortunately' when you meant 'awesomely'. I'm tired of having to clean dead squirrels out of my yard. 
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Can't wait for migration; I wanna see warblers and buntings. Saw the first hummingbird of the season the other day. Sassy Canyon Towhee.  El Paso County, Texas by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Tried the Northern Harrier again, but it's super leery of me and I was there at the wrong time of day.  El Paso County, Texas by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Better time of day.  El Paso County, Texas by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Killdeer.  Sutton County, Texas by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Black Chinned Sparrow, maybe? I kept thinking these guys were just different Juncos. I'm dumb.  El Paso County, Texas by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Red-naped Sapsucker attacking the trees.  El Paso County, Texas by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Spotted Towhee.  El Paso County, Texas by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Finally got a decent picture of a Gambel's Quail. This guy was trying to find a girlfriend so hard...  El Paso County, Texas by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Not great pictures but this awkward fellow roosted in the trees behind my office and then was sunning himself in the morning.   El Paso County, Texas by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr  El Paso County, Texas by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr
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Ghost Cactus posted:Finally got a decent picture of a Gambel's Quail. This guy was trying to find a girlfriend so hard... That's a beautiful shot. Very nice composition.
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Ghost Cactus posted:Can't wait for migration; I wanna see warblers and buntings. Saw the first hummingbird of the season the other day. I think it's just a Junco as well, but after looking at field guide photos I admit that Black-Chinned is pretty damned close looking on paper. Going off of a field guide I'd still say Junco because of the lighter chest (Sibley's show the BC Sparrow's as having consistent gray from head to leg). The notched tail also is a Junco characteristic that I don't see present in the BC Sparrow. I'm really surprised you don't get Hummingbirds and Warblers in the winter. Excellent shots by the way.
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Moon Potato posted:That's a beautiful shot. Very nice composition. Thanks! BeastOfExmoor posted:I think it's just a Junco as well, but after looking at field guide photos I admit that Black-Chinned is pretty damned close looking on paper. Going off of a field guide I'd still say Junco because of the lighter chest (Sibley's show the BC Sparrow's as having consistent gray from head to leg). The notched tail also is a Junco characteristic that I don't see present in the BC Sparrow. Thank you, and thanks for the notched tail note. I saw that and I figured it'd be diagnostic, but I wasn't sure for which species. I do think we have Black-Chinned Sparrows around here, I'll just have to look harder. Yeah, a lot of birds leave us in the winter. The vultures just go a few hundred miles east. South Texas and East Texas have neat species during the winter though.
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