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pal670 posted:Anyone that can identify these birds? I am new to this sort of stuff, so have little to no knowledge, but am slowly going to learn. Give http://identify.whatbird.com/mwg/_/0/attrs.aspx a try - it's helped me in the past. The colors on the first and last images you posted reminds me of juve Bald Eagles, but it's looking too uniform for that. e: every loving time I get the first post on a new page my heart stops because I'm afraid I posted a new thread. 
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BetterLekNextTime posted:Nice western tanagers! I saw the first photo and I thought you were getting a pic of some rainforest manakin or something. Thanks! I thought they looked different than the finches I see at home but I assumed it was mating plumage. And I guess I ignored the size increase...
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pal670 posted:Anyone that can identify these birds? I am new to this sort of stuff, so have little to no knowledge, but am slowly going to learn. I assume you're in Europe by the middle one (looks like either a great tit or blue tit- I forget which), so hopefully someone else can chime in. The bill doesn't usually look like that- you found one with an uncommon but widespread bill abnormality. I'm not sure if it's bee figured out, but for some reason a lot of birds of different species, often in northern latitudes get those long decurved bills.
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pal670 posted:Anyone that can identify these birds? I am new to this sort of stuff, so have little to no knowledge, but am slowly going to learn. There are a few hawks that come close to this one, but I'd say rough-legged hawk if I had to guess. Where are you located?
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Pal670- here's a link to some research on the beak deformities- they are interested in observations of where it is occurring and which species it is affecting.
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pal670 posted:Anyone that can identify these birds? I am new to this sort of stuff, so have little to no knowledge, but am slowly going to learn. Every once in a while I glance over at my copy of Collins Bird Guide and try to figure out why I own a European bird book when I've never been to Europe. Glad to put it to use. Middle one is Great Tit. Blue tit is similar but has a line through the eye and more white above that line. I was going to say "Whatever the European equivalent of a Red-Tailed Hawk is" for the second one, but it looks most like the Common Buzzard in my book. Given that this is the most common hawk in the area it inhabits I guess my statement would have been correct. Some of the plumage details look off, but I'm assuming there's a lot of variation like our Red-Tailed Hawk and/or that it's molting. There's probably a Flickr group for Bird ID from your area if you want to get someone local though. Interestingly, Europe does have Rough-Legged Hawks (Called Rough-Legged Buzzard there, Buzzard being their word for Buteos rather than vulture), but they don't appear to make it much farther than Scandinavia this time of year. That photo also doesn't look quite right to the illustrations they list for it.
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Casu Marzu posted:These are pretty boring, but they are pretty extreme crops from the 100-400L I bought from torgeaux. I am very impressed with this lens. BeastOfExmoor posted:This photo is pretty lousy, but given the distance and rarity of the bird involved I'm happy with it. Apparently it's been a well kept secret that Northern Hawk Owls have breed in Washington in the last few years. They are only rarely reported south of the Canadian border and usually only in winter. Mr. Despair posted:Sat outside for 30 minutes without seeing much of anything worthwhile to shoot, but Mr. Robin swung by to pose for me at the end to cheer me up. Graniteman posted:Goldfinches of Mount Lassen National Park William T. Hornaday posted:
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It was like three years ago, but I think I had Andrew Zuckerman in mind when I framed it that way. I dunno.
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Thanks alot guys! Helped alot, will give that research some extra help 
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Went out with my new camera and lens this evening, this was the only photo I was really happy with. Killdeer [Charadrius vociferus] by EPICAC, on Flickr EPICAC fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jul 14, 2013 |
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New bird feeder in the yard. Sudden interest of some yellow warblers. When I setup to shoot, of course they left, so I waited, patiently, for a couple of hours, while reading. No worries. We have some great cardinals, too. This was the best shot I got. Motherfuckers. Son of a b#tch by torgeaux, on Flickr
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We saw this guy fly over, and followed him to the nearest water. Great Blue Heron by EPICAC, on Flickr
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torgeaux posted:New bird feeder in the yard. Sudden interest of some yellow warblers. When I setup to shoot, of course they left, so I waited, patiently, for a couple of hours, while reading. No worries. We have some great cardinals, too. This was the best shot I got. Motherfuckers. Cardinals are the dicks of the backyard.
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I followed some shrill screeching down the bluffs and found some black oystercatchers today  
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Cru Jones posted:Cardinals are the dicks of the backyard. Blue Jays are just as bad, if not worse.
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EPICAC posted:We saw this guy fly over, and followed him to the nearest water. Here's mine from yesterday! A much much worse shot because of lens zoom limitations, but none the less. We actually saw two separate ones that day. My fiance had never actually seen a herron and she exclaimed. "Whats that!?" 
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Marshmallow Blue posted:Here's mine from yesterday! A much much worse shot because of lens zoom limitations, but none the less. We actually saw two separate ones that day. My fiance had never actually seen a herron and she exclaimed. "Whats that!?" I was surprised at how big they are up close. I'd seen them before, but from a distance. This one was maybe 20 feet from us when it flew over, and 100 feet away when I was taking pictures, and being that close really drove home how big they are.
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'merica. bald eagle by philip painter, on Flickr
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Hell of an eagle shot. There was a good sized hawk circling outside my window at work yesterday...brought my camera today and he's nowhere to be seen. 
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Cru Jones posted:There was a good sized hawk circling outside my window at work yesterday...brought my camera today and he's nowhere to be seen. This is a classic example of Photographer's Law. Edit: BIRD!  I had this identified in critter quest a year or two ago. A juvenile Coopers Hawk? Marshmallow Blue fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Jul 16, 2013 |
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Here are some more hawks, both dirty-cheating-captivity pictures. The top one is an education bird that travels to schools!   Redtail by Icybacon, on Flickr  Swainson's Hawk by Icybacon, on Flickr
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Marshmallow Blue posted:This is a classic example of Photographer's Law. Looks like an american kestrel.
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Cru Jones posted:Hell of an eagle shot. There was a good sized hawk circling outside my window at work yesterday...brought my camera today and he's nowhere to be seen. It was in a cage at a rescue. 
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smallmouth posted:It was in a cage at a rescue. It's still a beautiful shot. Same with Apenglow's. Raptors don't stop being awesome in captivity.
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I hope I never get tired of Black-throated Sparrows El Paso County by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr At first I thought this was a sick Scaled Quail, but now I think it was just sleepy.  I came back the next day and it was gone - no predator tracks around either. El Paso County by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Blue Grosbeaks are wonderful.  El Paso County by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Am I right assuming this is a juvenile Canyon Wren because of the tan color at the edge of it's beak? Sure was inquisitive.  El Paso County by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr This Redtail (?) was having a bad time of it. I believe that's some sort of pissed-off kingbird harassing it.  El Paso County by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr  El Paso County by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Bad lighting, but I never get to see cardinals so I was happy.  Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Ctr. by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr This is already too many pictures, but Shrike!  El Paso County by Ghost Cactus, on Flickr Ghost Cactus fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Jul 17, 2013 |
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Life bird for me (not exactly an achievement when you only have 100 or so in your list) Marbled Godwit  Ghost Cactus posted:This Redtail (?) was having a bad time of it. I believe that's some sort of pissed-off kingbird harassing it. As for that cardinal shot, time to put the effort into editing because that's a pretty great shot ignoring the lighting. I bet with a bit of work you could really make that bird pop out of the picture.
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InternetJunky posted:Life bird for me (not exactly an achievement when you only have 100 or so in your list) I've never seen a Godwit, so that's neat! Also your picture rocks. Thanks for the note about the cardinal shot - I tend to be really lazy with editing. Time to get Lightroom, I guess. Ghost Cactus fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Jul 21, 2013 |
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InternetJunky posted:Life bird for me (not exactly an achievement when you only have 100 or so in your list) I've seen a lot of Godwit photos in my life, but that one is unique. I assumed it was a Wilson's Snipe at first just based on the fact that it was landing on a post. When I looked up their breeding territory to try to figure out why they weren't regular visitors in Puget Sound I was quite surprised to see central Canada rather than the usual Alaska or northern coast of Canada that most shorebirds migrate to.
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InternetJunky posted:Life bird for me (not exactly an achievement when you only have 100 or so in your list) God drat dude, well done. 
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InternetJunky posted:Life bird for me (not exactly an achievement when you only have 100 or so in your list) Yeah, this is great. scottch posted:These terns were fun. These are all really successful. Good job. I like it when bird photos include some of their surroundings for context/composition.
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Ghost Cactus posted:This Redtail (?) was having a bad time of it. I believe that's some sort of pissed-off kingbird harassing it. My wife and I went to a PYO farm last weekend, and while she was picking raspberries I was watching a Red-Tailed Hawk get mercilessly harassed by what I think was a Barn Swallow. InternetJunky posted:Marbled Godwit Chiming in to say that this is a great shot scottch posted:These terns were fun. Nice photos. Common Terns? Taken last weekend. I think that's a Barn Swallow harassing the Red-Tailed.  Red-Tailed Hawk & Barn Swallow by EPICAC, on Flickr  Red-Tailed Hawk & Barn Swallow by EPICAC, on Flickr The only bird shot from this weekend that turned out. It's not a terribly exciting species, but I like the way the rust colored patch shows up.  Gray Catbird by EPICAC, on Flickr
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EPICAC posted:
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scottch posted:Yeah, I think you're right. We get quite a few arctic terns around too, so had assumed these were as well, but the black-tipped, orangey bill seems to ID it as common. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBzwv057GPs
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I had never used a DSLR until I borrowed a D3100 a few weeks ago. Although I didn't intend it, I find that the majority of my photographs are of birds. Starling by beigefifteen, on Flickr  Seagull Glance by beigefifteen, on Flickr The first bird is a juvenile starling, right?
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