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Yes. The Gull looks like a Herring Gull to me as well based on the pale mantle, pale eye, but lack of black ring around the bill (which would make it a Ring-Billed).
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Beige posted:
I'd edit the image to illustrate what I mean but I don't know if there are any rules against that sort of thing, and I'm hesitant to do it without the permission of the photographer.
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Clarence posted:I'd edit the image to illustrate what I mean but I don't know if there are any rules against that sort of thing, and I'm hesitant to do it without the permission of the photographer. Go for it. I just played around with different crops but with no success. I lack even a basic artistic eye.
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Another trip to Oakland. Some more pictures of black-crowned night herons that don't care when you walk right up to them. 
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Casu Marzu posted:Birds. If you popped a nice vignette in there, this would be an 80s teen heartthrob hawk.
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This baby mockingbird is the grumpiest bird I think I've ever seen. IMG_9222 by SwiftTheFox, on Flickr  IMG_9227 by SwiftTheFox, on Flickr
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In two days I'm off to Newfoundland to track down Gannets and Puffins. This is my first real vacation in 3 years. Do you think I'm bringing enough gear? (the correct answer, btw, is that you can never bring enough gear) SwiftTheFox posted:This baby mockingbird is the grumpiest bird I think I've ever seen. Beige posted:I don't know what I'm doing in post
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InternetJunky posted:In two days I'm off to Newfoundland to track down Gannets and Puffins. This is my first real vacation in 3 years. Do you think I'm bringing enough gear? An updated trip report on the Sigma 120-300: The first copy I got was having some annoying issues with the optical stabilization (it was making a lot of loud clicks, and not disengaging when I turned it off), so I exchanged it for another one (B&H was very courteous and quick about it). The new one just came, and is working great. Someone asked earlier how it performs with teleconverters - here's a 100% crop with a 1.4X converter on at 420mm f/5.6 on a Nikon D90 with no post work:  And the same sparrow singing:  More distant objects were frequently turning out a bit blurry, but I'm pretty sure that's due to my camera's primitive autofocus system getting confused. I'll try it out on a tripod in manual focus mode the next time we get some sunlight up here.
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Moon Potato posted:Have a great trip. I can't wait to see your gannet and puffin photos... and I hope you have someone to help you carry all of that gear! I have the version right before the "Sport" designation. Design is the same, minus one element has an additional Florine coating. Here's some at 300 2.8, 4 and 5.6. 2.8  Hes the overexposed spot by torgeaux, on Flickr 4  Eating by torgeaux, on Flickr 5.6  Crop2 by torgeaux, on Flickr
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neckbeard posted:Cedar Waxwing from this morning I love this crop!
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EPICAC posted:I love this crop! I agree its absolutely  Cash Money
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EPICAC posted:I love this crop! EPICAC posted:I love this crop! Thanks  Kinda bummed out that the twig intersected the yellow tip of the tailfeathers though. I was actually out looking for a merlin (or some other small raptor that I had seen hanging around the park the day before) but couldn't find it. This was the first time I had seen a waxwing around all summer so it was a pleasant surprise.Spent the evening getting eaten alive by mosquitoes for these:  Juvenile Bald Eagle by tylerhuestis, on Flickr  Juvenile Bald Eagle by tylerhuestis, on Flickr  Juvenile Bald Eagle by tylerhuestis, on Flickr  Juvenile Bald Eagle by tylerhuestis, on Flickr This one was sitting in shadows and just as the sun moved into a nice position it took off  Juvenile Bald Eagle by tylerhuestis, on Flickr  Juvenile Bald Eagle by tylerhuestis, on Flickr and then I wept because I only have a 300mm lens  Bald Eagles by tylerhuestis, on Flickr
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Excellent eagle shots! I was hoping to get some like that myself, but the eagles in my area nested behind some hills that are covered in dense brambles/nettles.torgeaux posted:I have the version right before the "Sport" designation. Design is the same, minus one element has an additional Florine coating. Here's some at 300 2.8, 4 and 5.6. That's the same version I got. I really couldn't come up with a compelling reason to pay $1100 more for the Sport. Good job on getting a fairly close up shot on a gold finch, too - those always fly away before I can get anywhere near them.
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Went out for the first time with a new 70-300mm lens, was a learning experience but tons of fun to use. This guy was really deep inside a bush, sorry for the leaves. PreBerry by TCZPhotography, on Flickr  Berry by TCZPhotography, on Flickr
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I was not really expecting to find a lot of birds on this particular hike   BABIES 
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Hey everybody, My dad has been trying to get me into photography for a while now, and we both had some free time this week. These are two shots I took that I was really happy with.  Flamingo by Mallonius on Flickr  King Vulture by Mallonius, on Flickr
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Life finally quieted down and went back to stalking got the new Olympus 75-300mm lens, not the fastest but works fine in daylight and gives me a 600mm reach in a real portable format. Also playing with a radio trigger and getting the camera physically close as well. I really like the detail I got out of some of those.        
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Went out yesterday but had crappy light most of the morning and not that many birds. Experimented a little more in post with these. GBH at PtIsabel 1454 by alankrakauer, on Flickr  GBH at PtIsabel 1455 by alankrakauer, on Flickr
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Casu Marzu posted:
Very cool! Nice catch. I saw one around these parts about a year ago and I didn't have a decent camera with me. Been waiting ever since for another chance and man those suckers are scarce. Tons of great blues and cormorants, however. and lots of of these cool dudes, an Osprey: 
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Congrats on the green heron spotting, Casu Marzu. I've only seen one or two of those outside of Costa Rica. I brought my camera with me on a trip to a cousin's wedding because I knew I would be passing an eagle's nest on the way there. The nest was empty when I went by, but there were some other nice birds along the way. The people I was staying with had a pair of allen's hummingbirds in their garden   I made a slight detour to the wildlife sanctuary at the mouth of the Russian River on the way back.   
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In the quest for more mm's, I'm thinking about getting this digiscoping adapter. I just got an Eos M when they had the big sale a couple of months ago, and with the EF/EF-S to M adapter, it should work. The M is definitely not the ideal digiscoping mirrorless. I'm sacrificing easy controls and fps compared with my 60D, but I think the balance will be a lot better with the lighter body (plus I can keep my dslr for BIF and other shots). I find it funny that the digiscope adapter and the lens adapter cost almost as much as the camera + lens in spite of not having any real optics in either one.
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BetterLekNextTime posted:In the quest for more mm's, I'm thinking about getting this digiscoping adapter. I just got an Eos M when they had the big sale a couple of months ago, and with the EF/EF-S to M adapter, it should work. The M is definitely not the ideal digiscoping mirrorless. I'm sacrificing easy controls and fps compared with my 60D, but I think the balance will be a lot better with the lighter body (plus I can keep my dslr for BIF and other shots). Why not just buy any old telephoto lens and a 10 dollar adapter?
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I've already got a pretty good 300mm lens- looking for something reasonably good in low light and at least 500mm...
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Looks like a Spruce Grouse to me. Where did you shoot this?
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This was up in Glacier National Park. Whatever it was, it didn't care much about me, and just continued to eat all of those nearby berries.
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BetterLekNextTime posted:In the quest for more mm's, I'm thinking about getting this digiscoping adapter. I just got an Eos M when they had the big sale a couple of months ago, and with the EF/EF-S to M adapter, it should work. The M is definitely not the ideal digiscoping mirrorless. I'm sacrificing easy controls and fps compared with my 60D, but I think the balance will be a lot better with the lighter body (plus I can keep my dslr for BIF and other shots). What optics are you going to digiscope with? I've seen a ton of digiscoped photos but I almost never see any with a high quality look a photographer would be happy with. Usually they're by people who already own a $2000 spotting scope and don't want to spend another 2k on a DSLR and lens.
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BeastOfExmoor posted:What optics are you going to digiscope with? I've seen a ton of digiscoped photos but I almost never see any with a high quality look a photographer would be happy with. Usually they're by people who already own a $2000 spotting scope and don't want to spend another 2k on a DSLR and lens. It's a ~20 yr old Swarovski. Pretty good but not the latest generation or two of coatings. This is partly for work where magnification will be more important than quality. I have the worst luck trying to digiscope hand-held with my iphone so this has to be an improvement.
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I'm so jealous that you got one with food in its mouth. I spent twelve hours watching puffins and not a single one of the fuckers decided to bring back any food.
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HookShot posted:I'm so jealous that you got one with food in its mouth. For now, here are some Gannets: My wife and I just returned from a trip to Newfoundland. What a birding paradise that place is! One of our first stops was the Gannet colony at Cape St. Mary's. Even though there were tons of tourists in the area, we enjoyed hours and hours of the entire place to ourselves, only seeing people as we made our way back to the car each day. The only problem was figuring out which out of the 5000 shots we took we should process! I've tried for a mix of all types, and varied the processing a bit on them as well. C&C most welcome. Gannet spam incoming                       
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Awesome pics all around, those birds are just so sleek looking. Any story behind the blood on the tail feathers?
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