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toggle posted:Fairy wrens Fantastic images, drat. Those wrens are fairy as gently caress.
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Jan 5, 2016 06:28
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toggle posted:And this prick I can never get a decent photo of.
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Jan 5, 2016 17:32
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toggle posted:Fairy wrens
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Jan 5, 2016 17:44
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Thanks guys. Fairy wrens are native Australian birds, the male has a harem of females (the grey looking ones) and he only turns blue when its summer or mating season. The chicks stay in his harem until they're old enough to breed, then leave. The males are kicked out when they're mature enough to be his competition. This guy has 7 ladies/chicks/birds in his care at the moment. Mature females have that orange band across their face. And they live in my garden 
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Jan 5, 2016 22:55
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There's a ton of cool research on fairy wrens. Besides having the highest rate of extra-group matings of any bird, in some species parents teach their *unhatched chicks* special calls that they use to differentiate them from cuckoo chicks.
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Jan 5, 2016 23:27
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Oh really? That's so cool. I've noticed the male usually hides more than the females/baby birds, but when a magpie or predator flies by he has a different alarmed call and they all disappear into a bush and stay in silence.
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Jan 6, 2016 02:06
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I think I heard about the Fairy Wren's teaching songs to their eggs on a podcast recently. I see now that they're really neat-looking, too, and the foliage in those photos is very complementary. Up here in the wintery northern hemisphere, there's a distinct lack of foliage, which is great when you're trying to get photos of little birds. I took some today when I was out fishing. A decent bird photo is good consolation for when the fish aren't biting.  Yellow-rumped warbler, female. The males are more ornate. With a little more time I could probably get a good shot of one. They're pretty ubiquitous around here right now.  Another warbler. Unknown species. I still need to positively ID the previous warbler photos I posted, too. I feel like I can get bush shots like these more effectively with manual focus + peaking on my a6000 than I could with any of my older 9-point AF Canon DSLRs, but I was engaged with some birds at pretty close range and some birds in flight today and was hurting for effective autofocus. A used 7D is still in the back of my mind.
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Jan 6, 2016 23:29
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SMERSH Mouth posted:I think I heard about the Fairy Wren's teaching songs to their eggs on a podcast recently. I see now that they're really neat-looking, too, and the foliage in those photos is very complementary. First is a yellow-rumped warbler- probably the eastern one with the white throat although I don't know that i've tried sorting out hatch-year birds. Second is an Orange-crowned Warbler. regarding your camera musings, I guess think about whether your favorite photos are likely to be the ones when the bird is in the middle of a bunch of sticks or not...
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Jan 7, 2016 00:56
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SMERSH Mouth posted:I think I heard about the Fairy Wren's teaching songs to their eggs on a podcast recently. I see now that they're really neat-looking, too, and the foliage in those photos is very complementary. If you do want a 7D let me know. I've got two sitting in a box that I really shouldn't keep.
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Jan 7, 2016 02:59
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Echoing the love for the Fairy Wren shots. The rain drops add some really nice atmosphere to them. Some raptors from a trip to the the Mad River Slough Wildlife Area yesterday:  kite-diving-mad-river by Redwood Planet, on Flickr  owl-wide by Redwood Planet, on Flickr  grey-ghost by Redwood Planet, on Flickr  owl-dip by Redwood Planet, on Flickr  kite-flyover3 by Redwood Planet, on Flickr And some bird portraits from the Sequoia Park Zoo:      I really wish this guy had sat still for a split second in direct sunlight, but I only got the back of his head as he ran across the path. The material I shot for the BBC is up on iPlayer now for those in Britain: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06vpb86 The BBC iPlayer Proxy plugin for Chrome seems to work fine for watching from outside of the UK, too. Moon Potato fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Jan 8, 2016 |
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Jan 8, 2016 07:58
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The place where I go to photograph falcons got featured on the news the other day http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-rail-yard-becomes-roost-for-rare-falcons-1.3389863
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Jan 9, 2016 03:22
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Moon Potato posted:
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Jan 9, 2016 04:08
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This is my first post in the thread! I'm a total bird noob (with a new, low-end telephoto lens) and can't even name most of the stuff I'm shooting, but, well, I figure I need to start somewhere. I'm in S. Ontario (Toronto-ish). I welcome pointers and help with ID.     I think chickadees are great. E: Here's a Red Tailed Hawk and some Canada Geese from last weekend's excursion.  
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Jan 9, 2016 20:43
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Moon Potato posted:
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Jan 10, 2016 03:46
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a life less posted:birds toggle posted:That's unreal! Bubbacub posted:That light, those colors... I went out in the rain yesterday and followed some Red-shouldered Hawks.  rsh-poof2 by Redwood Planet, on Flickr One of them did a sneaky little glide low over the water on a freshwater pond and into the reeds, so I ran around to see if I could get a view of the kill. It took off with a decapitated coot.  rsh-coot2 by Redwood Planet, on Flickr Moon Potato fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Jan 10, 2016 |
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Jan 10, 2016 19:17
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Slightly soggy black-capped chickadee.
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Jan 11, 2016 04:02
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 White-winged Crossbill by Tyler Huestis, on Flickr White-winged Crossbill by Tyler Huestis, on FlickrI believe this is a White-Winged and not a Red Crossbill though from the angle it's kinda hard to be 100% confident- going through all the pics of them in the trees that I took, I didn't see any other Red Crossbills, unless they intermingle in flocks?  Snowy Owl by Tyler Huestis, on FlickrSame snowy as last time. Was hoping to see a male that had been spotted in the same vicinity but had no luck. Was also looking out for a short eared owl, but just found a rough-legged hawk where the SEO hangs out.
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Jan 11, 2016 05:25
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a life less posted:This is my first post in the thread! I'm a total bird noob (with a new, low-end telephoto lens) and can't even name most of the stuff I'm shooting, but, well, I figure I need to start somewhere. I'm in S. Ontario (Toronto-ish). I welcome pointers and help with ID. I'm also in the Toronto-ish area (Kitchener/Waterloo) and I need to get out and shoot more birds. And chickadees are indeed great. Welcome!
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Jan 12, 2016 22:50
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a life less posted:This is my first post in the thread! I'm a total bird noob (with a new, low-end telephoto lens) and can't even name most of the stuff I'm shooting, but, well, I figure I need to start somewhere. I'm in S. Ontario (Toronto-ish). I welcome pointers and help with ID. Those are a great start, especially the poofy birds! I finally got a decent unobstructed Brown Creeper:  gently caress you gravity, I'm a creeper Sadly I missed the shot when it pooped on me. Also found this very close parking lot crow, forgotten in the to-edit list for several months.  American Crow
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Jan 13, 2016 05:33
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Alpenglow posted:I finally got a decent unobstructed Brown Creeper: neckbeard posted:
A female American Kestrel is showing up in the Mad River Slough Wildlife Area now. I didn't spend too much time waiting for a close encounter with it, but I think that will be my goal for my next trip to that spot if she's still around.  kestrel-swoop by Redwood Planet, on Flickr My owl stakeout after that failed, but I had a Peregrine Falcon fly past me with a grebe in its talons while being chased by a flock of crows.  peregrine-grebe by Redwood Planet, on Flickr
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Jan 13, 2016 09:31
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 Two Bali Mynas, Bali, 2016 by Tobias Gustafsson, on Flickr Bali Mynas are pretty damned cool birds.
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Alpenglow posted:Those are a great start, especially the poofy birds! Ah yes the Creepers. One of my favorites. They're like mutant wrens. I've encountered them, but I've never been able to get a good shot of one outside of the shadows. This is very nice. Edit: How about more birds? Still getting a lot of yellow-rumped warblers. I haven't seen any of the more brightly-colored yellow species yet although they usually turn up this time of year.  Coot, coot..  ..(Egyptian) goose!  And one more. I walked right up on this red-shouldered hawk at the edge of a creek. They can stay very still, and I've unwittingly approached to within an arm's length on several occasions. I had to dash back outside of minimum focus distance to get this shot, and a fraction of a second later it was gliding away though the dense undergrowth, no more than 7 or 8 inches off the ground. 
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Jan 18, 2016 04:43
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 Locked Up by Trevor Zuliani, on FlickrI wasn't aware that people did studies with chickadees and was surprised to see the banding on there when I was processing.
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Jan 19, 2016 00:00
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VelociBacon posted:
There are actually a number of focal studies on chickadees, particularly in the east. There are also dozens (hundreds?) of general bird banding stations around North America that band whatever they can catch in their mistnets, plus college Ornithology courses, nestbox trails, etc. I'd guess it's from the latter category because birds in focal studies sometimes also have colored plastic bands as well as the aluminum numbered band. If you can zoom in enough to see numbers, you might be able to figure out where and when it was captured.
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Jan 19, 2016 02:01
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Went out on Sunday, was super loving cold, -22C air temp with a windchill around -30 or so, found a big flock of buntings so that was cool Snow Bunting by Tyler Huestis, on Flickr Snow Buntings by Tyler Huestis, on FlickrOn the way home I swung by the snowy owl area I've visited the past few weeks, I ended up seeing 3 different snowies, 2 on the same road maybe 2Km apart. Saw another photographer I know who told me he spotted an additional 2 a little bit north of where we were. So potentially 5 snowy owls in ~10Km radius. It was still fairly windy and the owl was perched on the top of this tree so it's not as sharp as last week  Snowy Owl by Tyler Huestis, on Flickr
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Jan 19, 2016 03:34
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I just got back from a trip out of town and the local birders are going nuts because Humboldt County has its first recorded Great Grey Owl in 15 years. It looks like there's going to be a break in the rain tomorrow morning, so I'm going to head out and see if I can find it. My Steller's Jay and Red-shouldered Hawk footage is up on PBS's site now. The segment begins around 41:50. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/natural-born-hustlers-episode-2/13696/?button=fullepisode
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Jan 22, 2016 06:01
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Why do you hate Canada, Moon Potato?quote:We're sorry, but this video is not available in your region due to right restrictions.
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Jan 22, 2016 15:59
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Moon Potato posted:I just got back from a trip out of town and the local birders are going nuts because Humboldt County has its first recorded Great Grey Owl in 15 years. It looks like there's going to be a break in the rain tomorrow morning, so I'm going to head out and see if I can find it. Nice! Very cool footage. I'm going to send this out to my class- we just talked about exploitative and manipulative signals on Tuesday. Just curious, is there a study that shows jays use the alarm calls to gain access to food?
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neckbeard posted:Why do you hate Canada, Moon Potato? BetterLekNextTime posted:Nice! Very cool footage. I'm going to send this out to my class- we just talked about exploitative and manipulative signals on Tuesday. Just curious, is there a study that shows jays use the alarm calls to gain access to food? Holy poo poo, that was an amazing Great Gray Owl encounter this morning. It caught a vole just a few feet in front of me - I had to whip out my phone and start filming with that because it was well inside my lens' minimum focal distance. I'm going to be sorting through footage and photos for a long time, but here's one to start off.  ggo-closeup by Redwood Planet, on Flickr Edit: Video of the close encounter. There was no baiting, luring or other interference with the activity of the vole or the owl here. I just had the dumb luck of setting up my tripod right next to the burrow of the morning's first active vole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx0D-G5PSbE While waiting for the owl to fly out and hunt in the long grass (as I had seen it do in friends' photographs from the previous day), I heard a vole start to nibble at the grass right in front of me. The owl immediately took notice and flew in to a closer perch. I didn't think there was any way it would go for the kill - the vole was about four feet in front of me, and a couple other birders were standing close by. Everything after that is in the video. Moon Potato fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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Jan 22, 2016 23:52
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neckbeard posted:
Moon Potato posted:Holy poo poo, that was an amazing Great Gray Owl encounter this morning. It caught a vole just a few feet in front of me - I had to whip out my phone and start filming with that because it was well inside my lens' minimum focal distance. I'm going to be sorting through footage and photos for a long time, but here's one to start off.
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Jan 23, 2016 16:42
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Haven't gone to see the falcons in like a month, arrived about 20 min after the resident Gyrfalcon showed up. She made 3 hunting attempts first attempt:  Gyrfalcon hunting by Tyler Huestis, on Flickrsecond attempt:  Gyrfalcon hunting by Tyler Huestis, on Flickr Gyrfalcon hunting by Tyler Huestis, on FlickrThird attempt was successful.  Gyrfalcon hunting by Tyler Huestis, on FlickrShe dove straight down vertically from her perch atop of the building which is a bit uncharacteristic of her, and it all happened within the span of like a second, so no one managed to get a kill shot. There weren't any ravens hanging around to steal her kill so about half the people took off after. Drove a bit east of the city, saw a bald eagle in a tree with a couple ravens - my autofocus was acting a bit weird so wasn't able to get a decent pic. One of the guys at the grain terminal had mentioned that an eagle was hanging out in the general area where I saw it as there's a couple hundred ducks still hanging around a couple roads over. Found where the short-eared owls are hunting. I went looking for them 2 weeks ago, but was looking at the wrong side of the airport that they hang around. Looked like there were about 4 or 5 - light was crap when I was there. Going to try again tomorrow if the weather is better  Short-eared Owl by Tyler Huestis, on FlickrMoon Potato posted:Because you guys keep hogging all the Snowy Owls. Found this one on a sign post by a railroad crossing - different one than I've posted the past couple weeks, it's also got the spray-painted head from being banded but I edited that out as best I could  Snowy Owl by Tyler Huestis, on FlickrClosest I've been able to get to a snowy so far:  Snowy Owl by Tyler Huestis, on Flickr
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Great falcon shots. I'm loving the composition on the first one.InternetJunky posted:I'm really glad you got a chance to see this guy! Great shot and video. The owls really don't care about what's around their lunch, do they? Another video from yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNxqo4XUHyo And some more photos:  ggo-dive by Redwood Planet, on Flickr  ggo-swoop by Redwood Planet, on Flickr  ggo-landing by Redwood Planet, on Flickr  ggo-liftoff by Redwood Planet, on Flickr
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neckbeard posted:Haven't gone to see the falcons in like a month, arrived about 20 min after the resident Gyrfalcon showed up. She made 3 hunting attempts
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InternetJunky posted:Great shots! What time did you get there? I'm heading to the terminal today and was going to try for the SEOs as well -- do you mind sharing the location of the SEOs? I've tried twice now around the airport without any luck. Thanks, I got there at 12:15 or so yesterday. Going to try a bit earlier, maybe 11-11:30 I'll be the guy with the dark blue Golf wagon. SEO's are out on the east side of the Josephburg airport - take 830 north to Josephburg and turn west onto Township Road 550 at the stop sign, first right is Range Road 215 take that north for about 1Km until you get to the 'no parking/stopping low flying aircraft' sign  Moon Potato posted:Great falcon shots. I'm loving the composition on the first one. daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
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Went out to Boundary Bay today. Happy to be getting more comfortable with tracking and such but feeling the limitations of the 300mm reach. Are these Northern Harriers? Boundary Bay 1 by Trevor Zuliani, on Flickr Boundary Bay 2 by Trevor Zuliani, on Flickr Boundary Bay 3 by Trevor Zuliani, on Flickr Boundary Bay 4 by Trevor Zuliani, on FlickrI actually apparantly got a photo of an owl (not the greatest shot) as well which is funny because I didn't realise that's what it was until I saw the image at home. Or am I seeing a hawk with it's head turned?
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VelociBacon posted:I actually apparantly got a photo of an owl (not the greatest shot) as well which is funny because I didn't realise that's what it was until I saw the image at home. Or am I seeing a hawk with it's head turned?
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Moon Potato posted:Great falcon shots. I'm loving the composition on the first one. Welp those are incredible
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Moon Potato posted:Edit: Video of the close encounter. There was no baiting, luring or other interference with the activity of the vole or the owl here. I just had the dumb luck of setting up my tripod right next to the burrow of the morning's first active vole. At first I thought the video stream was getting suck on a single frame at the beginning. Especially since there's no sound, the perfectly still owl looked like a glitch to me! Re: Stellar's Jay and Red-shouldered hawk mimicry: We have a breeding pair of RSH's on the property where I work, and they and their offspring are a fairly constant, loud presence. The other day I followed what sounded like one of them calling from a stand of trees near a trailhead, but it turned out to be a Blue Jay fussing over a flock of starlings. Blue Jay vocalizations kind of sound like Red-shouldered hawks' in general, though, so I can't really say if it was intentional mimicry to scare the starlings or not. Thanks for reading my story. Here's a making GBS threads bird.  Eastern phoebe. Check out the perfectly spherical shape of the dropping 
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