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Captain Charisma posted:That angle is wild, was he down low or were you up high?  Then it moved into some shrubbery near by and I kind of tracked it down and it was near on eye level  Then the photo I originally posted where it's maybe like, 5 ft above my eye level? It was pretty cool to track down the soaring hawk into these different spots
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Red tails love standing on posts and small trees and such at around eye level. They tend to not be too bothered by humans, as long as you aren't standing like 10 feet away and staring directly at them.
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Feb 7, 2022 20:30
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This is my first time, be gentle. I know they're not very exciting, but I always like American Robins. The branches made this shot busy as poo poo and I'm getting used to my new Fujinon XF 90mm. Great lens, but had a little trouble getting focus right on the bird with a more open aperture. 
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Feb 9, 2022 01:57
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And some Mallards... I like the one with the duck's head coming up because you can see the surface tension of the water. 
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Feb 9, 2022 02:27
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Birds in branches is pretty challenging. I don't really have a trick besides just trying to be mindful of the composition and not shooting when there's obviously something in the way of the bird, or waiting for the bird to emerge to the front/edge of the bush. I will say the eye-detect AF sometimes helps, although there are times I have to nudge it into roughly the right focus. First time out for a week or two...  Wildcat Wrentit-1832 on FlickrThis one was in shady winter woodland and I can not figure out the color temp  Wildcat Junco2-1826 on Flickr
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Feb 9, 2022 18:10
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It is said among my birding group that we'd be super excited about seeing robins and mallards (and starlings) if they weren't so ridiculously common. They're all very pretty birds! (they are not house sparrows, which have no redeeming characteristics whatsoever)
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Feb 9, 2022 18:26
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As a non-American I love seeing American robins because they're unusual and exciting to me  On a holiday to New York I saw a pair of cardinals in Central Park and got extremely excited, which a local guy sitting on a bench nearby found very funny.
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:It is said among my birding group that we'd be super excited about seeing robins and mallards (and starlings) if they weren't so ridiculously common. They're all very pretty birds! (they are not house sparrows, which have no redeeming characteristics whatsoever) Ya - I’m not much of a wildlife photographer so they make good practice. They’re used to humans and they don’t spook too easily. I originally went out to see if I could get a half decent shot of the Bald Eagle that’s been hanging out on top of this structure by the water. There’s a park near me that all the birding nerds go to that I should check out. I bet there’s more interesting stuff there.
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BRAKE FOR MOOSE posted:It is said among my birding group that we'd be super excited about seeing robins and mallards (and starlings) if they weren't so ridiculously common. They're all very pretty birds! (they are not house sparrows, which have no redeeming characteristics whatsoever) It just makes you have to work harder to get standout photos of them, the right pose and light will do wonders for the common beauty's, even house sparrows. 
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Feb 9, 2022 20:52
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Here are some backyard birds. Not the best quality because all of these photos are taken through closed (and dirty) windows on a crop sensor camera. Red-bellied woodpecker likes suet.  Northern mockingbird likes suet too.  Carolina wrens also like suet.  And red-tailed hawks like squirrel.   We feed all the birds.
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Good stuff everyone! Here's some from my recent outings: Western Bluebirds.  Resident Harrier on the prowl.  Red Shouldered Hawk eyeing me  Pretty sure this is a Yellow Rumped Warbler 
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Feb 10, 2022 18:41
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Fascinating that this is also a Yellow Rumped Warbler - The book I'm reading right now (Kingbird Highway) talks about how in the early 70s, the Myrtle, Audubon's, Mexican black-fronted, and Goldman's merged into the same form 
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Slotducks posted:Fascinating that this is also a Yellow Rumped Warbler - The book I'm reading right now (Kingbird Highway) talks about how in the early 70s, the Myrtle, Audubon's, Mexican black-fronted, and Goldman's merged into the same form I looked in my field guide and online for a bit and I couldn't find a better fit than yellow rumped. The one I captured was the palest one I've ever seen. Others I have seen before like below are more like your capture. 
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Oh I didn't mean it passive aggressively! I meant that they're both Yellow Rumped and that's neat!
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jarlywarly posted:It just makes you have to work harder to get standout photos of them, the right pose and light will do wonders for the common beauty's, even house sparrows. If I were a richer man I would buy a 70-200 2.8 just to shoot sparrows  House sparrow by Eero Vuorinen, on Flickr House sparrow by Eero Vuorinen, on Flickr
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Sorbus posted:If I were a richer man I would buy a 70-200 2.8 just to shoot sparrows Lovely work, they are really charismatic birds, we have 2-3 breeding pairs and big rabble of them around the garden, they are always chasing each other around, splashing in the bird baths, and then in summer they have huge communal dust baths.
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jarlywarly posted:It just makes you have to work harder to get standout photos of them, the right pose and light will do wonders for the common beauty's, even house sparrows. nice! lots of song sparrows on the coast around here. i took this shot last week: 
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Slotducks posted:Oh I didn't mean it passive aggressively! I meant that they're both Yellow Rumped and that's neat! Haha I didn't interpret it that way. It's definitely neat how different they are but still the same species. I was just surprised on how pale it was that I couldn't figure it out at first so I had to research it to figure it out.
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Can I get in on the hot sparrow action? 
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Sparrow!  Miller Knox shoreline white crown-2424 on FlickrAnd some other lame birds  Miller Knox Egret fish-2661 on Flickr Miller Knox oysterrcatcher limpet-2139 on Flickradorable little cackling goose  Miller Knox cackling goose-2915 on FlickrSlotducks posted:Fascinating that this is also a Yellow Rumped Warbler - The book I'm reading right now (Kingbird Highway) talks about how in the early 70s, the Myrtle, Audubon's, Mexican black-fronted, and Goldman's merged into the same form There's a lot of interest in this among biologists. The various ice ages caused the populations to become separated and then when the ice age lifts they come back together. Yellow-rumps are on the edge of maybe being separate enough retain their differences, and maybe not. Super interesting if you are an evolutionary biologist trying to understand what species are and how they form, but frustrating to birders who want a stable taxonomy.
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BetterLekNextTime posted:Sparrow! You might want to check your white balance.
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jarlywarly posted:You might want to check your white balance. Thanks, I just checked and somehow it got shifted to Tungsten. I've noticed I'll occasionally bump the drive on my R6 to timer or some other setting when my camera is swinging around. Maybe I knocked it off AWB too.
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BetterLekNextTime posted:Thanks, I just checked and somehow it got shifted to Tungsten. I've noticed I'll occasionally bump the drive on my R6 to timer or some other setting when my camera is swinging around. Maybe I knocked it off AWB too. If you shot these in raw you should be able to easily correct the white balance in post. I make this mistake all the time when I go between my studio lights at work and outdoors.
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Yeah, it was a whole day's photos so I was able to fix them all with a couple of clicks in Lightroom. I just haven't gotten around to re-exporting any of them.
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Got a shot of a great grey shrike taking a dump  Hope I have time to edit and upload it tonight.
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A few lesser redpolls who were feasting on a tree outside my front door the other morning (and were a lot less dopey than these pictures make them look): Lesser redpolls by Owlkill, on Flickr Lesser Redpolls by3 Owlkill, on Flickr Lesser redpolls by Owlkill, on Flickr Lesser redpolls by Owlkill, on Flickr Lesser redpolls by Owlkill, on Flickr
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Finally I can call myself a bird photographer: Great grey shrike by Eero Vuorinen, on Flickr
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Me, I like my yard bird juncos. Looking to the future by B. B., on Flickr Just Chillin by B. B., on Flickr
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 Point Molate spotted sandpiper-3244 on FlickrI tried some slow shutter speed shots of the sandpiper in the surf but nothing really came out very well. That's a fidgety bird. Today in my neighborhood:  Gyuto Song Sparrow Currant-3463-2 on Flickr
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I think I saw him at the summer olympics in the 100m butterfly
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I'm always in awe when someone takes *very* good photos of very common birds like Mallards and Swans. Kudos! Great shots!
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This is a complete shot in the dark, but I've asked everyone I know and nobody can come closer than a bird who only lives in central asia. I live in the thumb area of Michigan, between a forested swamp and a lake. Today I saw, and nearly took a photo of, a large navy blue bird with speckled wings and a long thin and blunt yellow-orange beak. He was a dull navy color, no aqua, no petroleum sheen. Had speckles of maybe white and brown on the wing. Was the size of a flicker, maybe a bit smaller. Was perched where they often do so the size comparison was easy to make. His beak was long and round at the end, no hook, no point. Vaguely crow shaped, vaguely flicker shaped Must have been a vagrant, or a migrant, it was no common bird feeder bird, I'd never seen one like this in my life.
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If you want to cast a wider net and ask at https://old.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbird/ My first guess is a weird version of a European Starling but it's probably not that.
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Slotducks posted:If you want to cast a wider net and ask at https://old.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbird/ Thank you, posted it. Not spiky or small enough to be a starling. Also I went through my whole little NA bird audobon book and there is no one like this MF Dejan Bimble fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Mar 3, 2022 |
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Dejan Bimble posted:This is a complete shot in the dark, but I've asked everyone I know and nobody can come closer than a bird who only lives in central asia. Definitely larger than a robin? There are a few Central/South American thrush species that could fit that description and that's where my mind goes to with that beak description and hanging out with flickers. Can't think of anything in North America that'd be medium-to-large, blue, and with yellow beaks.
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we had a big thaw here last week, and there were a few seagulls foraging in the marsh area of this trail, where I never really see them on the ground. the crows were not having it. managed this halfway decent shot with an old adapted pentax 150mm, which has the best focus ring i've ever used
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I’ve just found a rather quiet people-less location that is just full of small birds. It’s heaven 
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