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dupersaurus posted:The hummingbirds finally found my feeder so I stuck my GoPro on it and surprisingly they weren’t bothered by it. It’s been a hoot watching them. Hang around in person. Takes just a few minutes and they'll ignore you. I sit and watch mine in the mornings and the buzz around me inches away, especially if I wear red.
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torgeaux posted:Hang around in person. Takes just a few minutes and they'll ignore you. I sit and watch mine in the mornings and the buzz around me inches away, especially if I wear red. Yeah while I was setting the camera up one swooped in and watched from a couple feet away 
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Saw this guy today and thought of you, thread.
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So, you want to try to capture that great morning light with the hummingbirds? gently caress you, the setup is too hard to get them in focus. Some good stuff anyway, including the effect of forcing the electric shutter at 1/10,000 of a second. Humming Bird in Flight Electric Shutter by B. B., on Flickr Sunrise Hummer by B. B., on Flickr Backlit2 by B. B., on Flickr Into the Sun by B. B., on Flickr
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torgeaux posted:So, you want to try to capture that great morning light with the hummingbirds? gently caress you, the setup is too hard to get them in focus. Some good stuff anyway, including the effect of forcing the electric shutter at 1/10,000 of a second. Hummingbirds are so past tense. The future is octahedrabirds! Great shots!
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I found a beautifully vibrant crow just hanging down at the beach.
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Your robin is a cardinal!
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I haven't posted in ages, shameful. Here are some birds.   
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toggle posted:I haven't posted in ages, shameful. This is great! I love seeing multiple subjects in bird photos, and this has so many!
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my cat is norris posted:Your robin is a cardinal! duh why did my brain type that. Thanks for the catch!
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blue squares posted:This is great! I love seeing multiple subjects in bird photos, and this has so many! Thanks! They were really hard to photograph since they fly very fast. Crazy thing is, is that there would be a flock/swarm flying past every 20 seconds or so. Just groups of 50+ birds every 20 seconds. Unreal.
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This one is really cool.
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I bought a new-to-me lens, a really nice one - a 300mm F/4 I've long wanted specifically for small birds in trees. It arrived yesterday and I took it to work today. During my breaks I went for a few walks to try it out. It's better than I hoped. I am very very very happy with these shots. Red Wattlebird  New 300mm Lens 02 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrRainbow Lorikeet  New 300mm Lens 06 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrStriated Pardalote. I'd been hearing several males calling along the path from the carpark to my office, and this pair came out to oblige my wish to see them.  New 300mm Lens 08 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr New 300mm Lens 11 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr New 300mm Lens 12 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr New 300mm Lens 16 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrBarking Owl  New 300mm Lens 22 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrThe rapidly-increasing group (no collective noun has been established for this species) of Currawongs getting their nerve up to harass the owls, two trees over.  New 300mm Lens 23 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr
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drat, 9am bowling? I’d definitely join.
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Execudork those are nice, congrats on the lens. Nice mood in these. nthing that I love this Some recent photos...  Gyuto Crow-9070  Alvarado Stellers Jay-9313  Alvarado Cal Towhee-9288 Hermit warblers are one of my favorite warblers here in the Bay Area but I've had almost no experiences with them a) in good light b) bright male plumage c) not 65 feet up in a tree. Today was a treat  Creekside Hermit Warbler-9414  Creekside Hermit Warbler-9430  Creekside Hermit Warbler-9469  Creekside Hermit Warbler-9425
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The ducks are back from their summer vacation! I also found this guy acting like he was the king of town. (He is in my heart) 
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BetterLekNextTime posted:Execudork those are nice, congrats on the lens. Thank you! And congrats on the Warbler, those are great. I spent last week dogsitting, which included two hour-long walks per day with a pair of big black dogs. My morning routine benefited from their eagerness to get out the door before 7:00am, and I decided this lens is a great excuse to make the change stick. I'm gonna try to go for a walk to the nearest bird-friendly areas (5 minute walk either N or S from my front door) every Monday morning. And, to broaden and strengthen some habits, I want to edit & upload the morning's shots on Mondays after work. This morning, I saw only very common birds. But any bird is a good bird if I can get it in focus as far as I'm concerned.  Monday Morning Walk_03 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr Monday Morning Walk_04 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr Monday Morning Walk_05 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr Monday Morning Walk_06 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr Monday Morning Walk_11 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr Monday Morning Walk_12 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrThe internal focusing of this lens is a great feature. Reviews of the lens on PentaxForums.com often complain about the autofocus, and that it struggles to get in focus sometimes, and will hunt all the way through from infinity to minimum focus and back again before getting close, or sometimes just never getting to in-focus. I'm seeing some of that with this lens, but I'm coming from only ever using manual focus on my longer lenses (because my 500mm is from the late 1960's and my Sigma 100-300mm is the essence of el-cheapo) so any autofocus is happy magic to me. And that IF means I can fine-tune the focus manually without taking my eye away from the viewfinder or my fingers away from where they sit to support the lens. A little twist to check the focus and this lens gets even better at what I bought it to do: small birds in complex fore-and-background environments. Larger birds, and those out in the open, are just a bonus.
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Some bird pictures from the San Diego Zoo. White Fronted Bee Eater by Sneeze Party, on Flickr  White Fronted Bee Eater by Sneeze Party, on Flickr  Northern Carmine Bee Eater by Sneeze Party, on Flickr  Northern Carmine Bee Eater by Sneeze Party, on Flickr
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Finally got the covid and it has been really rainy here so I went shooting only once in September  Here's a jay from yesterday:  Eurasian jay by Eero Vuorinen, on Flickr
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Midnight the neighborhood beach chicken, harasser of squirrels, wild turkey respecter    
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majour333 posted:Midnight the neighborhood beach chicken, harasser of squirrels, wild turkey respecter I need more details about what happens when an uppity chicken meets a for real wild turkey! Is Midnight only alive because the turkey didn't really care?
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She runs like hell lol. The houses where Midnight roams abut a cemetery where the turkeys raise their young, so they pass through midnight's neighborhood maybe four times a day. She runs screaming in the mornings, and in the evenings they kinda silently ignore each other. It's a parade of two to four adults and up to a dozen young, though I heard it was 8 or 9 lately.
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Went for a walk and a longer walk in the same place, the overcast ones are from Thursday 14/9 and the sunny ones from Sunday 24/9  Eastern Great Egret  Little Black Cormorant  Australian Wood Ducks   White Faced Herons    Pacific Black Ducks and babies     Australian Ravens or Little Ravens   Red Wattlebirds  Swoopy Boy just prior to Swoop season     Sulphur Crested Cockatoos love pine nuts   New Holland Honeyeater  Australasian Swamphen Ravens and Cockatoos? They let me walk inside minimum focus distance and didn't give a poo poo The Herons? Walk inside 30m of them and they start walking away, make eye contact with them from that distance and they gently caress off at speed. Those eyes look like they know things about me no mortal bird should.
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NTRabbit posted:Those eyes look like they know things about me no mortal bird should. 
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The Eastern Curlews are back   Tern v Puffer fish   Bonus video: https://vimeo.com/870908699
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Those are some pretty gosh darn amazing shots  I'm finally just about getting a handle on things after recently switching to mirrorless, and managed to get this beautiful Black Kite today. 
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Deck birds. The Stellar's Jays are always a pain to shoot, they're so chicken. So, I wore a tan jacket with a camo hat and sat 15 feet away yesterday, and they could care less. I had always thought they were digging thru the seed for the sunflower seeds, but no, it's the whole corn kernels they go for. They'll empty that feeder, which holds 4 cups, in 5 minutes.  Glare by B. B., on Flickr Attitude by B. B., on Flickr Digging by B. B., on Flickr
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very good birds. Middle one made me laugh out louder
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torgeaux posted:
I rather like this one for motion.
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The colors on the sparrow photos are great.
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I like the owl. Cool idea!
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