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Bewick's Wren Ring-necked Duck (male) 
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Cross-posting these from my Mazatlan trip report. All of these were shot with a Sony a850 (which is full-frame) and either the Tamron 70-200mm f/2.8 or a Konica-Minolta 28-75mm f/2.8. No long glass necessary! Brown Pelican    Gull   Dove  Tern  I have no idea what these things are, but they had a wingspan of 4-5 feet and aren't afraid of humans, so I call them Death Gulls.   
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Mar 25, 2010 23:57
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Holy poo poo those birds are awesome. I also don't know what kind they are... but they certainly are the death gulls for sure. On that Bob Socko posted:On the top right, you have what appears to be the tail of a bird that is out of frame. If you cloned that out, I think it would improve this a little. Super cool placement. And maybe even crop that bottom right bird out of the frame. I dunno... it's pretty cool as is... but try it out.
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Mar 26, 2010 03:49
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Bob Socko posted:
They look like some species of frigate bird.
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Mar 26, 2010 04:05
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Here's a few taken when I was in Palm Springs last week. All taken with the Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS. I don't have a bird book handy, anyone know what this is?   Not sure what happened to all the Road Runners in this area. When I came here as a kid we'd see tons, but they're much rarer nowdays.  California Quail that decided to make my day by sitting in the perfect spot.
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Mar 26, 2010 06:26
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 It must have been freezing swimming through that.
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Mar 26, 2010 08:08
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sensy v2.0 posted:
This is awesome because it looks like he's swimming through sand.  good work.
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Mar 26, 2010 13:46
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A juvenile Cooper's hawk. 
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Mar 27, 2010 22:31
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Does anyone know what kind of bird this is? 
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Mar 27, 2010 22:39
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A quick guess is the Common Grackle, but not too sure. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Grackle/id
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Mar 27, 2010 22:44
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I'm nearly certain it's a Brewer's Blackbird. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer%27s_Blackbird Oh yeah... those damned Grackles. Could be that too. I lean blackbird because the only the head is distinguished to be a different color, where with Grackles the whole body tends to be iridescent. I could be wrong though... I'm very intermediate when it comes to bird spotting. Bahama.Llama fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Mar 27, 2010 |
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Mar 27, 2010 22:50
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You can kind of see it on its back, a lot of that colour would depend on the light but hard to say for sure.
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Mar 27, 2010 23:14
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Dread Head posted:You can kind of see it on its back, a lot of that colour would depend on the light but hard to say for sure. Yeah...you're totally right. I'm not an expert, and now thing it's a Grackle more then the black bird 
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Mar 27, 2010 23:29
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Thanks guys. I think they are Grackles too, I seem to remember someone telling me that now.
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Mar 27, 2010 23:59
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BeastOfExmoor posted:Here's a few taken when I was in Palm Springs last week. All taken with the Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS. Goldfinch!
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Mar 28, 2010 15:18
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tiercel posted:Goldfinch! Wow, I'm a retard. It's the fricken state bird where I live. The angle really threw me off apparently, but now that I look again you're right.
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Mar 29, 2010 06:15
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Dread Head posted:A juvenile Cooper's hawk. Gorgeous photo!
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Mar 29, 2010 07:25
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HELLO
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Apr 3, 2010 03:56
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Bird photography has always been an interest of mine but I've never had the gear to do anything serious. This is probably my favorite:  The last bird I took a photo of was this little guy who flew into my open dorm window a few weeks ago. Haven't been able to solidly identify him, other than that it's a warbler. We got him safely out the door after a few run in with our mirror, I'm sure he's fine though. 
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Apr 3, 2010 04:15
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There are many woodduck pictures like this woodduck picture, but this one is mine.
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Apr 4, 2010 02:14
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When all you have is a wide angle
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Apr 4, 2010 06:57
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Apr 6, 2010 00:15
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The Antipop posted:Haha, that first one is great. One leg up like that just seems hilarious. The second one looks nice, but it looks like you focused on his butt and the eyes. Could just be me though.
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Apr 6, 2010 14:25
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Well it's kind of embarrassing to be asking about this here, because you guys take pictures of really pretty birds, but I'm wondering how to set up a hide to take remote shots of pigeons. See, they have a nest under my barbecue and switch shifts every day at 10am like clockwork, so it's really easy to just set up and shoot away as they come together, coo and nuzzle, and then switch places. But they won't do it when my camera is around!  Today one of them just sat on the railing, staring at my computer for like twenty minutes. I even put pizza crust on the deck to try to make her more comfortable but she didn't care! Here's my setup:  Click here for the full 1600x1200 image.  Click here for the full 1200x1600 image. Getting a gorillapod tomorrow.  Click here for the full 1200x1600 image. So I have my 40D connected to EOS Utility and a wireless mouse, and I hide around the corner where they can't see me because I make them nervous, then when I see them doing their thing I just press the shutter button like crazy and hope something good comes out. Usually the first shot is fine, then they hear the camera flap and get really suspicious and one leaves. Here are a couple of sample shots.   (These are before any post, I don't know if I really like them yet) I'd really like to get a shot of one of them looking at the eggs. At 50mm it'd be perfectly framed for what I have in mind. But I can't actually be behind the camera to take it so it's very frustrating.
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Apr 9, 2010 17:41
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tuyop posted:Well it's kind of embarrassing to be asking about this here, because you guys take pictures of really pretty birds, but I'm wondering how to set up a hide to take remote shots of pigeons. Doesn't your 40D do remote live view? That will let you see what you're framing, and it will be quieter as well. Leave a pile of old clothes or towels out there for a few days to let the pigeons get used to it. Once they don't care about it any more, hide your camera inside it with a long cable (you can get cheap, albeit technically uncertified, USB extenders that work up to about 10 feet or so). Use remote live view on your laptop to wait for the proper moment and then shoot. [e] instead of a pile of clothes, I bet that a cardboard box with a hole in it would work just as well, though the shutter sound would be louder.
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Apr 9, 2010 18:16
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crossposting this from SAD because I've had this for ages and never did anything with it and now it actually turned out kind of nice I think
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Apr 10, 2010 11:08
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unleash the unicorn posted:crossposting this from SAD because I've had this for ages and never did anything with it and now it actually turned out kind of nice I think The following picture is nothing great, other than it's the last photo I'll be taking with my Rebel XS now that I got a 7D.  
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Apr 10, 2010 16:29
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Is this a crow or what? It had a little better than a two foot wingspan.
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Apr 10, 2010 19:53
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Probably a raven then, look like a bigger crow.
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Apr 10, 2010 21:00
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Did you hear any calls? Crows go "caw, caw" as everyone knows, but ravens have a really distinctive kind of buzzing gravely "UrrrrUK urrrrUK" sound. [e] here we go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAc2pv2iLRI
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Apr 10, 2010 21:40
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Oh yeah, it was a raven then, thanks. I wish I had a shot of it when it was still in the tree. It was about 12 feet away and at about eye level because the tree is down a steep hill from where I was standing. It flew away as I raised my camera.
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Apr 10, 2010 23:10
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 This probably belongs more in the screw ups thread then here, but I thought I'd post the one bird photo I'll ever take where I'll wish I had a wide angle on more then a telephoto. There were probably 5,000+ Snow Geese in this flock that snuck up behind me while I was taking pictures of just as many on the ground. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite as amazing as this flock. The best part about it is I have never seen a Snow Goose in my life and stumbled upon 10,000 completely by accident an hour away from where I've lived my entire life. edit: Ok, I did get some decent ones with the zoom:   
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Apr 10, 2010 23:46
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^^^ That's amazing! I found this guy chilling in the grass:  I was basically laying on the ground shooting into the sun. This had some crazy flair. I had to hold my hand over the end of the lens hood and block as much as I could just to get this:   Here are some birds, I don't know what they are: 
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Apr 11, 2010 02:16
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BeastOfExmoor posted:Good work cropping/framing these. To everyone: pictures that show where the bird is going/looking are sweet. TomR posted:
Yay action shots! Love when the bird is actually doing something. Those birds in the last picture appear to be Double-Crested Cormorants
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Apr 11, 2010 15:54
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I love this shot.BeastOfExmoor posted:She never actually got any food from the feeder. Just liked to perch on top. 
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Apr 11, 2010 16:00
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Alright these are some of the shots I've taken of the pigeons nesting on my deck for the last few weeks.   This one has been cropped so many times. I should really go back to the original to get a good crop at a reasonable resolution.   Wow, Flickr. Lay off the sharpening, eh?  And... my favorite crop. I just sent this one in for this challenge.  Anyway, I didn't see a pic-per-post limit but let me know if I broke some rule. I'm just pretty pleased with some of these even though pigeons are kind of gross and commonplace.
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Apr 12, 2010 03:50
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tuyop posted:Alright these are some of the shots I've taken of the pigeons nesting on my deck for the last few weeks.
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Apr 12, 2010 04:00
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   Captive birds...kinda cheating...
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Apr 12, 2010 04:51
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First bird with my new 7D
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Apr 13, 2010 05:28
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Malalol posted:
Not cheating  I'm not sure if they are cropped to cut out a leash/food dish/etc, but consider getting the whole body of the bird instead of cutting off it's wing/foot/etc. InternetJunky posted:First bird with my new 7D Great shot. Those fast little fuckers are always a pain in the rear end.
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