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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #120 on: September 17, 2010, 05:53:47 PM »


Juvenile male Annas

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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #121 on: September 19, 2010, 04:46:23 PM »
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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #122 on: September 25, 2010, 03:50:21 PM »
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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #123 on: October 16, 2010, 06:45:45 PM »
Early September, we were down at Grand Bend, ON and saw these two sanderlings flitting in and out of the surf edge... They were pretty calm about being photographed.  It was pretty windy out, so the two of them look a bit like they are having a bad hair day.
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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #124 on: October 17, 2010, 07:47:23 PM »
Dragonspeed....

very nice!!!!!!!!!  3 + 4 are my favorites... very very nice!
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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #125 on: October 18, 2010, 01:10:36 PM »
Quote from: marmot on October 17, 2010, 07:47:23 PM
Dragonspeed....

very nice!!!!!!!!!  3 + 4 are my favorites... very very nice!
Thanks!  It was quite the lucky opportunity.  The only real drag is that I had to lay on the damp sand to shoot :)
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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #126 on: October 20, 2010, 12:04:03 PM »
Some Backyarders from this week.

A few shots from the backyard the last couple of days. It's getting colder and the birds are more frequent at the feeder as a result.
 
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Male House Finch by DragonSpeed, on Flickr
 
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Stellar's Jay by DragonSpeed, on Flickr
 
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Stellar's Jay by DragonSpeed, on Flickr
 
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Stellar's Jay by DragonSpeed, on Flickr
 
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Black Capped Chickadee by DragonSpeed, on Flickr
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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #127 on: October 20, 2010, 12:05:05 PM »
Some more from the last couple of days.
 
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Black Capped Chickadee by DragonSpeed, on Flickr
 
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Dark Eyed (Oregon) Junco by DragonSpeed, on Flickr
 
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American Goldfinch by DragonSpeed, on Flickr
 
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Dark Eyed (Oregon) Junco by DragonSpeed, on Flickr
 
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Mrs Downy Woodpecker by DragonSpeed, on Flickr
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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #128 on: October 20, 2010, 12:37:58 PM »
Quote from: DragonSpeed on October 20, 2010, 12:05:05 PM

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Black Capped Chickadee by DragonSpeed, on Flickr
 
STUNNING!!!!!! WTF!?!?!?!??!!

wow DS..... gorgeous composition, gorgeous colors.... just wow. What a great photograph. 
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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #129 on: October 20, 2010, 01:43:56 PM »
[blush]

Thanks.

We don't get the fall leaves for long but when we do, and the sun falls on them, it makes for some good photo ops :)

Went shooting at Reifel on Sunday instead of fishing.... I think I'm  becoming a photographer that fishes sometimes instead of a fisherman that takes pictures.  Sigh.

Oh well - at least I have more good pictures once I go through them :)

I fixed the broken links on the images.  FWR doesn't like quotes in BBCODE  :'(
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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #130 on: October 20, 2010, 03:29:09 PM »
Wow.....great shots!!!
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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #131 on: November 01, 2010, 08:37:56 AM »
Reifel Bird Sanctuary
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So, here was this poor Red Tailed Hawk just soaring around minding his own business.

Red Tailed Hawk by DragonSpeed, on Flickr
 
Next thing you know a Northern Harrier decided that he didn't like Red in his area. What an arial battle ensued. The Harrier continued to dive and attack the RTH while he worked to avoid the harrassment. In shot #3 you can see the RTH has his head turned 180 to try to see the Harrier attacking from above. Classic dogfight!

RedTail vs Harrier by DragonSpeed, on Flickr
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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #132 on: November 01, 2010, 02:22:01 PM »
Nice.  Most people don't know that the red tailed hawk is the one that makes the "eagle" call that is so often used in westerns (or pretty much whenever somebody wants to add ambience to an outdoors scene).

Harriers are awesome... lots out in that area too, especially above the reeds on the northern side.. I've seen loads there.

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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #133 on: November 01, 2010, 04:36:25 PM »
Quote from: marmot on November 01, 2010, 02:22:01 PM
Nice.  Most people don't know that the red tailed hawk is the one that makes the "eagle" call that is so often used in westerns (or pretty much whenever somebody wants to add ambience to an outdoors scene).

Harriers are awesome... lots out in that area too, especially above the reeds on the northern side.. I've seen loads there.
Those cursed Harriers always seem to sit just too far out there for my 400.  I always wait and hope in anticipation that one will come in for a run at the dyke looking for vole or something. 

Once, I got a decent shot of one "fairly close":
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Re: 2010 Birds
« Reply #134 on: November 03, 2010, 09:55:06 AM »
Oh nice shot!

I wish I had autofocus and lens stabilization on these old primes I'm shooting with... makes it very difficult to get shots like that even with high iso values and fstop all the way down.  Getting them in flight is hard enough as it is!
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