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Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:34 pm

This small fellow chirped loudly enough that I finally spotted him amongst the pine needles.

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0461.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0470.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0493.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0495.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0496.jpg

etilena · Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:09 pm

You know what kind of bird that is? Was this at 300mm? I never had luck with birds staying still enough for me to snap them, but then again, 200mm is the longest reach I have on my lenses.

Pax-UX · Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:20 pm

These are really nice photos! Did you have to touch them up in photoshop or is it all in camra?

Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:25 pm

looks like a finch of some kind.

Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:55 pm

The subject is a very small yellow songbird. It might be a Least Flycatcher or a Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher, but I'm no bird expert.

All of those shots were at 300mm on a 1.6 FOVCF camera (480mm equivalent field of view). I shot them using the EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM lens that I got a week ago. The lens and camera model are included in the EXIF information embedded in the file, along with the actual focal length that was zoomed in.

What you see is the untouched 1936x1288 "Small JPEG" output from the Canon EOS 40D. Most of those files are around 700KB, which fits under the 1MB limit for my Photobucket account. The camera is simultaneously saving a 3888x2592 RAW file with 14-bit color. Those files are 14MB each. With a bit of patience, they can be converted to TIF or JPEG or another format to be edited and shared, but I'd have to use maximum compression to get a JPEG of that resolution down to under 1MB.

dragmor · Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:03 pm

SpotTheCat wrote:
looks like a finch of some kind.

Finch or a starlet, but I've not seen those colours before.

JBI: You make me want to upgrade my camera.

Pet bird Peetree, Minature Scarlet breasted parrot (size of a budgie), at 19yrs looking scruff (normal lifespan 11 years), now dead

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e377/ ... 000064.jpg

Kookaburra waiting for his dinner
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e377/ ... 030338.jpg

Tawney Frogmouth also waiting for his dinner
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e377/ ... 030310.jpg

A pair of noisy Rainbow Lorikeets
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e377/ ... 030318.jpg

My Xmas dinner if they didn't disappear every year before xmas and come back around new years, its like they know.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e377/ ... 030330.jpg

danny e. · Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:32 pm

dragmor wrote:
JBI: You make me want to upgrade my camera.

he doesnt make you want to drink more beer?

Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:51 pm

Here are a couple more that may show different angles.

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0508.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0460.jpg
No, I wasn't looking down on the bird in the tree in that last one. I was still shooting up from the ground. The bird was hanging almost upside down as he hunted a bug of some sort.

Here's a 1600x1200 crop from the center of one of the images. It's more in focus at the feet than at the head, but it shows the underside pretty clearly.
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... _0494a.jpg

king_kilr · Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:28 pm

The blurry pines in the background look awesome to me.

liquidsquid · Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:52 pm

JustAnEngineer wrote:
This small fellow chirped loudly enough that I finally spotted him amongst the pine needles.

Birds this time of year are tough to ID, thanks to winter plumage. I think it is a female Baltimore Oriole, which is more likely I think given the shape.
http://www.birdperch.com/galldetq.asp?sp=01930007

The males are spectacular, and devastate our apple blossoms.

The pity is I love birding, but I have no camera suitable. My R1 is for landscapes and stills.

-Mark

jobodaho · Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:27 pm

It's too cold for looking for birds around my parts, but if I get a chance (or if anyone else would like too) I will start a winter subject thread.

Someday I will attempt a true birding expedition, maybe next spring.

Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:39 pm

For size scale, the pine needles grow up to six to nine inches long.

I guessed flycatcher because of the two white bands on the wings.
http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/688/ov ... tcher.aspx
http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/687/_/ ... tcher.aspx

Jobodoho-- I'd love to see some winter weather photographs, but with temperatures above 75°F and humid this week, we've been running air conditioners in this part of the world. I don't have any snowy landscape photos to contribute. We're supposed to get some freezing overnight temperatures this weekend, but snow and ice are unlikely.

Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:48 pm

I spent less than ten minutes shooting these photographs this afternoon, but by the time that I finished, I was grinning. It was a slight challenge to get the right focus, since the camera was prone to focusing on branches or needles in the foreground (and this lens doesn't have full-time manual focusing like my other two do). It was also a challenge to re-acquire the small bird in the frame when it flitted from one branch to another every few seconds. Of course, there were the challenges of the bird moving behind the branches so that it was obscured, and most frustratingly, standing right out on a limb where I could get it in sharp focus, but facing the wrong way.

Having said all of that, it was easier to take the photographs than it was for me to spot the creature in the first place.

slavik6 · Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:18 pm

Got some nice hummingbird shots in late summer.

http://www.nathanslavik.com/images/DSC_5008.jpg

http://www.nathanslavik.com/images/DSC_5059.jpg

http://www.nathanslavik.com/images/DSC_5062.jpg

jobodaho · Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:54 pm

slavik6 wrote:
Got some nice hummingbird shots in late summer.

http://www.nathanslavik.com/images/DSC_5008.jpg

http://www.nathanslavik.com/images/DSC_5059.jpg

http://www.nathanslavik.com/images/DSC_5062.jpg

I would love to see some hummingbirds, although I could see myself having my patience tried trying to photograph those guys.

mattsteg · Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:52 am

Chickadee from thanksgiving (sized down by half or so, linear)

And a nuthatch that wasn't kind enough to approach very close or sit anywhere interesting, so all I have are 100% crops like this:

I really should have not neglected to flash them

Killed my shadow detail.

jobodaho · Sat Dec 15, 2007 2:54 pm

Great shots mattsteg! Are those with the 300mm with a TC?

mattsteg · Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:03 pm

jobodaho wrote:
Great shots mattsteg! Are those with the 300mm with a TC?

Those are without TC, just the bare 300. I put on a TC a bit later, but the birds didn't cooperate with attractive poses (and in one sequence I really, really should have put on a strobe as I caught a chickadee breaking open a seed but the lighting just wasn't there so th e photo sucked - shade + backlight ==

)

On another note I should really adopt some sort of convention to differentiate TC with non-TC shots via exif. I try to shoot a black frame when switching to remind myself for my records, but that's kinda hit and miss.

paulWTAMU · Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:07 pm

Ah man, mattsteg, do you have a link to a full sized hi-rez version of that nuthatch? That'd be a killer desktop if it was a bit bigger.

cheesyking · Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:15 pm

http://www.parrotlink.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=561

My mother-in-law took that... not a native of Northampton, took her three days to catch it :lol:

and Mattsteg... those two photos are spot on, I wish I could do that sort of thing with a camera!

mattsteg · Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:23 pm

paulWTAMU wrote:
Ah man, mattsteg, do you have a link to a full sized hi-rez version of that nuthatch? That'd be a killer desktop if it was a bit bigger.

Unfortunately no, that's a 100% crop as the nuthatches were hanging a bit further out than the chickadees. When they moved closer and/or I had a TC on they didn't provide much in the way of attractive poses/angles.

paulWTAMU · Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:53 am

Oh well. Still a nice photo. figured it couldn't hurt to ask

quock · Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:01 am

Not sure what bird it is, but these appeared some ten years ago every summer. It seems that a zoo in the neighbourhood closed down and some of birds that were capable of surviving here in the Netherlands were released:

http://kcl.kwokkie.net/particle/img/img0000020.jpg

gerbilspy · Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:20 am

JustAnEngineer wrote:
This small fellow chirped loudly enough that I finally spotted him amongst the pine needles.

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0461.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0470.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0493.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0495.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0496.jpg

This may be a female American Goldfinch.
Beautiful pictures!

cheesyking · Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:25 am

quock wrote:
Not sure what bird it is, but these appeared some ten years ago every summer. It seems that a zoo in the neighbourhood closed down and some of birds that were capable of surviving here in the Netherlands were released:

http://kcl.kwokkie.net/particle/img/img0000020.jpg

I'm no expert but I think that's an Amazon of some sort

Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:23 pm

Does this .pdf help any with the identification of my small yellow and olive neighbor?
http://www.mobilebayaudubon.org/Checklist.pdf

Sun Dec 23, 2007 1:19 pm

I shot these this morning in my parents' back yard:
White Ibis:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0744.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0752.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0768.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0775.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0781.jpg

This was in the front yard:
Male cardinal:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0624.jpg
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee12 ... G_0637.jpg

Lucky Jack Aubrey · Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:39 pm

Here is a picture of a Caribbean Brown Pelican I shot yesterday morning in Montego Bay, Jamaica. It's going after a fish. It was a fairly difficult shot, so I didn't get zoomed in quite as close as I wanted.

Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:44 am

I'm getting better with manual focusing:

Click for larger image.

Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:48 am

Click for larger images.

Very colorful:

Not so much:

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