The Sunday BIRD Volume 8, Issue 34 February 10, 2013

Good Morning All,

Little late getting on this week, sorry. .

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Cheers and Chirps,

Richard Pavek

SHENmaker@MSN.com

My photo/essay blog is at: www.RichardsBirdBlog.com

Gallery at www.pbase.com/shenmaker

Thanks for looking, comments welcome,

Richard

The Hawk in flight has nice sharp detail. I also like the shot of the bird looking back into the space behind it--All three are nice shots with #2 my favourite.

Cheers,

John.

This family of Australian Noisy Miners has been raising all kinds of mischief in our neighbourhood these past few days. They've been swooping and diving on other birds, fighting and chasing one another and making a whole lot of noise. They even took exception to me being in the backyard with the camera

All shots raw using E-5, ZD300mm, hand held, PP in LR4, and resized to 60%

Peter

Very nice indeed

Shot #4 is a stunner. Nice work

quite pleased with some of my stuff from the last week or so
All Panny G5 and 100-300

Blue tit

Feral Pigeon

Pheasant

Mallard

Long-tailed Tit

Starling

Oystercatcher

Purple Sandpiper

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My Galleries are at
http://picasaweb.google.com/trevorfcarpenter

I went back to Rutland Water yesterday to have a decent test of my new kit. The weather was dull and the light was awful all day though, so I ended up shooting high-ISO. It was a little quiet too, I guess I have to wait a few more months before things really pick up.

I saw something amusing though, a female pheasant going for the small-bird feeders and failing hard!

It's an animated .gif. If linking fails, it's here http://imageshack.us/a/img401/6389/67016606.gif

I grabbed a few more shots while I was there too...

wow Trevor, great shots!  The sandpiper is my favourite.

Peter

Excellent work Pvt C

The DPR viewer displays the first shot's  animation - poor bird 

The other shots are real nice too, especially #2. Which lens are you using?

Peter

A beautiful bird well taken.

Richard you seem to have an endless supply of raptors there in CA.

Peter

Fogg dam is a birder's paradise less than an hour out of town.  Usually it is teeming at this time of year, but it's been an exceptionally dry summer, so there wasn't the usual smorgasbird(!) yesterday.  Nice to see the azure kingfisher though.

and a darter

It's the 100-400 L

It's not strictly a birding setup as I was thinking more about flexibility for the airshows too. A perfect birding lens in the same price range is the 400 f5.6L, or possibly the 300 f4L and 1.4 tc (which is stabilised).

Along with the high ISO performance (the robin was shot at 1600!!), it's the lens choices that made me leave Olympus.

This Blue Jay seemed puzzled by the flower petal floating in the bird bath.  I think he's a juvenile bird because of the darker feathers on the breast.

Shot with a Sony A77 and Sigma 120-400mm lens at 160mm (240mm).

Comments, questions and critique always welcome.

My personal photo journal ...   http://preferredaperture.blogspot.com/

Most excellent shots.  Do you have a blog or post somewhere that describes how you get these shots?  What lens?  Shoot hand held of from a monopod?

Thanks for posting.

I posted some photos of this flock in December.  The tide was right tonight and sure enough they were there.  I only had my recently acquired second-hand fz50 with me.  It's no match for the 50-200 (or even the kit 40-150) but it coped pretty well.

Hi,
I shoot only Olympus, mostly with the ZD300 plus 1.4 extender
Check my blog for posts of bird photography www.RichardsBirdBlog.com

Richard

Nice series of images, all finely detailed and nicely captured.

Andrew

Nice work, like the next to last the best,

Richard

Nice series.  Really like the sandpiper, nicely framed and the lighting is excellent.

Andrew