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Canon 100-300L egrets with babies (pics)
- Thread starter Daniella68313
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I went to Palo Alto today and I got too many too show them all here
but here are some of the photos. Egrets are now nesting with
hungry babies to feed. Hard to beleive that they will become such
beautiful birds when you see them as baby
the full gallery. I never had so many keepers in one dayall
taken in Palo Alto, California.
http://www.pbase.com/zylen/new_work&page=4
http://www.pbase.com/zylen/new_work&page=5
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Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
I am sorry I missed you guys. I didn’t get there until maybe 4:30 or so and the only photographer I saw was some grumpy old woman with a 10D and a 300mm f/2.8L non-IS with a 2x TC. Really, last Sunday was the day to be at High Island. The cold front on Sat knocked down a LOT of warblers and I got tons of nice shots of them. I didn’t see a single one this past Sunday. The spoonbill chicks were a lot bigger and more visible this week though. It looks like you got some really nice shots. My biggest problem right now is that I am WAAAAAY backlogged on my sorting and post processing. I have literally thousands of pictures from the past month and a half or so that I haven’t even had a chance to look at, much less post process. I only got to look through a few of my High Island pictures last night. I guess I had better get cracking LOL.
Greg
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Greg
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I’m glad you fixed the link, that shot turned out to be my favorite one. I was really amused by the frenzy that the birds went into when they thought they were about to get fed. They were just biting at each other’s beaks and tapping on the mothers’ beaks… That place really is neat and I am glad I finally made it out there these past two weeks.
Greg
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Greg
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Jason Hutchinson
Veteran Member
Ahhh, that was Saturday. Sorry. I got them mixed up as we drove back Sunday.
I'd love to know if a few Egrets in particular survived the night that were being pecked to death the day before. In particular there was a completely dead tree right in front that had one that was hanging on for it's life when we were there. I'll send a photo later and perhaps you have a more up to date photo of the nest.
PeaceFrog wrote:
?My biggest
http://66.180.118.166/misc/houston_rookery/
were the only batch of images I've even had time to crop in the past few months. I am organizing/deleting photos and I just got up to July of last 2003. Basically, I can choose to organize, upload, or edit photos or I can go shoot more. I always end up just shooting more and don't get to REALLY look at them for months sometimes.
Jason
I'd love to know if a few Egrets in particular survived the night that were being pecked to death the day before. In particular there was a completely dead tree right in front that had one that was hanging on for it's life when we were there. I'll send a photo later and perhaps you have a more up to date photo of the nest.
PeaceFrog wrote:
?My biggest
Wow, that description matches me perfectly. Those few images I posted here:
http://66.180.118.166/misc/houston_rookery/
were the only batch of images I've even had time to crop in the past few months. I am organizing/deleting photos and I just got up to July of last 2003. Basically, I can choose to organize, upload, or edit photos or I can go shoot more. I always end up just shooting more and don't get to REALLY look at them for months sometimes.
Jason
I probably have some shots of the nest if I can ever dig through them all and pick them out. I almost went on Saturday. I had even planned it all out but I got tied up with things and didn’t make it until Sunday afternoon. It would have been nice to be there at the same time you guys were.
Greg
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Greg
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Jason Hutchinson
Veteran Member
It's possible Dave didn't want to be shown up by "the human tripod" and that's why he didn't call you. 
FredG was there too. I was having merely ok success with tracking birds (300D has never matched the D60 for me... for lots of reasons) but then I grabbed Dave's "extra" 1D mounted to the 300f/2.8IS and it was like a dream. An almost religious experience. It made nailing the shots infinitely easier than the old Rebel. Then, after it got dark I slapped on the better beammer and used the 1/500th Xsync to light up birds in flight 50 yards away. Turned out I had too much flash power. I need an MK2 now.
Jason
FredG was there too. I was having merely ok success with tracking birds (300D has never matched the D60 for me... for lots of reasons) but then I grabbed Dave's "extra" 1D mounted to the 300f/2.8IS and it was like a dream. An almost religious experience. It made nailing the shots infinitely easier than the old Rebel. Then, after it got dark I slapped on the better beammer and used the 1/500th Xsync to light up birds in flight 50 yards away. Turned out I had too much flash power.
I need an MK2 now.Jason
I probably have some shots of the nest if I can ever dig through
them all and pick them out. I almost went on Saturday. I had even
planned it all out but I got tied up with things and didn’t
make it until Sunday afternoon. It would have been nice to be
there at the same time you guys were.
Greg
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Daniella68313
Veteran Member
nice photos! It's really though to expose them properly and most photographers simply left, especialy those with film and said "it will be all washed out"
No one had a flash. I think the flash helped me to get some detail from the shadow here, but the photos originaly came out a bit dark. At ISO 200 it was not a problem to process them to get detail without getting much noise. I choosed to underexpose a bit and preserv the white.
I have to do some tests next time to see just how the flash help in that place.
Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
No one had a flash. I think the flash helped me to get some detail from the shadow here, but the photos originaly came out a bit dark. At ISO 200 it was not a problem to process them to get detail without getting much noise. I choosed to underexpose a bit and preserv the white.
I have to do some tests next time to see just how the flash help in that place.
--It looks like you got some fine shots. I think my favorite was
your third one followed by your second one. I also liked the last
one. White birds are typically tougher to shoot because they are
usually so much brighter than everything else. I find that if I am
not careful I lose too much detail in the bird when I am trying to
expose to show some background or lose too much background
brightness when trying to preserve the maximum amount of bird
detail. Sometimes it can be hard to find the happy medium.
Anyway, I enjoyed looking at this set of your pictures.
I went to High Island, TX this past Sunday and took some similar
pictures.
I wasn’t using a 100-300mm f/5.6L though, but instead a 400mm
prime with a 1.4x extender. It looks like you were able to get
pretty close to the nests.
Greg
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Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
Daniella68313
Veteran Member
those are great! was it sunny or overcast? what time of day?
I don't see much shadow on them.
what lens did you use?
Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
I don't see much shadow on them.
what lens did you use?
--Here are some of my shots from Sunday:
ttp: 66.180.118.166/misc/houston_rookery/egret_siblings_std.jpg
Mmmm, regurgitated fish:
The fish going down:
It looks like you got some fine shots. I think my favorite was
your third one followed by your second one. I also liked the last
one. White birds are typically tougher to shoot because they are
usually so much brighter than everything else. I find that if I am
not careful I lose too much detail in the bird when I am trying to
expose to show some background or lose too much background
brightness when trying to preserve the maximum amount of bird
detail. Sometimes it can be hard to find the happy medium.
Anyway, I enjoyed looking at this set of your pictures.
I went to High Island, TX this past Sunday and took some similar
pictures.
I wasn’t using a 100-300mm f/5.6L though, but instead a 400mm
prime with a 1.4x extender. It looks like you were able to get
pretty close to the nests.
Greg
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Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
Daniella68313
Veteran Member
I don't know if it was caused by that frenzy or not, but I found a little baby great egret in the water...a seagull was trying to eat it and I went to try to rescue it but it was too late. Do you think it fell off the nest or do you think the seagull snatched it off the nest?
Poor thing bearely had feathers.
Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
Poor thing bearely had feathers.
--I’m glad you fixed the link, that shot turned out to be my
favorite one. I was really amused by the frenzy that the birds
went into when they thought they were about to get fed. They were
just biting at each other’s beaks and tapping on the
mothers’ beaks… That place really is neat and I am
glad I finally made it out there these past two weeks.
Greg
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Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
Jason Hutchinson
Veteran Member
Most likely it's siblings slowly pecked it to near death then pushed it out of the nest as a sort of survival of the fittest. That was happening in most of the Egret nests at High Island. I suspect the nests where this wasn't the case were the ones where this had already happened and the egrets were already in the bellies of the alligators waiting below.
Jason
Jason
Poor thing bearely had feathers.
--I’m glad you fixed the link, that shot turned out to be my
favorite one. I was really amused by the frenzy that the birds
went into when they thought they were about to get fed. They were
just biting at each other’s beaks and tapping on the
mothers’ beaks… That place really is neat and I am
glad I finally made it out there these past two weeks.
Greg
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Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
Ostoski
Veteran Member
Super Shots Daniella! Those inflight look nice too. Did you use a flash on them? I Need to get up to my spot but I have been fishing tournaments every weekend. Might have to take a day off to shot birds!
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Rod
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Daniella68313
Veteran Member
yes I used the flash on each one that the flash would fire sometimes it did not fire because it was recharging and on those I had to do a bit more post-processing to bring out shadows.
Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
sometimes it did not fire because it was recharging and on those I had to do a bit more post-processing to bring out shadows.Or fish?
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Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
Daniella68313
Veteran Member
It was not wounded, just drowned. I looked at it carefully..even tried with some massage, no luck. I could not see any cause of death, at least it was not wounds.
Do you think once they have feathers they have good chance of making it?
Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
OMG! I remember seing a program at Discovery and watching those poor little things fall in the water..then being gobbled up by alligator. It was not a pretty sight. Here there is no alligator though.
Do you think once they have feathers they have good chance of making it?
--Jason
Poor thing bearely had feathers.
--I’m glad you fixed the link, that shot turned out to be my
favorite one. I was really amused by the frenzy that the birds
went into when they thought they were about to get fed. They were
just biting at each other’s beaks and tapping on the
mothers’ beaks… That place really is neat and I am
glad I finally made it out there these past two weeks.
Greg
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Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
Daniella68313
Veteran Member
sometimes sounds like a parrot saying "hello" and sometimes they make really wierd sound...as if they speak some wierd language. does not sound like birds voice at some time. that is for the snowy.
Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
--OMG! I remember seing a program at Discovery and watching those
poor little things fall in the water..then being gobbled up by
alligator. It was not a pretty sight. Here there is no alligator
though.
Do you think once they have feathers they have good chance of
making it?
--Jason
Poor thing bearely had feathers.
--I’m glad you fixed the link, that shot turned out to be my
favorite one. I was really amused by the frenzy that the birds
went into when they thought they were about to get fed. They were
just biting at each other’s beaks and tapping on the
mothers’ beaks… That place really is neat and I am
glad I finally made it out there these past two weeks.
Greg
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Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
I don’t know at what point they are ok though I did see at least one spoonbill chick walking dangerously close to the edge of the nest. There were a couple of gators swimming around directly below. I didn’t actually see any birds fall from the nest but the presence of the gators indicates to me that it happens from time to time. So far the only birds that I have seen eaten by gators were gallinules and one unlucky mallard duck.
The bids do make some really unusual noises in the rookery that I have not heard any place else. I think it was the spoonbills that were making this really odd gurgling sound.
Greg
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The bids do make some really unusual noises in the rookery that I have not heard any place else. I think it was the spoonbills that were making this really odd gurgling sound.
Greg
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Daniella68313
Veteran Member
oh boy..I guess it was hard returning to the 300d after that ?It's possible Dave didn't want to be shown up by "the human tripod"
and that's why he didn't call you.
FredG was there too. I was having merely ok success with tracking
birds (300D has never matched the D60 for me... for lots of
reasons) but then I grabbed Dave's "extra" 1D mounted to the
300f/2.8IS and it was like a dream.
An almost religious
what flash did you use? does the better beamer make a real difference?experience. It made nailing the shots infinitely easier than the
old Rebel. Then, after it got dark I slapped on the better beammer
and used the 1/500th Xsync to light up birds in flight 50 yards
away. Turned out I had too much flash power.
and do you ever use the flash as fill in when it is sunny?
can you show me which pics have been taken with the flash?
I need an MK2
--now.
Jason
I probably have some shots of the nest if I can ever dig through
them all and pick them out. I almost went on Saturday. I had even
planned it all out but I got tied up with things and didn’t
make it until Sunday afternoon. It would have been nice to be
there at the same time you guys were.
Greg
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Minë Corma hostië të ilyë ar mordossë nutië të
Mornórëo Nóressë yassë i Fuini caitar.
Un thoron arart’a s’un hith mal’kemen ioke.
Saurulmaiel
Jason Hutchinson
Veteran Member
All the ones that were close to death at High Island didn't appear wounded, just so tired they could be pushed of the nest in which case they're basically a gonner.
The big turtles will eat them up too. Squirrels will eat up little ones that are weak as well.
Most of the ones I figured would die soon had feathers. In fact the sibling of these two below I expect isn't around any longer, although Greg/Peacefoto's images will be needed to confirm that.
Michael Soo119924
Veteran Member
Absolutely gorgeous, Daniella. At this point, I think the baby egrets may mistake you for their mom now...
BTW, I've not seen panning shots of egrets from you or anyone in this forum. Wanna be the leader in this?
Hey, OT question. What lens are you using for these? Another OT question, how come you're still using pbase? I thought you graduated to exhibition gallery?
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BTW, I've not seen panning shots of egrets from you or anyone in this forum. Wanna be the leader in this?
Hey, OT question. What lens are you using for these? Another OT question, how come you're still using pbase? I thought you graduated to exhibition gallery?
- MS
http://www.soocool.com - Explore life beyond the norms
Jason Hutchinson
Veteran Member
Very difficult. The shutter lag was so nice. The mirror didn't black out so long that the bird was out of the frame. Pure bliss. Fire off 8 shots in raw and look down immediately at the LCD and it's already got the last shot on the screen wondering what took you so long to look down.
Yes, it makes a huge difference. Turns a 420ex into more powerful than a 550ex. If you're starting with a 550ex it is even better.
Not a lot yesterday, mostly because it limits how many shots you can get in a burst.. or more precisely how many you can get looking the same. Also, I often don't like mixing flash with odd white balances such as shade.
I can look through the photos and see if I've got two with and without flash.
Jason
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