I Like Birds

In reviewing my archive I found a lot of bird photos and realized that I like taking photos of these feathered characters. The following is a sample from the archive.

A Grey Crowned African Crane

an American White Pelicon

Two Sand Hill Cranes

A Snow Geese

A mud duck. aka American Coot

A Mallard Drake

An Avacet

A Wood Duck

A Horned Owl and Chick

A hooded Night Heron

A Flicker Wood Pecker

A Great Blue Heron Family

Enjoy!

Beautiful set, Larry.

I like birds too... but they don't have enough patience for me!

Nice work Larry!

SigmaChrome wrote:

Beautiful set, Larry.

I like birds too... but they don't have enough patience for me!

Thanks Vitee, comments appreciated.  

I smiled at your quip about birds being patient, I have not found many to have that characteristic

Thanks Scott; comments very much appreciated!  

da7329 wrote:

These are nice! You should take more. I see most taken with the sd1m. I have a long zoom and prime in the sa mount that I use with my A9. I see you were shooting up to around iso 800. I think I will have try with my sdqh and see what I can get as i shoot many birds but never with a sigma cam. Thanks for posting.

Hi DA, thanks for your comments.  They are appreciated.  I have taken lots more pix of birds and put these as some of my favorites.  I am posting 2 more here that I like a lot.

I have not had good luck with the sd Quattro because of the blackout between shots, which make it hard to track the birds.

Snowy Egret

Great Blue Heron

Enjoy!  

DA

Great shots! Shooting birds on a Foveon camera it's a challenge in the challenge of birding itself 

I've just gotten a 100-400 to try out my luck at nature photography with the SD Quattro, which I know won't be easy, given the lens' narrow aperture at max focal lenght and Foveon sensor's low tolerance for high ISO shots, but I indeed like the challenge to try to get something remotely decent out of it

Very good, especially the horned owls and the flicker.

Don

D Cox wrote:

Very good, especially the horned owls and the flicker.

Thanks Don.  I too like the Flicker shot, a good environmental study.  

Don

Hi Rick:  Here is my bird porn shot, Great Blue Heron mating.  It does not look like the female is having any fun!

The only time I have seen this and glad I was able to capture the event!

Tirpitz666 wrote:

Great shots! Shooting birds on a Foveon camera it's a challenge in the challenge of birding itself

Thanks tirpitz666 and birding is challenging with any camera.

I've just gotten a 100-400 to try out my luck at nature photography with the SD Quattro, which I know won't be easy, given the lens' narrow aperture at max focal lenght and Foveon sensor's low tolerance for high ISO shots, but I indeed like the challenge to try to get something remotely decent out of it

I tried shooting humming birds using the sd Quattro and the 100-400 mm lens.  I had no luck and a lot of out of focus and blurred shots, due to the black out between shots..  I swapped the lens to my wife's SD15 and got some reasonable images.  Here is one of them:

Good luck!

Beautiful bird photos and excellent colors Larry! I like the first, second picture and the owls the most.. the hummingbird ( SD15) is fantastic too! That's for a whole new thread.

Peter

Some of the less impatient ones:

Rainbow Lorikeets

Crested Pigeon

Little Corellas

Noisy Miner

Red Wattlebird

Nice selection Vitee:  Thanks for sharing!  

Thanks for the comments Peter, very much appreciated.  One the 2 are also among my favorites.  The SD15 is Kathleen's camera and I does not let me shoot it often  

larryj wrote:

Nice selection Vitee: Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Larry.

One more:

A beautiful and very friendly Apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea). One of a gang of twelve.

SigmaChrome wrote:

larryj wrote:

Nice selection Vitee: Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Larry.

One more:

A beautiful and very friendly Apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea). One of a gang of twelve.

Must be very friendly if that's a 50mm lens. Good shot.

Are they only called Apostle birds when they are in gangs of twelve ?  

Don