birds

They are migrating for the winter season here in Texas

I'm sure we can ALL relate !!

Six male Hooded Mergansers and one female were having fun a couple of days ago playing the "mating game." This particular shot shows just three males escorting the gal (the other three were out of camera range) and clearly they were enjoying themselves. So was she, as evidenced by the glint in...

I have two camera bodies: OM-1 and Fuji X-T5. I want to upgrade a long lens to either the Olympus 300mm f/4 or Fujinon XF 150-600 f/5.6-8 lens. I am mostly interested in anyone who has experience with these two lenses and their evaluation of image quality. (I am not that interested in BIF so...

SOOC / handheld / heavy crop

About a week ago, Kevin challenged me to explain in detail, detail, detail why, after being at Cameraderie member for 18 months, I still had problems with navigation. (Link to Kevin’s request) After exploring Cameraderie extensively over the past week, it dawned on me that the main reason for...

There have been some absolutely amazing shots in the 'Birds in Flight' image thread.... https://cameraderie.org/threads/birds-in-flight-photos-post-here.56436/ The wide variety of birds and shots have made me start wondering if the area I live in is devoid of variety or if I really need to get...

We got 2 big old trees cut down at the workplace and it got me thinking of a few ideas. This is one of them: to use a large-ish log as a bird feeder in my garden. I picked a reasonably portable log that won't start rolling in the wind. I am thinking of drilling some holes for the bird food on...

As the title suggests.

I knew I had taken these photos on the same day, but I thought it was the same bird hours apart. I was floored to discover it was just 3 minutes. I posted this here, rather than the Show Birds thread, because I thought it might help someone else appreciate the power and moment-to-moment...

Didn’t want to swamp the show birds thread with a ton of photos in a single post, but these all belong together. I watched for awhile today as a GBH skillfully fished time and time again, coming up with a fresh fish all but once.

Here are some words that come to mind, when I think of a superzoom, in roughly this order: fun, zoomy, miraculous, versatile, compromised, frustrating, disappointing. But I still went and touched the hot wire! Feeling equally bored and inquisitive, I recently bought a used HS30EXR to play around...

I recently moved my bird feeders closer to the house for winter, just to make it easier to keep them filled. I moved it thinking I may be able to shoot through a window over winter. What didn't occur to me was that it ended up about 20' from the service door on my garage. Last weekend I stood in...

Hi I have 2 birds that need id. If there is a thread already out regarding this can it be moved there? thanks

Found this poor bird while walking my dog at a local park.

been almost two years now since our last visit... nice to be able to go back... Untitled by tilman paulin, on Flickr Untitled by tilman paulin, on Flickr great blue heron by tilman paulin, on Flickr kingfisher by tilman paulin, on Flickr northern pintail by tilman paulin, on Flickr mallard...

The baby chickens, well not so much babies now, started a nightly routine of visiting our bedroom window as soon as they were big enough to get on top of the coop.

Which composition do you like better - the original showing the full context or the widescreen/cropped which brings the focus to the bird?

WARNING - Images below of the circle of life in the wilderness. Images below may not be for everyone. They are of an eagle eating on a deer carcass. Please click back on the browser now if this is not something you wish to see. I know that the white balance is off between...

Love my RX10 Mk4! Cheers, Jock

A rainy day always brings out the avians.

Messing about with Nik Analog Efex Pro 2. Just because I can!! :) Vintage camera preset. Nikon Z6, Tamron 70-200/2.8 G2 on FTZ

I shot this years ago while Kayaking in Virginia. My wife thought I was nuts carrying $2000 worth of Camera equipment in the Kayak but it payed off.

They're looking to break out

One of my two resident Wood Pigeons, seconds before there were two of them perched on the fence! Z6 + Z Nikkor s 85mm @ 1/25 f5.6 ISO110, heavy crop and some big adjustments.

Two beautiful Barn Owls at a summer fete. Lumix GX8 + Lumix G 20mm @ 1/125 f5.6 ISO1600.

**warning** the image below may not be something everyone wants to see. Any chance I get to be outside, I try. Even at work, during my break time, I head out and walk a mile. I usually see all matter of birds typical for the central Ohio region. On this particular day, I happened to be...

Our ship was turned away from Cuba by the U.S. Government, so we spent a couple of days in The Bahamas. The zoo and gardens was over booked, so we walked the streets. This is how I knew I missed photographing birds. Even the pigeons started to look good.

With all the larger birds and gators, sometimes these little guys don’t get any love. #1 #2 #3

These ducks were all over the Viera Wetlands yesterday morning. It looked like they nest in the palm tree stumps. They were great to watch and fun to shoot. Credit to Steve (@SRHEdD) for the ID. #1 #2 #3

Landing or taking off ?

A6000 and 18-135mm, slightly cropped

A6000 and 18-135mm Taken at different times throughout the day

The feeding frenzy started early today. The first image was taken right at daybreak with the G80 + Konica AR 50mm/1.4. After that I switched to the AR 135/3.2.

Took this video a couple of days ago with the Panasonic FZ200. Gulls at Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coat. SlowMo - Gulls, Aldeburgh by Pete Tachauer, on Flickr

I was putting away the Christmas Decor and found this little Hummingbird under one of our trees. Still had that pretty coloring though so I had to take a few images before taking care of it. A6000 and 50mm Minolta

A few images from a recent photo workshop I attended at an avian rescue center. These birds can never be released into the wild, some because their injuries were so severe they cannot fend for themselves, and others because they were human imprinted. Unfortunately, some misguided individuals...

Sunning themselves on the window ledge outside my office at work. The magic Google says one common theory on why Swallows and other birds do this is to kill Ectoparasites, but I haven't dug deep enough to know if there's any peer-reviewed research on this. Interesting to watch, at any rate.

A6000 and 28-70mm

Evening feeding frenzy.

Great day for a walk around the neighborhood.

I was hoping to get a photo of the Heron eating a fish, but it never caught one while I was there.

While testing my new X-E3 today, I snapped (literally) this Egret as it zoomed along our pond. Pretty lucky for AF-S! 27MM F2.8; SS 1/450; F5.6; ISO200; VELVIA; SOOC (Cropped)

Couldn't find a thread for ducks so if it's ok I'll start one. A few of my shots of the ducks on the village moat this morning.

X-T1 + 50-230 Red-bellied Woodpecker and Goldfinch Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Goldfinches Juncos Carolina Wren Goldfinch

A cold, icy, rainy day brought the critters out in droves to our front yard. The Red Maple tree looked like a scene from an Alfred Hitchcock movie. X-T1 + 50-230. Take a look at the "50-230 Samples" thread for a peek at what I think ended the feeding frenzy abruptly.

The birds are enjoying the snow and cold. X-T1 + 50-230.