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[Click]

Me too. I really like the first one. Well done!

 

[docsmith]

Thanks Click and MSH411. Much appreciated. Glad you like the first. I like it too. That is the Chickadee waiting in the butterfly bush near my feeder. I am also partial to the last one. Just a little guy hanging on as the snow falls.

Anyway, more to come from that morning.

 

[Noreaster]

 

[Click]

Lovely shot, Noreaster. I really like the low POV.

 

[ERHP]

When your feathers need to look their best, Reddish Egret during high tide.

R5 RF600 f/4L IS w/1.4x 1/1250 : f/11 : ISO 800

Had a Green Heron who liked the tidal channel neat the end of the San Diego River and didn't mind me sitting across from it.

R5 RF600 f/4L IS w/1.4x 1/2000 : f/9 : ISO 800

And this year's Loggerhead Shrike seems to be younger based on the gape. Still fairly accommodating and has provided some nice flight shots.

R5 RF600 f/4L IS w/1.4x 1/4000 : f/7.1 : ISO 1000

 

[Click]

Great shots, ERHP.

 

[ISv]

Great shots, ERHP.

Really great!

 

[ISv]

And my today: after murky, cool (thanks God or who ever is responsible!), drizzling yesterday it's again bright hot and as one can expect the birds are in shade and around some water. Wrapped it when I finished my 1L cold water...

 

[Click]

Well done, ISv.

 

[MSH411]

A beautiful collection of frames ISv. You have some very cool species in your part of the world.

 

[AlanF]

Thanks guys for publishing such great shots. I'm stretched out with a cryotherapy cuff around my new knee, and looking at these beautiful images certainly takes my mind off the treatment and makes me keener than ever to be out with the long lenses!

 

[MSH411]

Sorry to hear that you are on injured reserve Alan. Speedy recovery Sir!

 

[Click]

Get well soon, Alan. I'm looking forward to seeing your pictures.

 

[P-visie]

Thanks guys for publishing such great shots. I'm stretched out with a cryotherapy cuff around my new knee, and looking at these beautiful images certainly takes my mind off the treatment and makes me keener than ever to be out with the long lenses!

Get well soon Alan.

 

[Noreaster]

 

[ISv]

Off course I went to check on the Brant again! This time it got little bit too close (it was seeing me despite I tried to hide behind of tree ).
The last photo is to show what it's eating there (and it should feel there as a mouse in cheese!). I can't ID the plant so far: must be Sesuvium portulacastrum or Batis maritima. Have to take photos of flowering plant. Both are edible for humans too... First one is indigenous for Hawaii the second is invasive.

 

[ISv]

Well, I took "closer look" (magnification!) at the last photo and the plant looks like the indigenous one!

 

[docsmith]

As I sat waiting on the Norther Flicker to get to a good perch, I took a lot of other photos that I am still working through.

Here is some fun with an Eastern Bluebird



This one liked to chat

 

[docsmith]

BTW...the Norther Flicker has now been at my feeder 4 days in a row. But, it tends to swoop in from the woods right onto the feeder. I am wondering how often I will get a good clear image of it on an unobscured natural perch. Lots of shots like this though....

 

[Click]

As I sat waiting on the Norther Flicker to get to a good perch, I took a lot of other photos that I am still working through.

I really like your series. Especially the first picture. Well done!