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[Maximilian]

Spend some time today watching the White Terns trying to get their fledgling to the ocean. ...

Lovely in the shadows. Well done!

 

[Maximilian]

Not that great, but my first hooded crows (corvus cornix).
Taken at Kos island. more to come...
200D, EF-S55-250mm STM, @250mm, f/10, 1/320 and 1/800, ISO100-500

 

[ISv]

Could be a Cuckoo.

Don't be such a pessimist ! On other hand even Cuckoo fledgling would be interesting (I don't recall any posted here?).

 

[AlanF]

Don't be such a pessimist ! On other hand even Cuckoo fledgling would be interesting (I don't recall any posted here?).

Why is it pessimistic stating it could be a cuckoo - my friend whose speciality is Cuckoos and brood parasitism would find it far more interesting as do the vast audience watching Springwatch on the BBC at present, glued to seeing Meadow Pipits feeding a Cuckoo about 10x their size?

 

[josephandrews222]

...this time of year, in my part of the midwest USA, the new tree leaves provide cover for our backyard birds...sometimes (often times?!) I can hear the birds before I see them...and sometimes I don't see them at all.

The app on my phone told me this:


...and the Chipping Sparrow went yellow as I moved toward a larger/taller tree...one with new leaves.

I couldn't see the bird but with the aid of the optical finder on the 5DMk3 (looking through EF 100-400II) , I was able to locate the source of the rather incessant chirping:


...indeed--a Chipping Sparrow...cropped to about 1300 pixels square (not upsized).

My own unaided eyesight alone would not have been able find/locate the bird--Merlin + viewfinder @ 400mm = image acquisition.

Of course, my growing cataracts may have something to do with all of this...

 

[macrunning]

These are from today: went there for "baby Red-tailed Tropic Bird" but didn't find the right burrow. Finished with an adult (not very sure!) in the burrow.
Plus photos of sub-adult - it still has some black on the back...


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Nice shots. We went to the Kilauea Lighthouse to capture some of these. Not sure if I got anything good. Still processing the images from our vacation. Did get to snap some shots of baby mamas feeding their young. It was a great couple of weeks in Kauai.

 

[macrunning]

Nothing interesting from today...

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Nice shots. I actually found it quite interesting to find these birds in Kauai. I had never seen. Them before in the 15 years we have been traveling there. They are very common here in the pnw. I got some shots this year, will post soon.

 

[macrunning]

Terns courting (R5.100-500).
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Man, can’t a guy just get some private time anymore?

 

[macrunning]

Today (Mather's Day!) it was a botanical garden: not my choice but I knew there are a lot of Chestnut Munia (Lonchure atricapila) there and and I don't remember when actually I have seen them last time and when I took a photo of adults. Not because they are rare here, most probably because I haven't been in rainy habitats for years... Shy - few clicks and gone!
First was a Red-whiskered Bulbul bringing building material. That one was not shy but tricky: it was sitting on a sign with a left arrow reading "To the Lake" and even looked at that direction before it took off to the right in dense bush where I couldn't follow it! After that the Chestnut Munia: I have seen hundreds of them in that location but today was very different - just few couples!

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Nice shots. I wanted to get some shots of these guys while we were in Kauai but they were so flighty. I did manage to get some scaly breasted munia, only because they were busy distracted feeding their babies.

 

[macrunning]

These are the first coot chicks of the season at our local ponds.
5D4, 100-400L II+ TC, @560 mm.

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Those are some fugly chicks!

 

[macrunning]

Yellow-faced Honeyeater, New Holland Honeyeater and a Rockwarbler in the late afternoon sun..

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Nice shots

 

[macrunning]

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Nice shots

 

[ISv]

Why is it pessimistic stating it could be a cuckoo - my friend whose speciality is Cuckoos and brood parasitism would find it far more interesting as do the vast audience watching Springwatch on the BBC at present, glued to seeing Meadow Pipits feeding a Cuckoo about 10x their size?

Probably because I don't like any kind of parasitism....

 

[ISv]

Man, can’t a guy just get some private time anymore?

"Man, can’t a guy just get some private time anymore?" Nope! The tele lenses got cheaper (well, some of them but they are doing pretty good job!)

 

[macrunning]

The very commons today... I love to take a photos of birds among the fallen flowers of Sausage Tree (Cucumber Tree = ambiguous, Kigelia africana) but this was at noon and the flowers where not looking good already. Also, the bird is about the same size as the flowers and I couldn't get them in the same focus plane (or nearly the same ). Otherwise the fallen flowers of this tree are doing interesting background. Entering below that tree always look above - if the fruit is not trimmed you go UNDER your own risk - the fruit could weight up to 7kg!

Edited: according to Wikipedia up to 10 kg?! At least on Hawaii I don't think I have seen that big... It means you should feel free to go underneath the tree if you don't mind 7kg falling on your head !

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I so wanted to get some shots of the Java sparrows in Kauai. Alas I only got to see them once, of course when I didn’t have my camera.

 

[macrunning]

I think it unnecessary to have separate BIF and Portraits threads. The first post in this Portraits thread says: ‘The main idea of this topic is that the bird is clearly the main part component of the picture and that it is not a bird in flight or small bird on large tree or group shot ... ‘That would exclude many of the shots subsequently posted here.

It really is unnecessary to have two threads for birding photos.

 

[macrunning]

Puffin
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Wow, beautiful shot!

 

[macrunning]

Egyptian gosling
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R5 + RF 100-400

Nice shot.

 

[ISv]

Nice shots. I wanted to get some shots of these guys while we were in Kauai but they were so flighty. I did manage to get some scaly breasted munia, only because they were busy distracted feeding their babies.

They are not easy - very afraid! Not rare at some habitats but still you don't get many opportunities (for really good shot)- not at all!! And you have to be at relatively short distance to put them in more pixels - so small. Believe me not easy task - I had tried many times with much better results with younger birds, adults are kind of frustrating.

 

[ERHP]

A female Cinnamon Teal with her nine ducklings crossing a small pond in the Cuyamaca range.

R5 RF600 w/1.4x 1/3200 : f/7.1 : ISO 1000

A male Northern Flicker stopped by then went ant hunting.

R5 RF600 w/1.4x 1/3200 : f/7.1 : ISO 1000