Bird Thread

[Rex914]

Rather than crosspost (which is against the rules), I'll just link you to the penguin pictures from my other thread. Enjoy!

http://www.dcresource.com/forums/sho...45&postcount=2

[carbine]

carbine:

Where are you located? It's definitely one of the birds in the Nightjar family. I don't have any pictures of juveniles, but my guess would be a young Whip-poor-will or an Antillean Nighthawk. Others from that family that are found in North America are the Pauraque, Common poor-will, Chuck-will's-widow, Common Nighthawk, and Lesser Nighthawk.

I am in Australia Queensland And it is a Tawney-Frogmouth Owl

[lynchbird]

Oh .... uh .... yeah! .... Of course! .....

That's what I meant to say!

[ReValveiT]

Yesterday was horrible and grey...You can't let that stop you takin' pics though!

[scatamousche]

A greenfinch - this one managed to fly into our window and was a bit dazed for a while, allowing me to come close to photograph it in macro mode on my Ricoh RDC-7:


A capercaillie - I was very lucky to be able to get this shot, but unfortunately I couldn't get very close and had to use the maximum digital zoom. (I'm hopefully getting a Canon S2 soon which should rectify this!)

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I love the detail on the greenfinch's feathers. Quite an excellent texture! I have never seen a Capercaillie although I believe I have heard a band by that name. I believe they were Scottish and may have spelled it with a K.

Great shots with the Canon S2's everybody. I am almost embarrased to post mine in this company as I am not quite used to my tele-extender yet. Well, here goes.....

The first one I believe is a downy woodpecker but there is a slight chance it is a hairy woodpecker. The second one is an attempt to get a hovering hummingbird in the morning light. I believe I had to push the ISO a bit to get enough light.

Scatamousche

[Rachel Robbins.]

Ooooh, birds, my favorite subject. There are some gorgeous pictures in this thread!

I've been lurking for a while. Before the forum change, I posted here quite a bit, but then went away for a while 'cause I didn't need, couldn't afford, and couldn't let myself look at new cameras. But I came back to research the Digital Rebel XT before buying one, and I've been catching up reading here. Then I came across the bird thread. I can't resist the bird thread.

These are a couple of my older bird pics, both taken in Morro Bay on a sailing trip down the California coast in 2001, with my now old Olympus C2100 UZ.

A Great Blue Heron, having found food:


A Night Heron on the dock:


I'll be back, especially if I can capture the Rufous Hummingbird who just decided to stake out our feeder as his territory, despite overwhelming numbers of Broad-Tailed Hummingbirds who felt it was theirs first.

[Rachel Robbins.]

I just came across another I really like from that Morro Bay trip in 2001, also from the Olympus C2100 UZ.

All of these photos have, at most, a Photoshop auto levels applied, and no other editing aside from resizing for posting.

A Brown Pelican:

[XOO]

Playing around with the digital zoom until lens adapter arrives. I was actually pleasantly surprised at the feather detail at 27x! Shot in 2048x1536 resolution.

[iplayazi]

Nice digital zoom I love the s2 (im not biased or anything!) What settings did you use for that one, If you remember.

And how do I display pics on forum mine just become links.

Thanks

[XOO]

Nice digital zoom I love the s2 (im not biased or anything!) What settings did you use for that one, If you remember.

And how do I display pics on forum mine just become links.

Thanks

To display the pics, on my screen there is a square box and if I put the cursor over the box it says, "Insert Image". To the right of that is what you used - Insert Hyperlink, I would guess.

But on the digital zoom. Mostly automatic although I was using P mode, but I didn't adjust anything - I guess that is what amazed me when I looked at the shot on computer screen. Looking at the EXIF data, it says:
1/125 @ f4.0, Metering was Evaluative, Digital Zoom was 2.531x or 30x (12x2.531), Normal processing, Fine compression, and resolution of 2048x1536. Other than the resolution I didn't do anything other than snap

The biggest help to getting a shot like that is lighting. Until the sun travels farther South, I have a window of opportunity of about one hour early in the morning where the sun is hitting the stump and the background is completely black - due to tree shadows behind the stump. Later in the day, I don't even try.