Communal Bird Photography Thread

[MJ224]

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A beautiful Yellow Billed Cardinal

[BDennis]

A couple of recent Cetti's Warbler shots from Hen Reedbeds near Southwold in Suffolk. A bird I have often heard but so rarely see! I cropped these a little over 50% as it was in a bush a way over a fence.


Cetti's Warbler by Bill Dennis, on Flickr


Cetti's Warbler by Bill Dennis, on Flickr

[MJ224]

As good as you get , Bill. 👍

[BDennis]

Thanks. I've got some video I'm sorting out. It was in a sunny bush preening and as we watched it sang a few times in between sorting out its feathers. The OM-1 subject detect was highlighting the bird but it didn't get good focus much of the time due to the twigs, maybe I should have just used a single focus point or small cluster. Bird in a bush needs a bit more practise...

[Olybirder]

Splendid photos of a very tricky bird Bill. I have never managed to get a decent shot of one.

Ron

[MJ224]

Lovely. Look be the last one in particular 👍👍

[Billsyn]

Great photos, nice and sharp.

[MJ224]

Lovely sharp shots there Paul..:-)

[blackfox]

Superb set

[Phill D]

Yes they are a delight to look at Paul and the B&W works really well.

[shakyHands]

A quick trip to the Eric SIngleton bird sanctuary about 10mins from where I live in Perth. Not many classic water-birds today but there were a lot of welcome swallows darting around over the large pond. I had my 100-400 and MC-14 on my OM1 and thought flying swallows looked like a good challenge. Turned out to be probably too big a challenge, but in amongst a lot of blurs and frames with no bird at all got a few that were recognizably swallows. An Australasian swamphen, Australasian darter and an Australian reed warbler also turned up (I don't think I've ever seen reed warbler before and definitely never photographed one so that was a nice surprise). Next time, I'll take the teleconverter off - most of the shots were in range of the 100-400 and a little better ISO/shutter-speed would have been nice. These were all auto-focus with bird-subject identification using SH2 pro-capture, some exposure adjustment and cropping but no noise reduction or sharpening.

[MJ224]

You are picking a difficult bird to photo there, you have succeeded well. .............:-)

[shakyHands]

I went expecting pelicans and cormorants - you can only try what's there.

[Dave in Wales]

GS Woody Male

OM-1 + 100-400

[Dave in Wales]

Red kite looking up at another.

A few days ago we had seven circling the house, alas to high to snap.

[IainMacD]

In Flight Entertainment by Iain MacDiarmid, on Flickr

[blackfox]

Ver6 nice indeed

[TravelingChick]

Wonderful! I love puffins.

[Matt_Hirst]

Heard a load of Squawking and screaming from the garden today, so I assumed one of the local cats had got one of the birds, I ran to the window ready to lob something at the cat only to see a Sparrowhawk had took one of the sparrows out, but it was surrounded on two sides by a couple of blackbirds squawking away.

Anyway I quickly grabbed my camera only to get to the window to watch the Sparrowhawk lift into the air with the Blackbird's right behind it and a single Sparrow chasing it, it landed in another corner of the garden, so I ran downstairs to try grab a pic.

Getting outside the commotion was going on still, never heard a sound like it, the two Blackbirds and sole Sparrow were running up to the Sparrowhawk which was covering it's kill unsure what to do, anyway I managed one or tow shots before the Sparrowhawk lifted and flew out of the garden again chased by the Blackbirds and Sparrow.

Sparrowhawk saying come a step closer and I'll have you as well!

Sparrowhawk4 by Matt Hirst, on Flickr

Sparrowhawk lifting

Sparrowhawk5 by Matt Hirst, on Flickr

Forgot to add, I knew the Sparrowhawk would lift so just switched my camera to procapture just in case, but the images all came out really dark, so these images are heavily lightened - am I doing something wrong when using procapture or should it just be same ISO etc settings as a normal single pic?

[TravelingChick]

Great shots. I've never figured out to use ProCap without burning through a battery. Your processing looks just fine to me.

[mikero]

Just got back from three weeks away in the caravan and only scraped the surface of sorting through my images. The main objective was to get out on a boat on Mull to see the Sea Eagles. The boat nearly got cancelled due to the weather which was rather windy with intermittent showers. Not easy taking photos from a rolling boat! I've not looked through all the images yet, but this is one of the best I've found so far.
OM-1, 150-400mm F4.5 lens.

[mikero]

Thanks All. It was quite an experience out on Lady Jayne to see and photograph the Sea Eagles. They are magnificent birds and I'd recommend it to anyone.

[Dave in Wales]

Fabulous...........

[TravelingChick]

Dang! I think you nailed it!!

[blackfox]

first time out for a week , trying to cut down on my fuel consumption .. got a holiday at end of month and need to cut back a tad £1.90 a litre round here for diesel .. anyway took a burst of this black back gull and every shot was sharp .

[MJ224]

Mr Bush Turkey..

[griffljg]

"Sir" to you! 😉

He's a beauty. Well caught!

[MJ224]

He was a whopper for certain, impressing two ladies nearby...

[blackfox]

few more sandwich tern shots from last week