jedirunner
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Well, I've finally cropped and done (a little) processing on some of our photos.
I've discovered that I don't have much reach with a 70-300 for just walking around and shooting birds. They're too ... flighty. I'm sure as we get to know some of the spots better, that we'll settle in and let the birds come to us, and also learn how to better approach them and not scare them off so easily. For now, these pics had to be *heavily* cropped to actually get to the birds. I look forward to more ventures and less cropping as the year goes on.
We saw plenty of other bird varieties, but the pics just didn't end up any good at all, or at least not as interesting as these.
I'd love for 2 things:
So here we go:
1. Black-necked stilt (I think)
2. Black-necked stilt in flight
3. American avocets in flight
4. American avocet chasing young ducks of some unknown (to me) variety
5. Yellow headed black bird (Never seen these around my home, but there were hundreds all over the place as we drove around the lake-front road for a couple hours).
6. Baird's sandpiper
7. Sandhill crane (Never seen one around here ... he was just in some farmer's field we happened to drive by, and was fairly distant, unfortunately)
Thanks for any comments and bird identity confirmation or correction, as well as C&C you can provide.
Kevin
I've discovered that I don't have much reach with a 70-300 for just walking around and shooting birds. They're too ... flighty. I'm sure as we get to know some of the spots better, that we'll settle in and let the birds come to us, and also learn how to better approach them and not scare them off so easily. For now, these pics had to be *heavily* cropped to actually get to the birds. I look forward to more ventures and less cropping as the year goes on.
We saw plenty of other bird varieties, but the pics just didn't end up any good at all, or at least not as interesting as these.
I'd love for 2 things:
- C&C
- Confirmation on my bird identification (just used iBird Pro to examine our pics after the fact)
So here we go:
1. Black-necked stilt (I think)
2. Black-necked stilt in flight
3. American avocets in flight
4. American avocet chasing young ducks of some unknown (to me) variety
5. Yellow headed black bird (Never seen these around my home, but there were hundreds all over the place as we drove around the lake-front road for a couple hours).
6. Baird's sandpiper
7. Sandhill crane (Never seen one around here ... he was just in some farmer's field we happened to drive by, and was fairly distant, unfortunately)
Thanks for any comments and bird identity confirmation or correction, as well as C&C you can provide.
Kevin