Male Hooded Oriole

RVT1K · May 12, 2022

I'm working on learning about all the new birds I'm seeing here. But my Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Northern Central America is coming in handy.

jeffashman · May 12, 2022

Nice shot! Beautiful bird! I'm on the hunt for an Orchard Oriel, because they show up in this area, but are very rare. I use an app called Seek which is by iNaturalist, and it works very well. Just point the phone camera at the bird on the screen, and in most cases it comes back immediately with the identification.

K9Kirk · May 12, 2022

A beautiful bird.

Space Face · May 13, 2022

Lovely bird indeed, well taken and great bg.

I don't think the central positioning in the frame really does it justice tho. I'd personally move it left of center.

I've recently started to square crop most (not all) of my bird shots. Dunno why after years of rectangular shots but I seem to prefer it that way now for some reason.

Jeff15 · May 13, 2022

Very nice shot.....

John 2 · May 13, 2022

What a gorgeous bird. Nice shot.

RVT1K · May 13, 2022

Space Face said:
Lovely bird indeed, well taken and great bg.

I don't think the central positioning in the frame really does it justice tho. I'd personally move it left of center.

I've recently started to square crop most (not all) of my bird shots. Dunno why after years of rectangular shots but I seem to prefer it that way now for some reason.

I'll go back and take a look at the uncropped shot. But I think the background got less to my liking when I first tried that.
I have to admit to being essentially "locked in" to the 16x9 aspect ratio so my shots fill the screen and should consider the possibilities of different crops.
Thanks for the thoughtful comments.

Warhorse · May 13, 2022

Very pretty bird.

RVT1K · May 13, 2022

jeffashman said:
Nice shot! Beautiful bird! I'm on the hunt for an Orchard Oriel, because they show up in this area, but are very rare. I use an app called Seek which is by iNaturalist, and it works very well. Just point the phone camera at the bird on the screen, and in most cases it comes back immediately with the identification.

I'll have to keep that resource in mind. The book I have is a great source of info but can be cumbersome to use, you kinda need to know the bird to find it in the book. Otherwise there is a lot of thumbing through to find something.