Rare Bird

K9Kirk · Nov 29, 2021

A rare bird for this area. It's a great cormorant. Another photographer pointed it out to me as I walked into the area at Myakka River State Park. Granted, it's not a great shot of it, it was far away and h.h. I did my best to steady the shot.

Jeff15 · Nov 29, 2021

Interesting looking bird, never heard of this one.....

jeffashman · Nov 29, 2021

Nice shot! That's my challenge, they always seem to be just out of range.

K9Kirk · Nov 29, 2021

Jeff15 said:
Interesting looking bird, never heard of this one.....

Neither have I until it was pointed out to me. I was like, "A great what?!"

jeffashman said:
Nice shot! That's my challenge, they always seem to be just out of range.

My problem is holding the camera perfectly still zoomed out to 600 mm and the subject being around 40 or more meters away. I may start carrying my tripod on my bike.

Lez325 · Nov 30, 2021

May I ask it it much larger than an every day Cormorant Kirk?

I would suggest a mono pod if the tripod is a pain to carry around- I have a Gitzo Carbon Fibre monopod it weights hardly anything and it came from Amazon- sits on my backpack and I hardly know it's there

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Les

PS you have PM

Lez325 · Nov 30, 2021

jeffashman said:
Nice shot! That's my challenge, they always seem to be just out of range.

Something we all suffer from Jeff - trust me

K9Kirk · Nov 30, 2021

Lez325 said:
May I ask it it much larger than an every day Cormorant Kirk?

I would suggest a mono pod if the tripod is a pain to carry around- I have a Gitzo Carbon Fibre monopod it weights hardly anything and it came from Amazon- sits on my backpack and I hardly know it's there

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Les

PS you have PM

Looked to be the same size to me but "allaboutbirds.org" says they ae a little larger than a double crested cormorant. I actually have a monopod weighing right at 1.19 lbs. but I don't use it because I've found that the lens' VR holds the subject as still, if not better than a monopod because of how it actually locks the picture completely still ... if you are still enough that is and I usually am. I usually drop down and rest an elbow on a bent knee to steady it and fire off a few rounds, refocus, shoot a few more to assure I get one clean shot. That usually works great but not this day. The combination of the monopod and VR might've helped with a long distance shot like this so I'm going to start carrying my monopod on the bikes rack where ever I go, just in case. Thanks!