Red Wing Blackbirds in the rain

coastalconn · Apr 13, 2013

It was miserable this morning and I only had about 10 minutes to play. The light was dismal. These are all at ISO 800 so I had to do some noise reduction on the background. I also had almost no shutter speed and I was just shooting out my window..

1 You can actually see the rain coming in sideways.

Wet red wing blackbird 1 by krisinct, on Flickr

2 This one was pretty close and I had to shoot down at a pretty sharp angle...The DOF was so thin the feet actually were out of focus.. 1/50th is really too slow for birds..

Wet red wing blackbird 2 by krisinct, on Flickr

3 I have never seen a first year blackbird, I thought the pattern on the back was pretty cool.. still only 1/50th sec..

Young red wing blackbird by krisinct, on Flickr

ryanparker · Apr 13, 2013

wow, amazing shots! Such beautiful colors & details...very nice!

JacaRanda · Apr 13, 2013

I wish I could see more rain in the first one but still a nice shot. I really like #3 the best. Looks really sharp @ 1/50.

WesternGuy · Apr 13, 2013

CC, great shots considering the conditions. Our RWBs haven't made it here yet, at least I haven't seen any, although our ponds are still mostly still frozen and the weather folks are forecasting about 5 to 10± cm of snow - yup, snow, over the weekend. :grumpy:

WesternGuy

sm4him · Apr 13, 2013

Nice; I like the first and the third the best. I don't have any rwb's in my yard, but there's a ton of them at the place where I've been going to shoot Osprey--I have yet to get a really good picture of one though.