Small Bird ID

[astroNikon]

I know nothing about birds but this bird is very interesting.
I'm thinking it's a female cardinal but I have no idea.
Or a small flying penguin

 

[dxqcanada3 3]

Waxwing

 

[dxqcanada3 3]

Waxwing

I think Bohemian

 

[astroNikon]

thanks. I looked at Wikipedia now and it looks like a Bohemian waxwing like you said.
The tree that two are on are a berry tree .. which they apparently eat berries.

 

[rodbender]

Its a Cedar Waxwing

 

[dxqcanada3 3]

Its a Cedar Waxwing

Ah, you are right ... white under tail, and brown/yellow belly.

 

[astroNikon]

Cedar Waxwing ... got it .. thanks :thumbup:

 

[Railphotog]

As noted, a cedar waxwing. Got two of them this week eating the blossoms on a crabapple tree in the next yard. Not as good as your shots though!

 

[JustJazzie]

It looks sooo soft!!! Neat captures!

 

[BillM]

Agree on the ID, Cedar Waxwing. But it also looks like you have some serious front focusing going on,. or your focus point hit the leafs in front ? If not you might want to look into doing a little focus fine tuning.

 

[astroNikon]

Agree on the ID, Cedar Waxwing. But it also looks like you have some serious front focusing going on,. or your focus point hit the leafs in front ? If not you might want to look into doing a little focus fine tuning.

I'm having a hard time trying to figure out the Focus Point - after download from my d600.
I'm pretty sure I was in AF-S Single point using my 75-300 AF lens (really old push pull).

FWIW, it is cropped from this

 

[BillM]

Do you have the Nikon software ? If you open the photo's in there it will show you where the focus point hit :thumbup:

 

[astroNikon]

It looks sooo soft!!! Neat captures!

I've seen two of these flying around my neighborhood for a while but didn't get a change to photo them until they were in my berry tree again. they've been in/out of it for this past week. So I grabbed my camera and went outside in my socks lol Got a few shots then they flew away.

They do look soft and cuddle.

 

[astroNikon]

Do you have the Nikon software ? If you open the photo's in there it will show you where the focus point hit :thumbup:

I just installed View NX2 a short time ago because I thought it had it (LR doesn't seem to have a plugin either )

But when I click on "Focus Point" it doesn't show a thing.
I also cannot go into edit because it says "unsupported file type" .. with RAW/NEF .. wth??

 

[astroNikon]

on my camera on my Playback display options I have them all selected
Focus Point
Highlights
RGB histogram
Shooting Data
Overview

and I see all those on the camera's LCD