Weekly challenge 1/2 - 1/8 Our fine feathered friends

[SquarePeg]

For this week’s challenge, post photos of birds, owls, feathers or other woodland creatures. New photos only please for the challenge.

Get out there and shoot!

Capturing distinctive bird images

Tips for Photographing Birds in Flight

A Beginners Guide for Photographing Birds in Flight

 

[mjcmt]

This will be a nice challenge for lots of photogs here. It seems like a popular subject for folks w/ long lenses. I won't be able to participate but looking forward to see some above average bird photos here.

 

[Photo Lady]

i love this challenge

.. although i did have a few furry guys today.. lots of birds too I had to add my new red squirrel.. first time i saw one..

 

[CherylL]

This will be a nice challenge for lots of photogs here. It seems like a popular subject for folks w/ long lenses. I won't be able to participate but looking forward to see some above average bird photos here.

I don't have a long lens either. Maybe using bird or birds as a composition with the tree or feeder? Birds in a scene?

 

[SquarePeg]

This will be a nice challenge for lots of photogs here. It seems like a popular subject for folks w/ long lenses. I won't be able to participate but looking forward to see some above average bird photos here.

I don't have a long lens either. Maybe using bird or birds as a composition with the tree or feeder? Birds in a scene?

Sure - seagulls at the beach, pigeons in the park, macro feathers, geese migrating, ducks waddling... be creative. My longest lens is only 230 so I’ll be taking my own advice and trying to get something usable - maybe this is the week that elusive cardinal will stay on my backyard tree long enough for me to grab my camera and open the kitchen window!

 

[photoflyer]

owls

Anyone who gets an owl this week for the challenge should get extra extra credit.

 

[Photo Lady]

never knew they had a tongue..

 

[Photo Lady]

Another new guy today.. I think it is the

Hairy woodpecker and in this case.. greasy too.... .

 

[mjcmt]

This will be a nice challenge for lots of photogs here. It seems like a popular subject for folks w/ long lenses. I won't be able to participate but looking forward to see some above average bird photos here.

I don't have a long lens either. Maybe using bird or birds as a composition with the tree or feeder? Birds in a scene?

Sure - seagulls at the beach, pigeons in the park, macro feathers, geese migrating, ducks waddling... be creative. My longest lens is only 230 so I’ll be taking my own advice and trying to get something usable - maybe this is the week that elusive cardinal will stay on my backyard tree long enough for me to grab my camera and open the kitchen window!

If I see a bird it will be a dot in the photo, unless I'm lucky.

 

[photoflyer]

Gray day in DC but I committed to share whatever I shot during a walk along the promenade at Long Bridge Park (end of the runway DCA).

Chance to practice with the AF.

VA State bird.

Winterized Goldfinch.

Gray day. Blue Jay.

Not sure what this is.

 

[Photo Lady]

Gray day in DC but I committed to share whatever I shot during a walk along the promenade at Long Bridge Park (end of the runway DCA).
gorgeous red cardinal...

 

[PJM]

Cooper's Hawk
Coopers-2 by Peter Martin, on Flickr

 

[photoflyer]

Cooper's Hawk

Magnificent. I caught a Red Tail in flight but the photographer was battling with the camera and the shot was not as good as it should have been.

 

[sleist]

 

[snowbear]

Sure - seagulls at the beach, pigeons in the park, macro feathers, geese migrating, ducks waddling... be creative. My longest lens is only 230 so I’ll be taking my own advice and trying to get something usable - maybe this is the week that elusive cardinal will stay on my backyard tree long enough for me to grab my camera and open the kitchen window!

I'd go along with decoys, especially the display-art ones that have a lot of details.