Diversity

Harryb · August 16, 2005

Hi you'll,

One of the things I love about the Viera Wetlands is the different birds that you have to shoot.

There are always egrets to be found.

The Great Blue Heron is permanent resident

there are plenty of ibis

If you look carefully you will find green herons

There are always plenty of tri-colored herons

the occasional spoonbill stops by

and thats not including the raptors (eagles, hawks, ospreys, caracaras), storks, cranes, ducks, stilts, terns, owls, woodpeckers, snowy and cattle egrets, vultures, and gators.

Osprey Whisperer · August 16, 2005

Nice shots Harry. What..no mermaids over there?

Nice variety of birds you have. I need to venture out a bit more and find osme "different" birds to shoot. The usual suspects are getting a tad bit ... boring. Keep them birdies comin'

Cheers

BMP

benbo · August 16, 2005

Congrat...I really like the 2 and 4 one.
BenBo

Mipik · August 16, 2005

Harryb wrote:

Hi you'll,

One of the things I love about the Viera Wetlands is the different birds that you have to shoot.

There are always egrets to be found.

The Great Blue Heron is permanent resident

there are plenty of ibis

If you look carefully you will find green herons

There are always plenty of tri-colored herons

the occasional spoonbill stops by

and thats not including the raptors (eagles, hawks, ospreys, caracaras), storks, cranes, ducks, stilts, terns, owls, woodpeckers, snowy and cattle egrets, vultures, and gators.

All lovely! My favorite is #4.

Steve Cavigliano · August 16, 2005

That's right Harry! Rub our noses in it

You were never this way when you lived in NY

Most of us are lucky to find a sparrow to shoot and you've got a darn National Geographic breeding ground in your backyard

Plus, you sit around in your hottub all afternoon sipping Long Island iced teas :slurp and thinking about that 1000mm lens in your future

God, I envy you.....

J/K buddy. Super shots all

Gotta love those tri-coloreds and those spoonbills too. They sure are pretty :cry

Glad to see you are up and about again

and quit postin' so many great pics would ya?...lol

Steve

Harryb · August 16, 2005

Bird Man Photographer wrote:

Nice shots Harry. What..no mermaids over there? Nice variety of birds you have. I need to venture out a bit more and find osme "different" birds to shoot. The usual suspects are getting a tad bit ... boring. Keep them birdies comin'

Cheers

BMP

Thanks Mike. We all need to venture out more. I have more variety than most but I keep looking for ones I haven't shot yet.

MuskyDude · August 16, 2005

What, no sparrows, pigeons or seagulls? You call that diversity?

Great series Harry, love the green heron shot.

AJ

Khaos · August 16, 2005

Sometimes I'm tempted to sit by the cuckoo clock on the hour to get a bird shot.:D Cool tongue shot with the Heron and I lke the spoonbill.

bfjr · August 16, 2005

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

That's right Harry! Rub our noses in it You were never this way when you lived in NY

Most of us are lucky to find a sparrow to shoot and you've got a darn National Geographic breeding ground in your backyard Plus, you sit around in your hottub all afternoon sipping Long Island iced teas :slurp and thinking about that 1000mm lens in your future God, I envy you.....

J/K buddy. Super shots all Gotta love those tri-coloreds and those spoonbills too. They sure are pretty :cry

Glad to see you are up and about again and quit postin' so many great pics would ya?...lol

Steve

exactly you tell em Buddy !!!

No worries the raptor tree will be history soon :gun2
:uhoh

:lol

Hey Steve I may need some bail money :wow

jwear · August 17, 2005

well we got diversity just not as well shot as yours ok now how did you get the 700 on the green and have it look good do you have a noise machine there in the car [not the radio]

i used a tc 1.7 and a tripod and the 300 but with no good results -what's up with that

bochie · August 17, 2005

Great series Harry

Love the reflections on the 1st photo

Harryb · August 17, 2005

benbo wrote:

Congrat...I really like the 2 and 4 one.
BenBo

Thank you Ben. I appreciate you taking the time to comment.

Harryb · August 17, 2005

Mipik wrote:

All lovely! My favorite is #4.

Thank you very much.

pete w · August 17, 2005

I remember
When you would post all those shots of NYC buildings and people! They were great then and these are great too.

Maybe one day Andy will follow you down there!

Especially if you throw him some food.

Great shots Harry.

Trish323 · August 17, 2005

Harry,

By the looks of these shots

, I can safely assume you have recovered very well from your surgery! I am anxious to get out shooting ; but the 2 year old attached to my leg makes it impossible!

Excellent shots here Harry...I love the one with reflections, ..did you take that at the entrance to Click?

I may actually get up there this A.M for a few quickie shots...

Harryb · August 17, 2005

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

That's right Harry! Rub our noses in it You were never this way when you lived in NY

Would I do that? Yeah, you're right I would.

Most of us are lucky to find a sparrow to shoot and you've got a darn National Geographic breeding ground in your backyard Plus, you sit around in your hottub all afternoon sipping Long Island iced teas and thinking about that 1000mm lens in your future God, I envy you.....

I don't blame you. I would envy me too if I was back in NYC.

J/K buddy. Super shots all Gotta love those tri-coloreds and those spoonbills too. They sure are pretty

Thanks Steve The hard part is choosing which bird to shoot. Its great to up and about again. It was very hard not being able to shoot for close to two weeks.

Harryb · August 17, 2005

MuskyDude wrote:

What, no sparrows, pigeons or seagulls? You call that diversity? Great series Harry, love the green heron shot.
AJ

Oh we have sparrows, robins, and grackles too but they usually don't make the cut when deciding which bird to shoot.

Thanks for your kind comments.

Harryb · August 17, 2005

bfjr wrote:

exactly you tell em Buddy !!!
No worries the raptor tree will be history soon

Hey Steve I may need some bail money

:sorry :sorry

I feel sorry for all you WWs (Westcoast Wimps). Those of us in Florida have to deal with the swarms of man-eating mosquittos, hordes of ravenous fire ants, lurking gators, snakes, and tropical heat and humidity.

After a hard day of shooting I barely have the strength to open my Corona and to get into the hot tub.

Harryb · August 17, 2005

jwear wrote:

well we got diversity just not as well shot as yours ok now how did you get the 700 on the green and have it look good do you have a noise machine there in the car [not the radio] i used a tc 1.7 and a tripod and the 300 but with no good results -what's up with that

Hey Jeff,

I get up to 700mm with my 500mm lens and 1.4 TC. I tried a 1.7 on my 300mm and I was not happy with it. I found it slowed the AF performance way too much.

ginger_55 · August 17, 2005

Jeff, Ben, I have a very noisy green to put up sometime. I mean the thing is so noisy it "looks" like a supersonic boom. I had even raised the EC for it.

I think he must be closer, maybe he takes them with him in the car.:uhoh

Now, Steve, I don't think he has shown us a sparrow. We need a sparrow. When I went to Magnolia yesterday I expected to see most of those birds Harry just showed us. No spoonbills, but most.

And I thought, good gosh, you all must be tired of the same birds........I must be tired of the same birds: but not the environment.

Actually there were fewer than I have ever seen yesterday. Scary.

But Sparrows would be very good for those of us who know just where to go to "scare" up these other birds, at least for now. Though I must admit, I have not seen that many egrets together at all. Well, on a tree and not all visible. My resident GBH, he wasn't there yesterday. One green heron and one night heron: once.

And I don't have sparrows either. I may be doing seagulls shortly, while my birds fly south to Harry.

VEry nice shooting, Harry, very nice! Especially the green heron. Just my preference, since mine is so bad. Do you change the EC for the darker herons and back again for the egrets, or is the Fla sun so effective that everything is light?

ginger

Harryb · August 17, 2005

bochie wrote:

Great series Harry
Love the reflections on the 1st photo

Thank you Bochie

ginger_55 · August 17, 2005

Harryb wrote:

Hey Jeff,

I get up to 700mm with my 500mm lens and 1.4 TC. I tried a 1.7 on my 300mm and I was not happy with it. I found it slowed the AF performance way too much.

I sometimes shoot my lens "naked",

, by that I mean as a 300L, which it is, with no extender at all. I seemed to notice faster AF and that is important.

That is the whole reason, that I can think of right now for getting the 400L instead. I get the reach now, with the 400L I expect to get faster AF with the same reach.

ginger

I know I mentioned your shots, great as usual...........and the green heron.
I was seeing like 3 in a shoot, and they were closer, too. They are getting scarcer and more easily spooked, if that is possible.

Harryb · August 17, 2005

pete w wrote:

When you would post all those shots of NYC buildings and people! They were great then and these are great too.

Maybe one day Andy will follow you down there!

Especially if you throw him some food.

Great shots Harry.

Hi Pete,

You have to shoot what you got. In NYC it was the candids and the buildings, in Florida its the wildlife. I don't think Andy could handle Florida. Maybe in another year he will be up to the challenge.

Thaks for your kind words.

Harryb · August 18, 2005

Trish323 wrote:

Harry,

By the looks of these shots , I can safely assume you have recovered very well from your surgery! I am anxious to get out shooting ; but the 2 year old attached to my leg makes it impossible!

Excellent shots here Harry...I love the one with reflections, ..did you take that at the entrance to Click?

I may actually get up there this A.M for a few quickie shots...

Hey Trish,

I am recovered. Once you get detached from your grandson give me a call and we can hook at the wetlands.

That shot was taken by the entrance to the click ponds. The egrets have stopped meeting there lnow. They seem to using the first cell now by the entrance as their new meeting spot in the early morning before they go off for the day.

Trish323 · August 18, 2005

Harryb wrote:

Hey Trish,

I am recovered. Once you get detached from your grandson give me a call and we can hook at the wetlands.

That shot was taken by the entrance to the click ponds. The egrets have stopped meeting there lnow. They seem to using the first cell now by the entrance as their new meeting spot in the early morning before they go off for the day.

Harry,

Glad to hear you are doing fine. I think my grandson will have to be surgically removed from my leg

Tough to have the camera near him as he takes great joy in touching the end of the lens.
The BBW ducks and d'lings were in the first pond yesterday...i thought it was nice of them to greet me like that. impossible trying to shoot birds at 1:30 pm

Harryb · August 18, 2005

ginger_55 wrote:

Jeff, Ben, I have a very noisy green to put up sometime. I mean the thing is so noisy it "looks" like a supersonic boom. I had even raised the EC for it.

I think he must be closer, maybe he takes them with him in the car.:uhoh

Now, Steve, I don't think he has shown us a sparrow. We need a sparrow. When I went to Magnolia yesterday I expected to see most of those birds Harry just showed us. No spoonbills, but most.

And I thought, good gosh, you all must be tired of the same birds........I must be tired of the same birds: but not the environment.

Actually there were fewer than I have ever seen yesterday. Scary.

But Sparrows would be very good for those of us who know just where to go to "scare" up these other birds, at least for now. Though I must admit, I have not seen that many egrets together at all. Well, on a tree and not all visible. My resident GBH, he wasn't there yesterday. One green heron and one night heron: once.

And I don't have sparrows either. I may be doing seagulls shortly, while my birds fly south to Harry.

VEry nice shooting, Harry, very nice! Especially the green heron. Just my preference, since mine is so bad. Do you change the EC for the darker herons and back again for the egrets, or is the Fla sun so effective that everything is light?

ginger

Thank you Ginger. I change my EV constantly. The light is always changing and the EV has to be adjusted accordingly. If you shoot a bunch of shots w/o checking your EV settings you will be sure to have a good number of over or under exposed shots.

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