Stilts and Avocets and Ibis's Oh My!

Rohirrim

Spent the morning crawling up to get a little closer to our local shorebirds and I'd like to share some of my captures.

American Avocet in flight. (Lighting not so great)

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Kildeer

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Black-necked Stilt. I think I got the exposure better on this guy this AM, kinda boring back-ground though.

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American Avocet- these guys are a lot prettier in their breeding plumage.

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2 White-faced Ibis in flight. These guys look very similar to the Glossy Ibis, however I don't believe the Glossy gets this far Northwest.

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Thank you for looking,

bfjr

Nice set Steve
#2 & 3 have that nice catch light in the eye which gives life to your image. Not easy to do and you done good

jwear

Steve now these are really nice -sharp [i had to look the word up still have not found it in my camera ] great color detail

Harryb

Very good set with the Ibis bif the strongest shot. The avocet and stilt are a wee bit OE.

Rohirrim

bfjr wrote:

Nice set Steve
#2 & 3 have that nice catch light in the eye which gives life to your image. Not easy to do and you done good

Thanks Ben, I see what you mean about that Light in the Eye.

Rohirrim

jwear wrote:

Steve now these are really nice -sharp [i had to look the word up still have not found it in my camera ] great color detail

Thanks Jeff. I think selective sharpening really helps a lot of these bird images.

Rohirrim

Harryb wrote:

Very good set with the Ibis bif the strongest shot. The avocet and stilt are a wee bit OE.

Thanks for the comments Harry. What do you think of this version of the stilt. I knocked the exposure down in RAW -.25. Would you go more to the whole image or just darken the white breast?


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jwear

Rohirrim wrote:

Thanks Jeff. I think selective sharpening really helps a lot of these bird images.

now that would be a good tutotrail, selective sharpening .I still do very little to my stuff but this wold be good to know

Ric Grupe

We have Kildeer...
...that skitter along right out our back door. They are differant...what a call!

Interesting and well done shots.