bird ID please, also, is this too tight?

ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
edited October 15, 2005 in Wildlife
I spooked this bird, only shot I got. This is too tight for the assignment, right? This is right out of RAW, not worked up, not cropped, nothing. Just want to get the right feel for assignment, this is too tight, I think. Also I need an ID, please. Will work it up later, I am sure. ginger

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    i can't id it because it's a bird butt lol3.gif

    ginger - you shoot a lot of birds, why not wait until you get a full-frontal :D it will be much more interesting deal.gif
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Maybe...headscratch.gif


    ...a female or young Marsh Hawk?
  • GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Bird Man Photographer wrote:
    Looks like it has an extended neck?ne_nau.gif I was thinkng a heron of some sort? headscratch.gif
    American Bittern!

    That's my guess after looking in my Peterson's field guide.ne_nau.gif
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  • GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Btw
    GraphyFotoz wrote:
    American Bittern!

    That's my guess after looking in my Peterson's field guide.ne_nau.gif
    It's on page 104-105 in Peterson's Eastern Birds.:D
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Bird Man Photographer wrote:
    Looks like it has an extended neck?ne_nau.gif I was thinkng a heron of some sort? headscratch.gif
    Hard to say. I was trying to see if there was a hook at the end of the beak. The shallow "V" of it's flight made me think "hunter".
  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Ginger

    When I first saw it, before reading any other post was American Bittern.

    For comparison, this is an American Bittern

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    The stripped breast we can see a little of in your shot looks right, and the bittern is a heron type bird with maybe a slightly shorter neck than your average egret or Great Blue.

    Does this look like the bird you shot?
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  • GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Few places to check my id
    http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/Infocenter/i1900id.html

    http://www.canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/english/species/birds/birdpages/bot_len.htm
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  • larry llarry l Registered Users Posts: 25 Big grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    ginger_55 wrote:
    I spooked this bird, only shot I got. This is too tight for the assignment, right? This is right out of RAW, not worked up, not cropped, nothing. Just want to get the right feel for assignment, this is too tight, I think. Also I need an ID, please. Will work it up later, I am sure. ginger
    black or yellow crowned night-heron. Hard to tell with the light.
  • ysr612ysr612 Registered Users Posts: 148 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    I too thought Bittern or v. rail.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited October 15, 2005
    Thanks, I wondered if it was a Night Heron. I could print up a photo and ask them at the nature place.??

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
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