Birds Of A Different Feather

raian

Got these shots this morning at my neighbor's. I must say, they were all very uncooperative in posing and I had to sneak around in a croched position as I tried to avoid slipping in goose poop... but all in all I was pleased with the results. Enjoy.

Osprey Whisperer

I'm hoping those last two birds are not making fun of the way the wood storks look...'cause they have little room to talk.

Where is the peacock's featehrs??

Thanks for sharing your shots. Nice job.

saurora

Nice shots Raian. The turkey shot is your best, to me. Very sharp detail, good DOF, nicely composed, and I like the background. What lens were you using?

raian

Thanks for the comments. I've tried, unsuccessfully, to get the peacock to fan his tail. I'll get it one of these days.

I was shooting with a sigma 70-200 zoom. I like the turkey too, he's a cool bird but very shy.

ginger_55

Those are quite nice, Rain!

I sit a lot, let the birds move around me. Well, I am old! But it seems to settle the birds. They never have done anything I have told them to do.

Also, I read that birds have strong sense of smell, that it takes them at least 15 minutes not to freak that we are there.

I know they notice movement. I am getting the same way. Most of my "bird" signals come from movement. Birds seem to freeze a lot, the big ones. I am sure that is a safety thing. If they don't move, they won't be noticed by the danger. So sitting quietly for over 15 minutes helps with me, too. If I had done it last night I would have gotten more shots. Only got one good one, and if I had not gotten that.........meanwhile, back where I started, birds were moving around, if I had just sat there.........well, I am after a flight shot right now, and I might have gotten one. (I got a good one of a green heron perched on a cool old crab trap, and that was after putting my life at risk and taking at least 20 shots of him, and I only got one. Sure am glad I got one.)

But I would have been as well off sitting back where I started from. It was very windy! Birds were not "out".

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raian

Thanks for the advice, ginger. I know that if I sit and wait on birds, they WILL come. I just haven't been as patient as I need to be.

Sat on my porch the other morning for almost an hour, finally, FINALLY, a beautiful cardinal landed right by my feeder. Dummy me did not have the camera on.. thought something had malfunctioned, and when I had to move the camera to look, the bird flew off. Arrrrgggghhhh..

I need Jedi training I suppose

riddim_maker

Seems like the goose was the most cooperative of the bunch. Nice capture nontheless. Must be nice to have such a variety of fowl next door.

raian

Thanks Russ. Yes it is nice to have so many birds at my disposal. My neighboor has a bunch of different animals at his place. I went over with the sole purpose of shooting some canadian geese on the pond, but they didn't want to swim this morning and lead me around the woods. So I started snapping other birds instead

Harryb

The turkey shot is outstanding. Well composed, good detail, and a very cool background.

raian

Thanks Harry. Coming from you that is truly a compliment:D

I'd like to say this is a wild turkey, but alas, it's my neighbor's pet.. but he is still rather shy and won't turn for a front on head shot.. he's constantly moving away from me.

vangogh

raian wrote:

Thanks for the comments. I've tried, unsuccessfully, to get the peacock to fan his tail. I'll get it one of these days.

I was shooting with a sigma 70-200 zoom. I like the turkey too, he's a cool bird but very shy.

Personally I like the peacocks head. I love the colours & his head comb (or whatever its called). When I went to Kentwell a few weeks ago, they had a peacock and he was a very proud one, fanned his tail quite a lot & I took quite a few shots, but because I'd had to keep a few feet away I'd had to use the zoom heavily on the fuji & when I downloaded all the pics, they were all soft! Such a disapointment as some of the shots would have been great otherwise. Still, when I get my DSLR.......!