The Limpkin (and other wildlife)

HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
edited December 18, 2004 in The Big Picture
Hi you'll,

I was walking the other day and I ran into my neighborhood's resident limpkin. Its one of our more uncommon birds and doesn't get the same press as herons and egrets. It was named for its odd limping gait. Its 26-28 inches long and has a wing span of 42 inches. Its favorite food is snails but will settle for other crustaceans and frogs. It has a loud wailing scream that Hollywood found cool and used it in the soundtracks of the early Tarzan movies.

Here's the limpkin searching for lunch. You can see by the ground around it that it has been a busy limpkin.

Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    having found a snack the limpkin uses its long selnder bill to open it
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    now open its chow time. As Andy says "its all about the food".
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  • John MuellerJohn Mueller Registered Users Posts: 2,555 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    Harryb wrote:
    having found a snack the limpkin uses its long selnder bill to open it
    Great capture Harrythumb.gif
    Care to share your settings?
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    my settings John
    MHJS wrote:
    Great capture Harrythumb.gif
    Care to share your settings?
    John
    Hey John,

    Thanks for taking the time to comment. My settings with my D100 and 80-400 lens were: ISO 320 (the limpkin was in shadows and he was moving so I needed to keep the shutter speed up); aperture priority; exposure compensation +.07ev (he's a fairly dark fellow and was in shadows); matrix metering; 1/400 sec at f7.1; white balance cloudy (adjusted in Capture 4.1 by setting a grey point); in camera noise reduction and sharpening off and tone comp set to less contrast; color mode was Adobe RGB

    Harry
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    su-weeeeeeeeeeeet!
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  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    Those are very nice Harry, thanks for sharing them. You are building quite a colection of quality birds.

    We dont get this guy up here on the north coast
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    Harry, really nice job saving that first shot. I could tell he was in the shadows and the backlight is pretty powerful. But you did a great job lightning his head and neck and making them sharp. Looks great. thumb.gif
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    Great bird lunch observation
    Harryb wrote:
    Here's the limpkin searching for lunch. You can see by the ground around it that it has been a busy limpkin.

    Next you should get a kyack and paddle around these ponds -- opps, forgot about the gators!

    I love the series showing the hunt and success for lunch.
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    good one
    great set Harry [i ordered the lens today] but if you follow up on above, you may get some great gator shots but take the close up glass rolleyes1.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    Hey Andy
    andy wrote:
    su-weeeeeeeeeeeet!
    thank you.

    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    Greaper
    GREAPER wrote:
    Those are very nice Harry, thanks for sharing them. You are building quite a colection of quality birds.

    Thanks. Living in Florida makes it kind of easy to coolect bird shots.

    We dont get this guy up here on the north coast
    We don't get limpkins down here too often either. Usually they are very shy and don't let folks get too close. Fortunately the pond by our nature trail is chock full of the limpkin's favorite food and its close to the trail so this guy has gotten used to having humans close by.

    Harry
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    fake bird
    Harryb wrote:
    Usually they are very shy and don't let folks get too close.
    Harry

    h, you 've learned to sneak up on critters?
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    kind of like candids in NYC
    andy wrote:
    h, you 've learned to sneak up on critters?
    Actually yes. It was part of one of my workshops at the Wildlife and Birding Festival. You never look at their eyes, approach on a zig zag (they don't have great depth perception and it will appear that you are not walking towards them), and approach slowly. I was helped here because the limpkin was a lot like you, once you guys are feeding nothing else matters.

    I also cheated by putting on my limpkin costume. rolleyes1.gif

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    Hey Sid
    wxwax wrote:
    Harry, really nice job saving that first shot. I could tell he was in the shadows and the backlight is pretty powerful. But you did a great job lightning his head and neck and making them sharp. Looks great. thumb.gif
    Thank you for the kind comments. This is where my recent workshop with Ron Reznick paid off. Prior to the workshop I would have blown the exposure and would have had to do some layer masks to bring out the shadows and a lot of noise along with it too.

    Harry
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    how harry really attracts all those birds
    Harryb wrote:
    Actually yes. It was part of one of my workshops at the Wildlife and Birding Festival. You never look at their eyes, approach on a zig zag (they don't have great depth perception and it will appear that you are not walking towards them), and approach slowly. I was helped here because the limpkin was a lot like you, once you guys are feeding nothing else matters.

    I also cheated by putting on my limpkin costume. rolleyes1.gif

    Harry

    hearing that costume remark, i went back and looked at some pics from some of our shoots in nyc. strangely enough, i found this:

    12589992-L.jpg
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  • John MuellerJohn Mueller Registered Users Posts: 2,555 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    andy wrote:
    hearing that costume remark, i went back and looked at some pics from some of our shoots in nyc. strangely enough, i found this:

    12589992-S.jpg
    This is one of the best shots Ive seen of Harry.Only in NYC.
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  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited December 11, 2004
    :heh
    andy wrote:
    hearing that costume remark, i went back and looked at some pics from some of our shoots in nyc. strangely enough, i found this:
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2004
    Hey Dee
    Dee wrote:
    Next you should get a kyack and paddle around these ponds -- opps, forgot about the gators!

    I love the series showing the hunt and success for lunch.
    I'm staying on dry land for awhile. I took a wildlife cruise this weekend and between the dark skies and the rocking of the boat got some really lousy shots. :cry

    Glad you enjoyed the pics.

    Harry
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2004
    andy wrote:
    hearing that costume remark, i went back and looked at some pics from some of our shoots in nyc. strangely enough, i found this:

    12589992-S.jpg
    :roll rolleyes1.gifthumb.gif

    Excellent!
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2004
    Don't need no canoe or close lens Jeff
    jwear wrote:
    great set Harry [i ordered the lens today] but if you follow up on above, you may get some great gator shots but take the close up glass rolleyes1.gif
    just a little bit of guile and stupidity mwink.gif

    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2004
    two can play Andy
    harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2004
    then there's
    the famous flying pig incident
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2004
    Harryb wrote:
    the famous flying pig incident
    rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif
    Sid.
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  • Trish323Trish323 Registered Users Posts: 908 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2004
    Nice Capture! I give you 100% credit, Harry, for teaching me the names of the birds....Using a name is so much better than me saying "the brown one...ne_nau.gif
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2004
    Great shots, Harry! I especially like the one of you and your "catch" in the New York subway, I assume that is where it is. Classic shot.

    And the serious bird shot is good, too.

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2004
    Hey Trish
    Good seeing you over here. Glad you liked the pic.

    Harry
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  • John MuellerJohn Mueller Registered Users Posts: 2,555 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2004
    Hey Harry,was #22 A shot of Andy in Times Square?
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2004
    ginger_55 wrote:
    Great shots, Harry! I especially like the one of you and your "catch" in the New York subway, I assume that is where it is. Classic shot.

    Thanks but I may have to get all of Andy's pics of me away from that man. I never should have told him about Mask Pro.


    And the serious bird shot is good, too.

    Thank you.

    Harry
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited December 12, 2004
    Harryb wrote:
    ginger_55 wrote:
    Thanks but I may have to get all of Andy's pics of me away from that man.



    Harry

    harry always shoots with a friend. here he is in nyc's times square

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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited December 12, 2004
    andy wrote:
    harry always shoots with a friend. here he is in nyc's times square

    12621536-L.jpg

    What a great picture.
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