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HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
edited April 12, 2007 in Wildlife
We still have a few birds left at the Viera Wetlands after the MI IV shooters packed up and went home

a soggy limpkin
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a northern shoveler in its mating colors
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a few sandhills
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a bald eagle
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a red shouldered hawk
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we had a snowy egret but the grackle ran him off
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almost got the flip
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Harry
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2007
    Oh sure rub it in, go ahead see if I care rolleyes1.gif

    Not much to say about your shots these days, ran out of superlatives

    I do have to single out the RSH capture, very cool catch on that one ylsuper.gif
    exquisite exp and timing !
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  • Louis ChampanLouis Champan Registered Users Posts: 110 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2007
    Harry, these are all great shots. The colors on the Shoveler are impressive and the Red Shouldered Hawk is excellent.

    Louie
  • raptorcaptorraptorcaptor Registered Users Posts: 3,968 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2007
    Nice set Harry! clap.gif
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  • JenGraceJenGrace Registered Users Posts: 1,229 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2007
    I love the hawk, especially, but those shots of the egret getting chased off by the grackle are great! rolleyes1.gif
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  • JillGJillG Registered Users Posts: 285 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2007
    Beautiful set clap.gif. Each one is special, but it's just amazing you nailed the esposure of a black grackle and white egret in several shots and they're in great focus bowdown.gif
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  • ShepsMomShepsMom Registered Users Posts: 4,319 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2007
    #7 is funny! The Dancing Egret. Wowzeee! Harry, you're the God of bird shooting! clap.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2007
    bfjr wrote:
    Oh sure rub it in, go ahead see if I care rolleyes1.gif

    Not much to say about your shots these days, ran out of superlatives

    I do have to single out the RSH capture, very cool catch on that one ylsuper.gif
    exquisite exp and timing !

    Rub it in !!!!!!! :nah I didn't even mention THE TREE. :ivar

    Thanks for the kind words. That RSH took off so fast I didn't think I got the shot but I was a happy camper when I reviewed it on the PC screen.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2007
    Louis Champan wrote:
    Harry, these are all great shots. The colors on the Shoveler are impressive and the Red Shouldered Hawk is excellent.

    Louie

    Thanks Loouie. Its always amazing to see the colros the birds take on when mating season starts.
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2007
    This one is terrific, Harry! iloveyou.gif

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  • dbaker1221dbaker1221 Registered Users Posts: 4,482 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    another fantastic set !!:ivar
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    Harryb wrote:
    Rub it in !!!!!!! :nah I didn't even mention THE TREE. :ivar

    Thanks for the kind words. That RSH took off so fast I didn't think I got the shot but I was a happy camper when I reviewed it on the PC screen.
    I got one the same way but a RTH and did you have the tree /post ne_nau.gifheadscratch.gif was there an eagle in that set headscratch.gifeek7.gif I better look again rolleyes1.gif
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  • SeefutlungSeefutlung Registered Users Posts: 2,781 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    Just more good stuff. I do appreciate your ability to self critique separating the wheat from the chaft .... I am never disappointed.

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    raptorcaptor wrote:
    Nice set Harry! clap.gif

    Thnak you very much Glenn.
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  • sskoutassskoutas Registered Users Posts: 437 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    Top-shelf, Harry... I think that red shouldered is magnificent! Wonderful series, top to bottom!
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2007
    JenW wrote:
    I love the hawk, especially, but those shots of the egret getting chased off by the grackle are great! rolleyes1.gif

    Thanks Jen the shots with the grackle are my favorites in the set.
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited April 10, 2007
    Really super set here, Harry. thumb.gifthumb

    I don't understand how that silly little grackle can run off an egret though. Wouldn't have believed it unless I'd seen it.

    Loved the raptors. iloveyou.gif

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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2007
    Great set Harry, that hawk is a winner! thumb.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2007
    JillG wrote:
    Beautiful set clap.gif. Each one is special, but it's just amazing you nailed the esposure of a black grackle and white egret in several shots and they're in great focus bowdown.gif
    Jill

    Thanks Jill. I used a smaller aperture than I normally would have to keep them in focus. I lucked out when the female grackle came out because she's a light brown. If a male grackle had come out, they are black, I would have been in trouble with the exposure.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2007
    ShepsMom wrote:
    #7 is funny! The Dancing Egret. Wowzeee! Harry, you're the God of bird shooting! clap.gif

    Snowys are fun to shoot because they are so expressive.

    Hmmm, a god???? headscratch.gif Nah, I'm already a mod, that would be a demotion. :lol4
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2007
    Ric Grupe wrote:
    This one is terrific, Harry! iloveyou.gif

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    Thanks Ric. It was a lucky catch. He moved so fats and rigth at me taht all I could do was react and hope I had the right settings.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2007
    dbaker1221 wrote:
    another fantastic set !!:ivar

    Thanks Dave wave.gif
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2007
    jwear wrote:
    I got one the same way but a RTH and did you have the tree /post ne_nau.gifheadscratch.gif was there an eagle in that set headscratch.gifeek7.gif I better look again rolleyes1.gif

    Yep, you better look again Jeff. :rutt
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2007
    Seefutlung wrote:
    Just more good stuff. I do appreciate your ability to self critique separating the wheat from the chaft .... I am never disappointed.

    Gary

    Thanks Gary. I'm lucky, my bad shots stand out so well its not hard to "separate the wheat from the chaff". :lol
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2007
    sskoutas wrote:
    Top-shelf, Harry... I think that red shouldered is magnificent! Wonderful series, top to bottom!

    Thanks Stephen, as I said before that shot was a lucky reaction shot. That sucker took me completley by surprise when he took off.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2007
    kdog wrote:
    Really super set here, Harry. thumb.gifthumb

    I don't understand how that silly little grackle can run off an egret though. Wouldn't have believed it unless I'd seen it.

    Loved the raptors. iloveyou.gif

    -joel

    Thanks Joel. its not uncommon to see the little birds harass the larger ones. I've seen grackles go after an osprey after it had caught a fish (that was safe the osprey's talons were occupied holding onto its catch), I've seen a mockingbird drive a caracara off its perch, and recently I saw a blackbird harass a perching eagle.

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2007
    BigAl wrote:
    Great set Harry, that hawk is a winner! thumb.gif

    Thank you Al.
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