Misc...

BigAl

Some miscellaneous birds from my recent outings to a local nature reserve:

Wattled Plover




Mrs Stone Chat (included as I like the OOF flowers):




Rufousnaped Lark singing:




Pied Starling looking for insects (yes that really is what you think it is in his bill):




Cattle Egret (really nice lighting):






European Roller (really horrible light - used HDR to try and recover it a bit):

samuel wong

i love the last 1 , really a nice shot .....

Giphsub

Great set BigAl That wattled plover sure is an interesting looking bird! The cattle egret shots are very nice

Ric Grupe

I like the first Cattle Egret because you managed to get the green area as a backdrop. His color kind of gets lost in the dirt on the second one.

Interesting!

jwear

another set of different birds -- thanks

Harryb

Excellent set Al.

BigAl

samuel wong wrote:

i love the last 1 , really a nice shot .....

Thanks Samuel! Glad you like it, I just wish the highlights weren't so blown out on the back.

Jack'll do

Wonderful captures Al, however the lighting on the cattle egret makes it outstanding. Always interesting to see new and unusual birds we don't get to encounter up here.

BigAl

Giphsub wrote:

Great set BigAl That wattled plover sure is an interesting looking bird! The cattle egret shots are very nice

Thanks Mike!

dbaker1221

loved em Al...more stuff I've never seen before:ivar

Maestro

Great set of more uncommon birds, at least to me. The cattle egrets are very nicely exposed.

BigAl

Ric Grupe wrote:

I like the first Cattle Egret because you managed to get the green area as a backdrop. His color kind of gets lost in the dirt on the second one.

Interesting!

Thanks Ric. Never thought of it like that

BigAl

jwear wrote:

another set of different birds -- thanks

Thank YOU Jeff!

BigAl

Harryb wrote:

Excellent set Al.

Thanks for the kind words Harry!

BigAl

Jack'll do wrote:

Wonderful captures Al, however the lighting on the cattle egret makes it outstanding. Always interesting to see new and unusual birds we don't get to encounter up here.

Thanks Jack!

raptorcaptor

Great set Big Al! Like the last two best!

tong

Excellent pictures. Did you do any post processing for sharpness?

BigAl

dbaker1221 wrote:

loved em Al...more stuff I've never seen before:ivar

Thanks Dave - will try and find some more for you once the migrants start gathering.

BigAl

Maestro wrote:

Great set of more uncommon birds, at least to me. The cattle egrets are very nicely exposed.

Thanks Stephen - the metering on the 40d is a whole lot better than the 350d I'm finding!

BigAl

raptorcaptor wrote:

Great set Big Al! Like the last two best!

Thanks Glenn! Wish I could have got that last one in better light :cry

BigAl

tong wrote:

Excellent pictures. Did you do any post processing for sharpness?

Thanks Tong! I only used very light sharpening on these (0.6 75-100, 0) as they were pretty good out of the camera.