enough of this bird snobbery

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2005
    canon 20d, canon 200 f/1.8L... 1/6400th sec, f/1.8, iso 100

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  • larklark Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2005
    andy wrote:
    canon 20d, canon 200 f/1.8L... 1/6400th sec, f/1.8, iso 100
    QUOTE]

    LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS! .......whoah!!!!



    How long before you sell this one?
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  • larklark Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2005
    regular birds on the beach this morning..........our local winged rats.
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  • larklark Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2005
    a BIF
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  • larklark Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2005
    ...and another
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  • larklark Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2005
    Bif #3
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  • larklark Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2005
    making the turn
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  • larklark Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2005
    ...and finally resting
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  • larklark Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2005
    then there was this guy ...just watching it all...taking it in....
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  • larklark Registered Users Posts: 155 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2005
    lark wrote:
    then there was this guy ...just watching it all...taking it in....

    Thanks for looking :D:D
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2005
    lovely shots, denny - and everyone else who's participated in this thread thumb.gif

    that night heron, he's kewl!
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited April 11, 2005
    from the baylands, palo alto, last week. 20d, 70-200 f/2.8L i.s. with 1.4x tc aboard.

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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2005
    I wanna play some more
    Nice one Andy, and all the have (con't too :D) contribute here. You folks are all so good, really not just sayin cheerleader.gif.
    So lets see some more, LURKERS WELCOME TO JOIN IN :cool

    Here's some more:
    Like the light here on face :D
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    and the ever present gull
    I like Andy's perspective better :D
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  • Jerry CurtisJerry Curtis Registered Users Posts: 170 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2005
    Okies... a few of my winged friends...
    Bluejay on my back patio - shot thru dining room window (double pane), with the 1.7X tele converter on my V1. The streaks are snowflakes.

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    Brown Boobie (yeah... that's right mwink.gif ) wheeling above our cruise ship off the west coast of Mexico - normal 4X lens on V1:

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    Seagull over Quidi Vidi Lake in St. John's - with just the normal 4X zoom on my V1:

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    Evening Grosbeak at our backyard feeder. Not a common sighting here. (with 1.7X tele):

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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2005
    Great contribution Jerry thumb.gif

    But:


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    A "Brown Boobie" headscratch.gifD I think he/she belongs in the snob section, or a thread of his own. :D
    Thanks for sharing
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  • John MuellerJohn Mueller Registered Users Posts: 2,555 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2005
    Fun post.
    Ill add a couple more.
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  • Jerry CurtisJerry Curtis Registered Users Posts: 170 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2005
    A "Brown Boobie" headscratch.gifD I think he/she belongs in the snob section, or a thread of his own. :D
    Thanks for sharing
    Yeahhh... maybe, but to a northerner, like me, he was just a "dressed-up" seagull rolleyes1.gif

    Some amazing bird shots in this post, folks. clap.gif Must be some heavy glass in the possession of some of you mwink.gif
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  • traunerktraunerk Registered Users Posts: 513 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2005
    A common Common Grackle...
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  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2005
    traunerk wrote:
    Grackles crack me up..1drink.gif

    Regards...Keith

    Nice, I have been tryin to get a grackle for a while, they are tough to expose.

    How about a Tufted titmouse?


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    or a sparrow?

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  • traunerktraunerk Registered Users Posts: 513 Major grins
    edited April 12, 2005
    I'll see your titmouse and sparrow and raise you by three wood ducks and a porcupine:D


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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2005
    traunerk wrote:
    I'll see your titmouse and sparrow and raise you by three wood ducks and a porcupine:D

    hold up partner, I'll see your titmouse/sparrow/wood ducks/porcupine

    and raise you

    squirrel, 2 ducks, several pigeon & a tiny sparrow :D :lol4

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  • PuddlewalkerPuddlewalker Registered Users Posts: 2 Beginner grinner
    edited April 13, 2005
    First Post - Raven
    bfjr wrote:
    hold up partner, I'll see your titmouse/sparrow/wood ducks/porcupine

    and raise you

    squirrel, 2 ducks, several pigeon & a tiny sparrow :D :lol4
    Hope I don't screw up your poker hand -
    Thought I would try to post a picture - first time.
    Raven in Bryce Canyon.
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    That was easy - maybe one more.

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    I'm not Chicken - any more to post. (Wild Chicken in Kauai)
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  • gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2005
    A few repeats I'm afraid
    Pigeons
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  • gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2005
    and some swans
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2005
    this on rocks Gus thumb.gif

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  • GSPePGSPeP Registered Users Posts: 3,981 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2005
    Caught these two seagulls in flight the day before yesterday. Lighting conditions weren't very good: just before sunset.

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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2005
    Gubbs, this is beautiful. Have you tried the Cletus method to lighten the head a wee bit?

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  • PrezwoodzPrezwoodz Registered Users Posts: 1,147 Major grins
    edited April 13, 2005
    Heres mine. Steller blue jays i believe :) They were eating our smores before we got to!!!
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  • KhaosKhaos Registered Users Posts: 2,435 Major grins
    edited April 14, 2005
    The late evening bird can still get a worm, so screw getting up early.


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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited April 24, 2005
    Let's give this thread a fresh kick !!
    Like the colors in these shots, sooooooooo I thought I'd bump this thread one moooooorrrrrrreeeeeeee time :lol4. Hope you don't mind :D

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