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  • A photo of interesting contrasts, if not perhaps the sort of photo I'd choose to celebrate my birthday.

  • Is that a Hooded Crow, leucistic crow (i.e. some of its feathers, but not all, have gone white) or something else?

  • Now that's how to photo swallows.

  • Ack, mind reader!

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    Collared Dove

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    Fools Game

  • I really feel "Ancient Egyptian" should really be reserved for the times before the Ptolemies - I was excited by the title until I realised it's all Greek to me.

  • Thank you - rather more different to the UK's Red Fox than I was expecting.

  • What even is it? It's probably the angle of the shot but the head seems out of proportion to the body, in a weird chimera like form.

  • Magpie

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  • The original JPG is a terrifying 28MB, 5464x8192 pixels.

    Lemmy wasn't even prepared to play with something half that height and width, so I had to go thirds. I'm not sure if its file size or pixel dimensions (JPGs have some compression, sometimes, even at 100% quality, so a little hard to be sure).

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    Magpie

  • My poor UK brain went "Ah-ha, Linnet" until I saw it was a US post - and Google suggests the two species probably have no close genetic link.

    But nice photo!

  • Thank you.

    There is a particular joy to catching drops in the air, isn't there? And pleasingly, really slow shots of moving water are also fun.

    Those are 1/1250s, and I can rarely get good enough light to push it beyond that speed with my setup. Aperture set to minimum for 800mm which is 6.3

    The ISO is set to auto, but chose ISO500 for at least one of those - quality detectably starts to fall off around ISO2000, so perhaps I could have risked faster if I knew what was coming.

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    Where Herons Attack

  • Good luck - given your current work, I look forward to the results.

    One thing that took me a while to get used to was the variety of AF modes - from full view to exactly that point, dammit, I don't care how dull you think it is.

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    Run for it!

  • Oh, that's a fun project, nicely put together.

  • You only think them plain as you see them so many times. Coming from the UK (where, OK, are birds tend to ... subtle ... in appearance), those are some pretty little birds.

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    Christmas Card Candidate

  • Are you sure its not a squirrel's drey?

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    Blue Tit

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    Marsh Harrier

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    Goldfinch (my interpretation)

  • With that selection, I'm surprised there's no tits as they fill an obvious niche. The will need a bit of greenery though (just a private garden should do). Have you tried getting a bird feeder? Otherwise find a city park.

  • I'm curious - in the UK I would have called that a Goldcrest or perhaps Firecrest: a Goldfinch being very different. Is this another case of different places, different names?

    Nice sharp action photo either way!

  • TY - I was guessing a far faster shutter speed

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    Sun and Star(ling)s

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    Female Blackbird and Twigs

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    Blackcap

  • Now this is something that definitely deserves asking about camera, lens, ISO and speed!

  • The photos are nice, but this "exchange" is a delight.

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    Cute Fluffballs

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    Nest Time

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    Couple of Mallards

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    Dunnock

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    Pecked from Both Side

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    Chaffinch