Show us some bird shots...16

These threads are always so interesting that I forget to note how many pages they have run to.

Could the next person with a new shot to post please start "Show us some bird shots...17" (without the quotes of course).

Edited by brettania - 26 January 2009 at 11:32

I was at the Gannet Colony at Muriwai Beach, and caught these:

α700 | Pentax SMC Takumar 300/f4 | 1/2500sec | f4 | ISO400



α700 | Minolta 28-135/f4-4.5 | 1/640sec | f5.6 | ISO100


α700 | Minolta 28-135/f4-4.5 | 1/1250sec | f7.1 | ISO200


Edited by zk-cessnaguy - 26 January 2009 at 11:27

Nice birds John, but the bridge shot is also special.

On a warmer sunny Sunday Morning the wife and I took a drive across the Sunshine Skyway to the beaches along Bradenton Bay and Sarasota.
Blue sky without a cloud in the sky but a heavy morning mist shrouded the bridge.



We pulled into the rest stop at the base of the bridge and there we found American White Pelicans swimming in the misty bay.


American Pelicans are a winter visitor south of the bay but Brown Pelicans are year round on both sides of the bay.


On the beaches of Long Boat Key we found Laughing Gulls and Ring Billed Gulls


Among the Royal and Fosters Terns we found Sandwich Terns


Higher up on the beach were a group of Sanderlings taking a nap.


At the very top edge of the beach I saw a bird moving and I moved up to investigate and almost stepped on the Snowy Plover who stayed still for a photo.


After all the photo taking a hearty meal at St Armands Circle on Siesta Key and the long drive home.

Edited by TBMike - 26 January 2009 at 13:14

Here are a few of mine from today. They could be much much sharper as the shutter speed is way too low for the focal length (Sigma 100-300/4 with a Sigma 1.4x TC multiplication factor not shown in the exif as the Sigma TC is not chipped). The SSS of course helps somewhat and the IQ of the A900 is kind of forgiving allowing plenty of sharpening in PP but I have to pay more attention to shutter speeds next outing. I also don't know why they are at iso 160, I thought I set it at 100 or 200 (my mistake obviously) not that it makes a big difference... Also they are all cropped, some more (the sparrow) some less (the eagle).

1/60s f/6.3 at 300.0mm iso160


1/80s f/8.0 at 300.0mm iso160


1/80s f/6.3 at 300.0mm iso160


1/100s f/8.0 at 210.0mm iso800


Darren

Edited by Dumont - 26 January 2009 at 04:33

nice arescrew, 4hours but the picture was worth it I think.

Agree, very nice falcons, both of them.

Don't have any BIF's, only a BIC (Bird in the cold)


A700 + 100-400APO