What birds or bird have you seen today – communal thread, I hope!

Ryewolf said:
And a rather distant female Kestrel (at least I think so...)

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Correct (y)
 
Having parted with my Nikon D7200 I am now left with a relatively lowly D3100 to play with before I decide which body I want next. The D500 seems the way forward but the D850 is looking very tempting. Anyway, enough gear talk.

Below is a chaffinch taken in very dark overcast light with the D3100/Sigma 150-600C set-up. It is not the best image but at least I was able to capture something !

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gary43 said:
Having parted with my Nikon D7200 I am now left with a relatively lowly D3100 to play with before I decide which body I want next. The D500 seems the way forward but the D850 is looking very tempting. Anyway, enough gear talk.

Below is a chaffinch taken in very dark overcast light with the D3100/Sigma 150-600C set-up. It is not the best image but at least I was able to capture something !

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Not bad at all Gary, lovely accurate colours and some decent feather detail, background twigs are all part of its environment. :)
 
gramps said:
Not bad at all Gary, lovely accurate colours and some decent feather detail, background twigs are all part of its environment. :)
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Hi gramps, thanks for the kind words. Annoyingly, the sun is now shining here but I have things to do; such is the joy of wildlife photography !

Also, the D3100 is unbelievably sluggish to focus compared to the D7200, I was pleased to capture anything at all, really.

Thanks again.

Gary.
 
Another from earlier. I know it is not a great shot or unusual bird, and this one took a lot of recovering in photoshop, but I was delighted that my new low-budget wildlife camera body (D3100) did a good job in very tricky conditions. As we all know, these are filtty little birds.

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I have a flock of black headed gulls that like me to feed them , They are very tame now and stand on the handrails of my boat , Quite content for about 10 minutes then they start shouting , Just incase I have not noticed them, they stand into the wind , The light was behind the bird

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@Kinobe two nice shots but the Kez is a beauty (y)
 
I've not been around much lately, but after a quick catch up, there are some cracking images posted guys (y)

Just a boring one from me, not sure what that is on its back, but it does look like it has its own camera :D

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More for ID than anything, the beach was littered with them. Sandpipers?
Heavy crops, I was only shooting landscape with a 24-105 crop body.

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And the only good gull is one that is leaving...
( those that know what I do for a living will understand :D )

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Cobra said:
More for ID than anything, the beach was littered with them. Sandpipers?
Heavy crops, I was only shooting landscape with a 24-105 crop body.

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Light coloured ones I think are Sanderlings and the darker ones look like Turnstones, no doubt someone will be ready to jump in if I'm not right!
 
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