Weekly Challenge #5 (07/30 - 08/05) - BIRDS

[Eric Mayer]

Please post your pictures for this week's Weekly Challenge, which is "Birds". Okay, I know last week's was a bit tough and some of us already posted some bird shots under the "Animals" challenge, but I'm sure everyone has access to grab some shots of birds. Have fun with it, try some new compositions, maybe try some shots of birds you wouldn't normally take.

As always, please post all camera info so we can learn a bit.

Lastly and most important, please follow the guidelines that state no picture should be longer than 640 pixels wide. Anything above that will be deleted.

Thanks and have fun!

Eric A. Mayer

 

[Canuck2]

Okey doke, here's a long eared owl fledgling. It passed through my back yard with its folks and siblings, and wasn't yet a great flyer. Thought he was pretty tough, though.

I used my old Pentax SP1000 with 300 mm lens, set on whatever the light meter told me to do.

 

[_droptine_]

That is a cool picture of the owl!

 

[WildBird]

Shot a couple months back. A buzzard doing a dance while I was working the camera. I think it was trying to defend it's territory (or it really liked me). With a telextender on the Oly C-730.

 

[wildebeast]

You guys make it tough on us point and shooters.
got this with an cannon owl pf game cam.

Great Blue Heron

cliff

 

[Saskman]

Here is a Canada Goose from May. One of the first photos I took with my new 10D.

 

[leod]

Well Saskman, You helped me make up my mind which pic to show, thanks

Here is one of your Canadian Geese that visit down here in Georgia and finds food at my dock, this also was taken in May.

c700uz, 1/80 5.0, 145, taken in auto and cropped.

leo

 

[Jim Thompson]

Not to great, but I do not shoot a lot of birdies.

Jim

 

[Brotherwolf]

A hot chick. Canon Powershot S40. auto setting.

 

[Lan-Lord]

 

[_droptine_]

This one is kind of funny because when my 3 year old saw the picture she immediately called it the "angry bird".

Oly CZ 2100
1/160 sec.
f 3.5
ISO 200

 

[spectr17]

Droptine your daughter is right, that bird does look like it's sucking on a lemon.

wildebeast, I'm still trying to get a blue heron. They flush as soon as they see you even if they are 100 yards away. Very spooky bird.

I shot this woodpecker, at least I think it's a woodpecker in Missouri 2 springs ago. I tried to identify the type of woodpecker but I haven't found the right name yet. Anyone? I was on the ground right before sun up under a heavy tree canopy. I ended up just laying on my back as it was to hard to keep trying to look straight up at the birds in the trees.

Olympus 2100
Freehand
1/500
F 3.2
ISO 100
282 mm equiv.

I did brighten the part around the moth to highlight a bit more.

 

[wildebeast]

Those herons are quite spooky...you sure that is a woodpecker Jesse..
looks like it is upside down in the tree..that usually is a type of nuthatch

I could be wrong

cliff

 

[TNDEERHUNTER]

Great pics!!! Here is one I took in the Florida keys in June 03.

 

[wvhunter]

Got this picture last spring at my inlaws. The only cam we had with us was the wifes point and shoot and the scan could have been better.

 

[Pasco]

Out scouting deer this weekend, we found a WHOLE lot of these.

1/50,F7.1,ISO100,3Xdigital zoom, C720

 

[Pasco]

Looks like everybody wanted to be the sentry this morning.

1/60s, F3.4, ISO200, C720

 

[spectr17]

wildebeast, that may not be a woodpecker. He was poking in the tree like one but he didn't have red on his head at all. Any ideas? Nuthutch?

 

[foulshot]

Heres a picture of a Jay I took while I was back in Colorado.
Oly C740
ISO 64
1/400
F3.7

 

[Canuck2]

Just got back from being out of town for a few days. I posted my pic above just before leaving and now return to a great set of photographs, top to bottom. Very nice, everyone. It's really neat to see a wide variety in species and habitat; I could look at this stuff all day.

BTW foulshot, that Stellar's Jay just happens to be our provincial bird here in British Columbia. Neat critter.