[Theme] Show Birds

[Brute]

Nice Kingbird Brute

Here are a Bee eater calm sitting on a tree, Eleonora's  Falcon, and a Cuckoo  all from the same outing Z8/180-600

Thanks Nasos.
Looks like you are getting some great shots your mirrorless equipment. I still have not gone that route yet.


Lazuli Bunting

[Nasos Kosmas]

This morning, it's a manual focus capture.

Very nice shoot Arturo and with manual focus is even harder

Thank you Ken, I decided to use the advantage of the mirrorless technology now as I grow up
This Lazuli Bunting is a very beautiful bird!

[ARTUROARTISTA]

Thanks Nasos, the swallows fly at great speed, I took that photo yesterday morning, with an old and heavy lens, it is the 600/5.6 Nikkor ED AI, I think about 1600 of my model were manufactured, it has the number: 177191, I took the photos with the lens by hand and without a tripod, for me it is an exercise, I put some more details of that day,

[Øivind Tøien]

The Continental Great Horned Owl was hooting in the dark nights throughout the winter this year. It is very calming natural sound, and I long hoped to be able to spot one. This spring came a period were the hooting also happened at daytime and all around in multiple directions from my cabin, which brought up my hopes up for a sighting, however it remained elusive. Then one morning I heard a lot of noise from ravens in a tree at the back of my cabin, and there were 3 of them apparently being very exited, dropping sticks at something. As the owl was still at the front of my mind, I realized that what looked like a squirrel nest was a Great Horned Owl hiding in the branches of the spruce tree. I thanked the ravens and quickly went to grab my Z8 and the 300PF that was most easily accessible and got a quick shot of one of the ravens with the owl hardly visible. Then I run back inside for my 500PF, and luckily the owl remained put so I  started a photo session from the other side of the tree.

[Øivind Tøien]

After a while it started hooting, so I got a good view of what it takes to make that deep sound. Note the white area of feathers expanding considerably.

I also got a video clip of the hooting that I managed to stabilize in Da Vinci  Resolve: https://youtu.be/cfSx3A0ku0U

[Øivind Tøien]

Yet another capture, and one of my friends, the ravens, captured a few days later. The right raven is working on a stick - not sure what was causing the excitement on this occasion.

[Bruno Schroder]

Congratulations. Beautiful bird and pictures!
Fascinating behavior too. Last century, the Eagle howl was used as a bait to hunt ravens. They would tie it to a post and wait for the ravens to harass it, which they would inevitably do.

[Øivind Tøien]

Congratulations. Beautiful bird and pictures!
Fascinating behavior too. Last century, the Eagle howl was used as a bait to hunt ravens. They would tie it to a post and wait for the ravens to harass it, which they would inevitably do.

Thanks Bruno and thanks for that detail. Historically ravens also can have different roles too, the other one is to alert wolves and possibly traditional hunters to prey for their mutual benefit.