[Theme] Show Birds

[chris dees]

Thanks Nasos, John.

Colin, I updated the post with the used gear.
They are very shy and you have to sit very still not to disturb them. They breed in the riverbanks.
These two were preparing their nest.
The males are a bit more colorful than the females. Their blue is "blue-er"

[Nasos Kosmas]

The males are a bit more colorful than the females. Their blue is "blue-er"

That blue I like the most

Female Phoenicurus ochruros under the early morning light
300pf + 2x III  Z50 std profile jpeg with a little crop no other edit

[Nasos Kosmas]

European Goldfinch and common sparrow
200-500 plus tc20eIII on  DX no crop

[golunvolo]

It looks very good. How are the images sooc? How's the af at f11?

[Bruno Schroder]

Very nice ones, Nasos

[Nasos Kosmas]

Thank you Paco and Bruno
I use to down scale images in LR on an IPad thus I used a vivid profile for color and some 0,5 stop plus on a cloudy day
AF is OK even with F11 on Z50, I use pin point AF-S for perched birds but not for BIF It’s very difficult with an 2x TC

Data 1/400 f16 1250iso handheld

[golunvolo]

Thank you for sharing it

[Nasos Kosmas]

Saxicola rubicola female with 300pf +2x

[beryllium10]

Nasos, your small birds are splendid.  You must be both patient and stealthy!  I tend to confine myself to the larger ones, like the herons now gathering in our local park.  There are about 40-50 so far, but the colony will likely grow to its usual size of about 50-55 pairs in the next few weeks.  They're starting to settle into last year's nests, but there will be plenty of squabbling over mates and real estate for a while yet.  Nice light this afternoon, with a bit of veiled sunlight making its way through scattered clouds.  This with the 500 mm PF at f/5.6.

[Matthew Currie]

Some  Bahamian flamingoes, cropped to a fare-thee-well...

[Brute]

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[Nasos Kosmas]

Nasos, your small birds are splendid.  You must be both patient and stealthy!  I tend to confine myself to the larger ones, like the herons now gathering in our local park.  There are about 40-50 so far, but the colony will likely grow to its usual size of about 50-55 pairs in the next few weeks.  They're starting to settle into last year's nests, but there will be plenty of squabbling over mates and real estate for a while yet.  Nice light this afternoon, with a bit of veiled sunlight making its way through scattered clouds.  This with the 500 mm PF at f/5.6.

Thank you John I mostly shoot small birds that.. available round me

Yesterday we spend some time into a local park and it was a good choice as we show a lot of different birds
Among them we had the chance to see early coming swallows, I now realize how difficult is to shoot them if you don’t own a Z9
Barn swallow  Z50 with 300pf in flight and 200-500 standing

[Nasos Kosmas]

Lucky to see an Eurasian scops owl standing on a tree sleeping

[Tom Hook]

I haven’t seen many Black Ducks recently but saw this pair in a nearby pond. I never thought much of them, thinking them dull, but under the close scrutiny allowed by a photograph, there is a lot to like about them. The lustrous black bodies, the subtle coloring of the neck and head and the variation in the bill colors of the female green and male yellow. My apologies to the breed for my previous indifference.

I love ducks almost as much as I love warblers.

[Nasos Kosmas]

Very nice black ducks Tom
Here is a Sylvia melanocephala calling for a mate,  in the series of “imprisoned” birds
Z50 300pf  TC 20e III