[Theme] Show Birds

[Nasos Kosmas]

The Green Herons nesting by a small lake in my neighborhood park now have four chicks. They're hard to see through the foliage, but once in a while we catch a glimpse of one or more.

Nice capture Tim , beautiful

[Ashlandish]

Thank you, appreciate. They are lovely little creatures...

[Hans_S]

The almond trees are in full blossom with the promise of a bumper crop...but the reality, every year, is that the !@#$ parrots get them first!!

[Hugh_3170]

Nice images Hans.

Yes, the one in your second photograph looks exactly like the !@#$'s that got into our apples last year. 

The annoying thing for us was that the apples became riddled with lots of triangular shaped bite marks that spoilt the apples, yet the birds ate very few of the apples as such.

Wish I still had my cat....

The almond trees are in full blossom with the promise of a bumper crop...but the reality, every year, is that the !@#$ parrots get them first!!

[Hans_S]

Thank you Hugh. I wedge the spray head of the garden hose in a fork of the apple tree pointing upwards. A blast of water up their technicolour khybers instantly has exiting the tree in all directions.

[Hugh_3170]

Thank you - I must try this method. It might also work for fruit bats....

Thank you Hugh. I wedge the spray head of the garden hose in a fork of the apple tree pointing upwards. A blast of water up their technicolour khybers instantly has exiting the tree in all directions.

[Ashlandish]

Behold, my world!

[golunvolo]

Z9 on dx mode. 70-200mm 2.8fl. If I'm going to shoot more birds, I'm going to need more reach...

[Nasos Kosmas]

That’s all starts Paco
Use 2x TC III holds well with this excellent lens

[ColinM]

Z9 on dx mode. 70-200mm 2.8fl. If I'm going to shoot more birds, I'm going to need more reach...

Since you're using a Z9 you can fast forward straight to a 500PF
(I'm guessing you had a chance to play with Birna's 400mm Z lens back in 2023 too?)

[golunvolo]

Since you're using a Z9 you can fast forward straight to a 500PF
(I'm guessing you had a chance to play with Birna's 400mm Z lens back in 2023 too?)

  I did try Birna's 400 and I like it a lot. That lens... but I have never try the 500pf

[Brute]

Sandhill Cranes

[Øivind Tøien]

Ruffed grouse from today with Z8, atypically captured with the 85mm f/1.8 S at very low light, the first one through window panes. It even posed long enough in the tree to prepare a pre-capture sequence at takeoff.

[senecaman]

Welcome home

[Asle F]

Seen in the snowy weather

tiur by Asle Feten, on Flickr