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At one of my normal birding haunts there was a puddle where a bunch of herring gulls were taking a bath. I always scan the gull flocks because you never know what oddity you will find. In this group there were two gulls I really am not sure what to call. I am leaning towards them being immature laughing gulls. Gulls are hard to Id because their plummage changes alot over their first few years and also between winter and summer.
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Solitary Sandpiper stopped for a rest on it's way from Canada to Southern Florida or beyond. It's amazing how far small birds migrate.
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What different cameras are people using here, I have the nikon p900 and the p1000 ,you can never have enough cameras what I like about these is you don't have to change lenses you can take these and stand the camera over a business card and take a picture for macro or you have the telephoto for distance.
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I use Pentax Jeanne. Its what I started with in film days and since most pentax film and digital cameras are backwards compatible I just stayed with it. Some of my lens are 30-40 years old and still work pretty darn good..
Dave, nice sandpiper!
Al
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I use Pentax DSLR camera bodies much for the same reason Al gave. I have moved up to the K-1 full frame body and really like the ability to take a very small crop of an image and blow it up life size without image degradation.
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I keep eyeing that K1 Dave... I have so many full frame lenses I could use on it... but I will have to wait a bit longer.:(
al
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I keep eyeing that K1 Dave... I have so many full frame lenses I could use on it... but I will have to wait a bit longer.:(
al
Al,
That thunderstorm photo that tied the monthly photo contest here was taken with the K1 and the 24mm 1:2 internal focus Pentax lens (the grey one that costs as much used as it did when it was new).
You won't regret getting the K-1. But then I love my K20d for some things like portraits, and the K-3 for some wildlife shooting.
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Heres one that often goes over looked in marsh because it superficially resembles a Great Egret or snowy egret...Pat and I shared pics of little blue Herons.. The immature form of the Little blue heron is actually white.:) snagged this one in flight. You can tell hes not a great egret by the color of the legs ( blackish on the Great egret) and that its not a snowy which has black legs with yellow feet. The other giveaway is the Bill shape and color differ from a snowy.
Saw this fellow at a very long distance and snapped a few quick pics to ID it. The best image I got was this..
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But with a little patience in PP..
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Great no, but to ID it.. perfect.
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Attachment 125248Here is a little guy that lived in our Maple tree out front. We had to put him back in the nest twice, seems he wanted to fledge a bit too early.
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Attachment 125248Here is a little guy that lived in our Maple tree out front. We had to put him back in the nest twice, seems he wanted to fledge a bit too early.
Awesome! I would love to have owls nesting in my yard!
Al
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I hope you guy do not mind a couple frog images. I went with a friend to shoot the Swamp Sunflowers which are blooming this year and had a couple frogs who wanted in on the action.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...eec0845b_b.jpgLiving Amongst the Sunflowers
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...450f8b7e_b.jpgSleeping Frog
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Attachment 125248Here is a little guy that lived in our Maple tree out front. We had to put him back in the nest twice, seems he wanted to fledge a bit too early.
That is so cool Mark. Appears to be a great horned owl :) I have barred owls around my place. Sometimes hear them at night.
Pat
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Pat Great Frog shots.. glad to see some Green Frogs are still around.
al