Birds Birds not in Flight Thread - Post Your Shots Here

[Clix Pix]

Alfred is not actually going to take flight here; he is using his wings to help him balance as he delicately steps down into the culvert which runs beneath a road near where I live.

• ILCE-1
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
• 840.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 2500

 

[AlphaWorld]

I don't have a photo of it, but I was photographing superb fairy wrens (very skittish birds), which is really difficult because they bounce around. A bystander pointed out that one of them had landed on my hat! It was a Panama hat, made of straw, and apparently it was sitting there for a minute or more. As you can imagine, I couldn't exactly get a shot of the bird on my hat. Would have been a great shot. Pity!

 

[Richard A]

I don't have a photo of it, but I was photographing superb fairy wrens (very skittish birds), which is really difficult because they bounce around. A bystander pointed out that one of them had landed on my hat! It was a Panama hat, made of straw, and apparently it was sitting there for a minute or more. As you can imagine, I couldn't exactly get a shot of the bird on my hat. Would have been a great shot. Pity!

WOW!

 

[iamdlewis]

I don't have a photo of it, but I was photographing superb fairy wrens (very skittish birds), which is really difficult because they bounce around. A bystander pointed out that one of them had landed on my hat! It was a Panama hat, made of straw, and apparently it was sitting there for a minute or more. As you can imagine, I couldn't exactly get a shot of the bird on my hat. Would have been a great shot. Pity!

So that person didn't take a picture with their phone?!

 

[AlphaWorld]

So that person didn't take a picture with their phone?!

Sadly, no. They were wrangling a small child, and not using any kind of camera.

 

[Davej]

Just out from home on the River Kennet, UK we'd stopped to watch a visiting Osprey - which always improves the day. It just sat around getting harassed by seagulls.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 400

Then a young Kingfisher flew in and sat right by us and just stayed put. It bounced to a different branch and kept turning around.

We had so much time I was playing with Manual Focus! We left after about 40minutes and he/she was still there. Magical.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 5000

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 5000

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 5000

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 5000

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 5000

 

[RogerSmith]

only duckling of a nearby hen, wood duck

• ILCE-1
• FE 400mm F2.8 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/2500 sec
• ISO 1250

 

[spudhead]

linnet

• ILCE-1
• FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 2000

 

[spudhead]

juvenile pied wagtails

• ILCE-1
• FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 400

• ILCE-1
• FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 1000

 

[Tinopener]

Went up to Norwich for a few days where a friend has 30 acres of Fenland took these shots of a kingfisher not great but I was pleased with the outcome

• ILCE-9M2
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 3200

• ILCE-9M2
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 10000

• ILCE-9M2
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/16
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 20000

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Such a beautiful bird. Hope you get the opportunity for more shots soon!

 

[AlphaWorld]

I was on my way into the zoo, and a number of little fluff balls of superb fairy wrens bounced around me (not on my hat this time. They are tiny birds. This is a place where the 50-150's sharpness and instant focus comes into play.

Here's the whole frame - see that tiny bird centre of frame?

And here we are chopping just a 1500 pixel square around the bird:

That's at f/2 and you can see how clear the pixels are.

Shot at f/2, 1/2000, ISO 500, at 150mm on the 50-150 GM on the A9 III.

 

[DavidN]

Juvenile Green Woodpecker visiting our garden yesterday

• ILCE-1
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 2500

 

[DavidN]

Juvenile Green Woodpecker visiting our garden yesterday


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And a juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker this afternoon in the garden

• ILCE-1
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 541.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 640

 

[Jeffrey]

I found this beautiful Bullock's Oriole a few days ago up on Farrin Road in Goleta. CA.

 

[spudhead]

pied wagtail juvenil

• ILCE-1
• FE 300mm F2.8 GM OSS + 2X Teleconverter
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 1600

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[Phil Vetra]

This one looks like how i feel today. Thermometer reading 32C

• ILCE-1
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS
• 194.0 mm
• ƒ/5
• 1/20000 sec
• ISO 1000

 

[Soundmike]

Juvenile Green Woodpecker visiting our garden yesterday


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Great shots,you seem to get a different selection of birds, do you live on the edge of a forest.

 

[evacguy]

Canadian Goose squadron on patrol - with a Greylag goose bringing up the rear.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
• 119.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 25600

 

[Richard A]

This one looks like how i feel today. Thermometer reading 32C.

That's just an average summer day here. You'd think if the bird was that hot it would take a dip in that inviting blue water.

 

[Jeffrey]

The first Stilt I've seen at my local bird refuge, Santa Barbara, CA. A1 II, 200-600, 1.4x

 

[TomF162]

Sitting in our garden today where there was lots of bird activity. This Anna's was enjoying the gladiolus that is blooming.

• ILCE-6700
• E 70-350mm F4.5-6.3 G OSS
• 302.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 5000

 

[evacguy]

The storm before the calm - St.James Park London.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 800

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 1000

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

One of my first few shots on the 400 -800. It's a Melanistic Hen Pheasant, so an unusual find. She found me, by walking toward me at a reserve!

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 400-800mm F6.3-8 G OSS
• 689.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 6400

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Preening Marsh Harrier. Taken in crop mode on the RiV and cropped in post too. A shame the background is a bit messy, but I couldn't get a better angle. It still shows the sharpness of the 400 800 at range nicely.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 400-800mm F6.3-8 G OSS
• 800.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 500

 

[AlphaWorld]

Reflection of a Pacific Black Duck

Shot with the 400-800 G at f/9 on the A1 II at 1/2000, ISO 5000

 

[Paul stuart]

 

[Paul stuart]

• ILCE-1
• FE 400-800mm F6.3-8 G OSS
• 800.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/4000 sec
• ISO 4000

 

[evacguy]

What the duck!

A pochard on the lake at St.James Park Buckingham Palace.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 400

..... and a white headed duck - so is this where the ugly duckling comes from?

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 2000

... a tighter crop just to make sure, yep, not a very handsome duck.

I do love the patterns in the water.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 2000

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Quite literally my first shot with the A1, as today was the first decent day of weather since it arrived on Wednesday. I can't complain really Reed Warbler at close range.

• ILCE-1
• FE 400-800mm F6.3-8 G OSS
• 800.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 3200