This thread is for the birds! (1 Viewer)

[Scott Merryfield]

Thanks, Mike. Luckily, we missed all the snow in Michigan while we were in the Florida Keys and Everglades enjoying 80+ degree temperatures. I owed my neighbor big-time for keeping my driveway and sidewalk clean from all the snow. I was disappointed by the little amount of wildlife we saw in the Everglades, though. Talking with some folks, it appears the wildlife viewing has been getting worse the past few years. This was our first visit to the park, so I cannot speak from experience on the issue.

I used DxO PhotoLab instead of Adobe Lightroom to process all the photos from this trip. The ClearView feature of PL really helped make the colors pop with one click of a button instead of a lot of manual work in LR, and also helped immensely with getting the most out of my landscape shots. The software is a little more cumbersome than LR for sorting and purging photos, but I really like the editing and RAW processing aspects of the application. Adobe can shove their new forced subscription model for Lightroom as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Mark Booth]

Shot this one way back in 2009 with my 5D Mark II and the older style Canon 100-400.

The person I sold that lens to got a winner! The older style 100-400s were a mixed bag.

Mark

 

[Scott Merryfield]

I love pelicans. Nice shot, Mark.

My original Canon 100-400L was a good one, too. The newer version is much better, but I do miss the push - pull zoom mechanism from the original.

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

Niiice!

Still haven't had a chance to give my new Tamron 150-600 G2 a good workout yet. Came across some pileated woodpeckers in Muir Woods (out near San Francisco), but didn't actually bring that lens w/ me, so nothing to show -- wasn't expecting to need it and didn't want to lug it on my first cross-country roundtrip flight in ages...

Maybe when I head down to Orlando in a couple weeks? IF not, then when I head up to Mohonk for Mother's Day weekend...

_Man_

 

[Scott Merryfield]

A few shots from our spring visit to Huntington Beach State Park in South Carolina. We spent 2+ weeks at our condo this time, and missed all the bad April weather in Michigan.

Mirror, mirror on the wall...

A gator eyeing some cormorants:

A cormorant having a bad hair day

 

[Sam Posten]

I went to see the seals beached on Sandy Hook a few weeks ago. They were too far out to get good pics (and the heat coming off the water was creating huuuuge distortion) but the birding went well!

Merganser emerges from water, brant in background:

18-SandyHook-D500-7795 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

Merganser drip:

18-SandyHook-D500-7803 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

Nesting ospreys with human trash in nest:

18-SandyHook-D500-7987 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

Brants and a seagull with clams:

18-SandyHook-D500-7871 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

Seagulls dropping clams from 30' in the air to crack them open on rocks:

18-SandyHook-D500-7856 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

 

[Mike Frezon]

Gentlemen, I give you...the Royal Palm turkey:

 

[Scott Merryfield]

It's too early for Thanksgiving, Mike.

 

[Scott Merryfield]

A few shots from Huntington Beach State Park during our April visit to South Carolina:

 

[Sam Posten]

Biggest Murmuration I've ever seen!!!

 

[Scott Merryfield]

We just returned from South Carolina. These were all taken on the grounds of our condo.

 

[Sam Posten]

IHaveNoIdeaWhatImDoingDog.jpg =)

 

[Scott Merryfield]

A few new shots from Huntington Beach State Park in South Carolina from a couple of weeks ago:

 

[Phil Iturralde]

Kookaburra - November 09, 2015 Taronga Zoo, Sydney. The distinctive sound of the laughing kookaburra's call, which sounds like echoing human laughter, is widely used in filmmaking and television productions, as well as certain Disney theme park attractions, regardless of African, Asian and South American jungle settings. (Wikipedia)

Yes, this guy was noisy while we walked by.

May 13, 2019 Melbourne Healesville Sanctuary, ...

 

[Scott Merryfield]

A few shots from Huntington Beach State Park in South Carolina. We got lucky and saw some birds we do not see very often. Hopefully these look okay -- I processed the RAW files on my laptop, and not my normal desktop back in Michigan.

Roseate Spoonbill

White Ibis

Little Blue Heron

Not sure what this one is

 

[Mike Frezon]

They look GREAT, Scott.

Maybe that last bird is a Martin Fisher?

I thought it looked like some kind of fisher or kingfisher. I found this pic on Google:

 

[Scott Merryfield]

They look GREAT, Scott.

Maybe that last bird is a Martin Fisher?

I thought it looked like some kind of fisher or kingfisher. I found this pic on Google:

Thanks, Mike! That sure looks like a good match.

 

[Scott Merryfield]

I came across this owl at the 18th tee on the golf course yesterday morning. It's not a great photo, as I took it with my cell phone -- while real photographers may carry a camera everywhere, real golfers do not. It's an owl, though, which is something I almost never see, and have no photos of until now.

 

[Scott Merryfield]

Egret at sunset.

 

[Sam Posten]

Aimed at newer bird photographers but good for all levels.