Birds

[kas]

I know there is a birdwatching subforum, however only a few ever post photos in there, so I thought a bird photo thread would be good in here too, so hopefully all the other photographers on here can post any bird photos they have. Also I can try to learn some tips as birds are the reason I got my camera.

Here are 2 from the Thurso boating pond yesterday. A Mute swan and a Mallard duck.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/mute-1.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/Mallard.jpg

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/2005_0113OUTABOUT150081.jpg

Taken at Sannick Bay couple of weeks back.

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/2005_0107OUTABOUT70004-2.jpg

One of the many at Scrabster last month.

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/2005_0107OUTABOUT70024-1-1.jpg

Thurso river mouth.

[Mystical Potato Head]

There's a plague of them Lizz

http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo189/sat5_photos/IMG_4123-1.jpg

http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo189/sat5_photos/IMG_4057-2.jpg

http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo189/sat5_photos/PICT0019.jpg

[Kenn]

That looks a bit of a daft place for a moorhen to build a nest, she'll be drifting down the river next high tide!

[Mystical Potato Head]

That one was taken on the River Foss about a mile or so before it enters the Ouse.

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/SEAGULLCLOSEUP-1.jpg

[eddiston]

http://i541.photobucket.com/albums/gg368/eddiston/feb%202009/133_sm.jpg

Taken in Inverness last Sunday. A curious bird on the river's edge.

[Raven]

Nice examples everyone, I especially like Kas`s swan.

[Hibeechick]

Everybody...meet my wee boy.

Peedie , because he's peedie :)

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t199/Amanda1875/camera2010.jpg

[tjc]

Hello peedie... :)

[Mystical Potato Head]

http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo189/sat5_photos/IMG_3388.jpg

[Liz]

Lovely photos everyone.:D

[kas]

Great photos everyone. What a cutie peedie is. cracking shot of the moorhen nest too. Heres a few from the photobucket albumn so I think they might have been posted in previous threads.

Dunlin (taken with a digital camera attached to a birding telescope, ie Digiscoping)
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/dunlin2.jpg
Great Skuas
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/130707131.jpg

[tjc]

Good shots everyone... :)

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/2007_09_25__Arctic_Tern_at_VP-1.jpg

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Amoorhenriplles-1-1.jpg


Could n't resist this one of a moorhen, it was taken last autumn when the wind was causing the ripples under the trees lining the river.

[donsinc]

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/robin22.jpg

[Kenn]

What sort of bird is that donsinc?
Looks like some one crossed a blackbird with a robin!

[Mystical Potato Head]

Great photos Lizz/Kas.
Donsinc,great shot too,what is the mystery bird?Though it might be a Redstart
or a Stonechat,only birds i can think of with the distinct red/orangy plumage but they dont have yellow beaks.

[donsinc]

Great photos Lizz/Kas.
Donsinc,great shot too,what is the mystery bird?Though it might be a Redstart
or a Stonechat,only birds i can think of with the distinct red/orangy plumage but they dont have yellow beaks.

No mystery here in North America. It is the common American Robin:

http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/212/_/American_Robin.aspx

[inorg]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/DSCF55961-1.jpg

Slightly blurred as shot through the window!

[Mystical Potato Head]

No mystery here in North America. It is the common American Robin:

http://identify.whatbird.com/obj/212/_/American_Robin.aspx

And here was me thinking about which UK bird it could be.:lol:

[kas]

A Glaucous gull today at Scrabster Harbour.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/gg2.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/gg.jpg

[kas]

Goldeneye today on Thurso boating pond. The male is the black and white one, female the brownie one.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/GE1.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/GE2.jpg

Lizz that is a great photo of the tern. Is it a juv Arctic tern and where did you take it, St Johns?

[kas]

Todays letter is G. First Glaucous Gull, then Goldeneye and now a Group of Goosanders. These 6 were at Thurso River mouth and there were another 3 off the beach. Not that great a photo but Great birds. The 2 black and white ones are the males, with 2 females on either side.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/GA.jpg

[Mystical Potato Head]

Yep,saw the Goosanders this afternoon and of course i had my 300mm lens with me,NOT.
Great set of photos

[cazmanian_minx]

Two from under my bird feeders this afternoon.

Robin:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3381/3269963846_bafdb57d7c_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/22544094@N00/3269963846/)

And a sparrow:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3298/3269142177_914320e1d5_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/22544094@N00/3269142177)

[wifie]

Stunning feathers CM!

[kas]

Great photos. The bottom one is a Dunnock.

[Mystical Potato Head]

Brilliant close ups CM,the detail of the Dunnocks feathers is superb.

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/2005_0108OUTABOUT100032-1.jpg


Is this a juvenile cormorant? I ask because of the brown colouring.

[Deemac]

Speaking of cormorants!! This was caught at Wick Harbour last weekend.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh116/deemac1965/40DA_7108edit1Sm.jpg

[kas]

The last 2 photos look like shags to me (no comments please). Great photo Deemac

[cazmanian_minx]

The last 2 photos look like shags to me (no comments please). Great photo Deemac

The north Sutherland ranger mentioned that if you see a cormorant up here it's almost certainly a shag.

Great pics.

[Deemac]

OK, I admit I know vitually nothing about birds. I can just about identify a swan and an ostrich!!;)

[Kenn]

Thank you kas, was the colour that made me ask the question.
What's the easiest way to tell cormorants and shags appart ? I know the adults have slightly different plumage colour and I think the shag is slightly smaller but may be wrong on that.
The only way I recognise a cormorant is by the typical outspread wing pose and also think they tend to be solitary whilst shags congregate in large groups.

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/2008_01220070-1.jpg

[inorg]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/2008_01220058-1.jpg

[dragonfly]

more swans, not Thurso ones though, these live in Edinburgh below Arthurs Seat

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3319/3260656151_fd3ab10e9b.jpg

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/Awoodpigeon1-2.jpg

Wood pigeon dancing on the garage roof.

[cazmanian_minx]

Think this is a juvenile herring gull?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3640/3328810918_fbbe269e14.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/22544094@N00/3328810918/in/set-72157605694776058)

[dan67]

Blue Eagle at Dunrobin Castle Falconery

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg294/dan67/blueeagle.jpg

[Kenn]

What stunning feathers great sharpness.

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0318StanmerandFalmer0017-1.jpg

Think there's been some hanky panky between the domestics and the canadians!

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0318StanmerandFalmer0047-1.jpg

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0318StanmerandFalmer0050-1.jpg

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0318StanmerandFalmer0023.jpg

He wasn't telling!

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0318StanmerandFalmer0052-1.jpg


Mallard pair

[Mystical Potato Head]

Great selection of wildfowl Lizz and well captured.

[daviddd]

come on then; who's going in first?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/daviddd/8-03-09Day137image9Maryborough.jpg

[North Light]

Lizz,
Great series of photographs.

daviddd,
Love the lineup!

[wifie]

Great birdie pics lizz!

daviddd it looks more like the anticipation at the start of a race and they are all psyching themselves and limbering up! Cool capture! :)

[kas]

Great photos guys.
I went to Thurso Boating pond last week to try out the manual settings for the very first time, 10 mins in my zoom lens went haywire. So its away to see what is wrong with it!! Disaster as I am lost without it and just when I came away from automatic settings.
Here is one I got of a duck before the lens died. I was pleased with the detail but disappointed with the darkness of the photo.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/Mallard-1.jpg

[kas]

Some Redshank shots from the week before
I never knew they had tufts, is this a breeding thing, or just a bad hair day in the wind??

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/Rshank2.jpg

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/Rshank3.jpg

[Mystical Potato Head]

Beautiful shots of the redshanks,lovely colour.

[nirofo]

"Luv a Duck"

Mallard Duck and Drake.
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o71/nirofo/Birds/Mallards-DuckandDrake2.jpg

nirofo.

[wifie]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaw! Spring is in the air! Gorgeous green! :)

[Liz]

Great photos everyone!:D

[Kenn]

Reckon no 1 redshank thinks he's a punk! Great shot kas.

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0329Birds0005-1.jpg

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0329Birds0004-1.jpg

[wicker05]

Nice one's LIZZ. :)

[North Light]

Lizz,

Well caught, like the first, although thats not a very trusting look you're being given!

[sassylass]

owwww

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/csobrero999/Inverness3-27-09005.jpg

[Mystical Potato Head]

Maybe got a bit of a headache though Sassylass.

Here's that boating pond swan again.
http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo189/sat5_photos/IMG_0818copy.jpg

and a Goldeneye minus his golden eye,sound asleep.
http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo189/sat5_photos/IMG_0802.jpg

[wifie]

Swan is fab MPH - love the water in that shot!
Can you imagine sleeping like that? :)

[kas]

Love the pattern on the chicken Lizz and MPHs boating pond shots.
Now I have the lens back I can start getting the photos of my beloved birds again.

Here is a couple from last Sunday, I was actually looking for dolphins but they never appear when the camera is about.

Gannet
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/GR.jpg

Fulmar, shame about the shadow on its face.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f170/kasm/FR.jpg

[Mystical Potato Head]

Great shots Kas,seen a few Gannets diving in the bay lately.,not too far out either.

[spurtle]

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee257/quoybrae/2006_06090075.jpg

[nirofo]

Here's one shot earlier this week.

Oystercatchers mating.
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o71/nirofo/Birds/Oystercatchersmating2.jpg

nirofo.

[North Light]

Lovely photographs all,

spurtle,
Love the contrast on the fence.

Kas,
I particularly like the image of the Gannet,

Nirofo,
Well caught.

[Liz]

Great photos everyone. Well done!:D

[Deemac]

Here's one I caught while on the Gills ferry from Orkney back to the mainland on Sunday 31/05/09. I thought the reflection was interesting.

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh116/deemac1965/40DB_1290edit1Sm.jpg

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_06122009Duncansby0008-1.jpg

This made me giggle as the fulmar pair really looked as though they were having a laugh.

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2009june022-1.jpg

Just love the brilliant red legs

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2009june030-1.jpg

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_06122009Duncansby0016-1.jpg

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/11may20091074-1.jpg

One of the sculptures in Dunnet Forrest.

[golach]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_06122009Duncansby0008-1.jpg

This made me giggle as the fulmar pair really looked as though they were having a laugh.


Naw Lizz, that is the Mrs givin him grief, but he is an owld hand, his is sitting stuumm[lol]

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_06192009GardenJune0034-1.jpg

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_06192009GardenJune0035-1.jpg

My female blackbird today taking the plunge.

[donsinc]

http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/hummers.jpg

[kas]

Wow they look superb, what species are they?
I always think of them like flying saucers the way they fly.

[donsinc]

Those are Black Throated Humming Birds photographed near Kanab, Utah, USA.

[kara]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whispa63/3664997154/sizes/l/

[North Light]

Kara,

You have your viewing permissions incorrectly set on flickr, not allowed to view!

You need to format the link so the photograph appears on the org.

1. Go to the photographs page on flickr.
2. Click on "All Sizes" icon above the photo.
3. Select Size you wish to post using the options after "Available Sizes".
4. Scroll down to below the photograph to Box 2, "Grab the photo's URL:"
5. Copy the URL in the box
6. Inside the message box on the Org, click on the Postcard Icon above the message box, paste the URL from box 2 on flickr in pop up box that appeares.
7. I then choose to put the photographs page URL underneath.

Hope this helps

NL

[North Light]

kara,

That one doesn't work either, if I go to your flickr page I can see them ok, and can also see that you have not restricted viewing on flickr.
You must have some settings in your flickr account that stop links from working.
NL

[kara]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whispa63/3664240907/sizes/l/

i have clicked on a few things so hope this works ????

[North Light]

kara,

Yup that works, but with just a few more clicks and a bit of pasting you could get the photo to appear in this thread.
Try the instructions above.

[Kenn]

Got the 1st three links to work but can't get the last to open!
Great shots.

[North Light]

Hmm, either something wrong with my instructions, or your not quite there yet kara.

[kara]

North Light
it keeps telling me its a ivalid file ...
[evil] i'l just keep trying
thanks for your help
:D

[kara]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3335/3664240907_63658bbbf3.jpg

[kara]

yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee its worked
thanks North Light :Razz

[kara]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2450/3664997154_c9a16e182e.jpg

[kara]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3608/3665330876_8ae85b6d3c_b.jpg

[lol]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whispa63/3665330876/sizes/l/

[North Light]

kara,

Well done, there will be no stopping you know!

They are excellent shots of the puffins

[Liz]

Wow! What great photos Kara.

Unfortunately, I have never seen these beautiful birds in real life but your photos make up for that. So many thanks for sharing and well done for getting the photos posted rather than a link.:D

[Seabird]

Great pictures, first time i've seen such a young chick outside it's burrow. Well done

[kara]

thank's seabird
the young chick only came outside it's burrow for a shot time befour returning to it ...it was the only one i seen yesterday ::Razz :p

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/Adunnocj-1.jpg


http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/AsldewindDunnock-1.jpg



http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_06242009GardenJune0007-1.jpg


This family have been keeping us amused all day with their antics, seem to have two juveniles but they are still a little shy, mum and dad though are quite bold, despite the some what dangerous landing!

[astroman]

Fab puffin pics kara.

[Deemac]

Finally kara - I can now remove you from my ignore list!! - O yes, nice shots

[kara]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2572/3675073232_1f8a51bf89_b.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whispa63/3675073232/sizes/l/
:Razz

[Mystical Potato Head]

I think the "trendy" framing spoils the image.It draws my eyes away from the subject because one half is light and the other is dark.All dark would be better.

[wifie]

I agree wi MPH - nice pic of the birds tho.

[tjc]

Yip I agree too...

The frame does take the eye but cracking shot of the Razorbill and youngster.

[wifie]

Aye - except I hate clickin links to photos and who wrote Wendy in the water? :Razz

[kara]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2513/3676013653_6628ba72b4_o.jpg

is this one better ???:lol:

[wifie]

A bitty beeg for my monitor and Wendy is still in 'e water! [lol]

[North Light]

kara,

Excellent photograph.

[Deemac]

Kara, I've found it best to just keep images border free. You end up getting far too many comments on whether people like or dislike the frame and the image gets ignored. (and your first 3D border treatment was terrible!)

Also, unless the text actually has a purpose (like a photo title, company name or weblink) it also tends to be fairly pointless and get negative comments.

Just me pennies worth.

[ATHRoss]

Captured these at Wck Harbour yesterday;

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/5903/bird1kuo.jpg (http://img25.imageshack.us/i/bird1kuo.jpg/)

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/767/bird2h.jpg (http://img6.imageshack.us/i/bird2h.jpg/)

[Deemac]

Marvelous second shot ATHRoss. (First one just needs a white balance tweak IMHO)

[ATHRoss]

Also struggled to capture these fast dive bombing blighters....

Good fun but you have to watch they don't hit you!

Not the best but a start.

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5284/bird21.jpg

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/5185/bird22.jpg

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/8117/bird23.jpg
(3rd is a bit oversharpened I'm afraid)

Must have another go at these before they disappear.

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0731JulyCaithness20090014-1.jpg

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0725Herons20090033-1.jpg

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0725Herons20090024-1.jpg

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0725Herons20090008-1.jpg