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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
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/2005_0113OUTABOUT150081.jpg
Taken at Sannick Bay couple of weeks back.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/2005_0107OUTABOUT70004-2.jpg
One of the many at Scrabster last month.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/2005_0107OUTABOUT70024-1-1.jpg
Thurso river mouth.
Mystical Potato Head
03-Feb-09, 00:00
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
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
03-Feb-09, 00:24
That one was taken on the River Foss about a mile or so before it enters the Ouse.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/SEAGULLCLOSEUP-1.jpg
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.
Nice examples everyone, I especially like Kas`s swan.
Hibeechick
04-Feb-09, 12:46
Everybody...meet my wee boy.
Peedie , because he's peedie :)
http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t199/Amanda1875/camera2010.jpg
Mystical Potato Head
04-Feb-09, 18:35
http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo189/sat5_photos/IMG_3388.jpg
Lovely photos everyone.:D
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
Good shots everyone... :)
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/2007_09_25__Arctic_Tern_at_VP-1.jpg
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.
http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/robin22.jpg
What sort of bird is that donsinc?
Looks like some one crossed a blackbird with a robin!
Mystical Potato Head
08-Feb-09, 11:15
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.
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
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/DSCF55961-1.jpg
Slightly blurred as shot through the window!
Mystical Potato Head
08-Feb-09, 18:37
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:
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
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?
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
08-Feb-09, 20:14
Yep,saw the Goosanders this afternoon and of course i had my 300mm lens with me,NOT.
Great set of photos
cazmanian_minx
10-Feb-09, 18:32
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)
Great photos. The bottom one is a Dunnock.
Mystical Potato Head
10-Feb-09, 23:11
Brilliant close ups CM,the detail of the Dunnocks feathers is superb.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/2005_0108OUTABOUT100032-1.jpg
Is this a juvenile cormorant? I ask because of the brown colouring.
Speaking of cormorants!! This was caught at Wick Harbour last weekend.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh116/deemac1965/40DA_7108edit1Sm.jpg
The last 2 photos look like shags to me (no comments please). Great photo Deemac
cazmanian_minx
11-Feb-09, 07:58
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.
OK, I admit I know vitually nothing about birds. I can just about identify a swan and an ostrich!!;)
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.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/2008_01220070-1.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/2008_01220058-1.jpg
dragonfly
11-Feb-09, 22:42
more swans, not Thurso ones though, these live in Edinburgh below Arthurs Seat
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3319/3260656151_fd3ab10e9b.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/Awoodpigeon1-2.jpg
Wood pigeon dancing on the garage roof.
cazmanian_minx
15-Mar-09, 10:49
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)
Blue Eagle at Dunrobin Castle Falconery
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg294/dan67/blueeagle.jpg
What stunning feathers great sharpness.
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!
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0318StanmerandFalmer0047-1.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0318StanmerandFalmer0050-1.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0318StanmerandFalmer0023.jpg
He wasn't telling!
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0318StanmerandFalmer0052-1.jpg
Mallard pair
Mystical Potato Head
20-Mar-09, 18:29
Great selection of wildfowl Lizz and well captured.
come on then; who's going in first?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/daviddd/8-03-09Day137image9Maryborough.jpg
North Light
24-Mar-09, 10:43
Lizz,
Great series of photographs.
daviddd,
Love the lineup!
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! :)
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
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
28-Mar-09, 20:59
Beautiful shots of the redshanks,lovely colour.
"Luv a Duck"
Mallard Duck and Drake.
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o71/nirofo/Birds/Mallards-DuckandDrake2.jpg
nirofo.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaw! Spring is in the air! Gorgeous green! :)
Reckon no 1 redshank thinks he's a punk! Great shot kas.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0329Birds0005-1.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0329Birds0004-1.jpg
North Light
01-Apr-09, 11:34
Lizz,
Well caught, like the first, although thats not a very trusting look you're being given!
sassylass
02-Apr-09, 04:11
owwww
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s208/csobrero999/Inverness3-27-09005.jpg
Mystical Potato Head
05-Apr-09, 00:06
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
Swan is fab MPH - love the water in that shot!
Can you imagine sleeping like that? :)
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
16-May-09, 08:34
Great shots Kas,seen a few Gannets diving in the bay lately.,not too far out either.
http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee257/quoybrae/2006_06090075.jpg
Here's one shot earlier this week.
Oystercatchers mating.
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o71/nirofo/Birds/Oystercatchersmating2.jpg
nirofo.
North Light
17-May-09, 09:27
Lovely photographs all,
spurtle,
Love the contrast on the fence.
Kas,
I particularly like the image of the Gannet,
Nirofo,
Well caught.
Great photos everyone. Well done!:D
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
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.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2009june022-1.jpg
Just love the brilliant red legs
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2009june030-1.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_06122009Duncansby0016-1.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/11may20091074-1.jpg
One of the sculptures in Dunnet Forrest.
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]
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_06192009GardenJune0034-1.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_06192009GardenJune0035-1.jpg
My female blackbird today taking the plunge.
http://homepage.mac.com/plmnice/hummers.jpg
Wow they look superb, what species are they?
I always think of them like flying saucers the way they fly.
Those are Black Throated Humming Birds photographed near Kanab, Utah, USA.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whispa63/3664997154/sizes/l/
North Light
27-Jun-09, 10:58
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
27-Jun-09, 11:22
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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whispa63/3664240907/sizes/l/
i have clicked on a few things so hope this works ????
North Light
27-Jun-09, 11:49
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.
Got the 1st three links to work but can't get the last to open!
Great shots.
North Light
27-Jun-09, 13:10
Hmm, either something wrong with my instructions, or your not quite there yet kara.
North Light
it keeps telling me its a ivalid file ...
[evil] i'l just keep trying
thanks for your help
:D
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3335/3664240907_63658bbbf3.jpg
yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee its worked
thanks North Light :Razz
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2450/3664997154_c9a16e182e.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3608/3665330876_8ae85b6d3c_b.jpg
[lol]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whispa63/3665330876/sizes/l/
North Light
27-Jun-09, 14:44
kara,
Well done, there will be no stopping you know!
They are excellent shots of the puffins
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
Great pictures, first time i've seen such a young chick outside it's burrow. Well done
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
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!
Finally kara - I can now remove you from my ignore list!! - O yes, nice shots
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2572/3675073232_1f8a51bf89_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whispa63/3675073232/sizes/l/
:Razz
Mystical Potato Head
30-Jun-09, 20:56
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.
I agree wi MPH - nice pic of the birds tho.
Yip I agree too...
The frame does take the eye but cracking shot of the Razorbill and youngster.
Aye - except I hate clickin links to photos and who wrote Wendy in the water? :Razz
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2513/3676013653_6628ba72b4_o.jpg
is this one better ???:lol:
A bitty beeg for my monitor and Wendy is still in 'e water! [lol]
North Light
04-Jul-09, 08:16
kara,
Excellent photograph.
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.
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/)
Marvelous second shot ATHRoss. (First one just needs a white balance tweak IMHO)
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.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0731JulyCaithness20090014-1.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0725Herons20090033-1.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0725Herons20090024-1.jpg
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Birds/2005_0725Herons20090008-1.jpg
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