Post Your Bird Images Here!!!!!!!

[spangles]

I love zoos, you can get close enough to the birds, and they have no where else to go! Have no idea what kind of birds they are though.

-Sarah

[almo]

Found this guy outside of a target this morning.

[paulnj]

Any suggestions on how to handle a shot like this without completely blowing out the background?

Besides trying to get a different angle without sky in the backgound... got me

I usually start at +1.3 ev on birds with the sky as BG, then find the right comp for the sceen from there .

I guess you could always do one of the photoshop tricks like expose for the bird and expose for the sky.... them merge ;)

NOT MY DEAL THOUGH

[almo]

ah a juvenile green heron

well.... how was my ID of your zoo cuckoo ?

Well I am going to have to check on that one cuz it seems right to me, but that bird was part of a small flock in an african rift exhibit. But you really do seem to have nailed it.

[paulnj]

I love zoos, you can get close enough to the birds, and they have no where else to go! Have no idea what kind of birds they are though.

-Sarah

roseate spoonbill and black-crowned nightheron

[paulnj]

ah a juvenile green heron

well.... how was my ID of your zoo cuckoo ?

[almo]

Well I am going to have to check on that one cuz it seems right to me, but that bird was part of a small flock in an african rift exhibit. But you really do seem to have nailed it.

I take that back. You are obviously right. I am going to have to call the zoo and ask why they would put a south american bird in an african aviary.

[paulnj]

I could be wrong.... but it looks good to me

[Outdoorsman]

Just yer standard GBH. Taken this last week. He sure was purty!

[Outdoorsman]

roseate spoonbill and black-crowned nightheron

You know, I spotted my first black-crowned night heron not long ago, and this doesn't look like it at all. My Audubon book shows a different bird, one without a white stripe across the eyes. Is this one a female/juvenile? Also, I can't seem to find this bird in the book...

[paulnj]

OOPS....

This shift change has made my brain think YELLOW and my hands type BLACK

It is infact a YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHTHERON in adult plumage. I see atleast a dozen every year, with a few rare black-crowned sitings in a few spots where they nest.

[Mike T]

Another one for you Paul, I shot this one yesterday 7/30 . I think I have the bird figured out but both bird books I have say this is a winter bird for NJ.

Mike

[Knight]

Did not have a Polariser did not have a Tcon and it was in full sun

Got him in full flight also but im to mad to post it , its neck and head are not in focus

[paulnj]

Another one for you Paul, I shot this one yesterday 7/30 . I think I have the bird figured out but both bird books I have say this is a winter bird for NJ.

Mike

Mike these are infact "winter range " birds, but commom mergansers do infact nest in northern NJ somewhat fequently( can be expected, but hard to find )

These are this years young too ;)

[paulnj]

Do you really think I haven't done worse... THIS SUMMER ;) Not EVERY frame can be a winner, but you got the GBH image to prove you had seen it

[schrackman]

Here's one for you to ID, Paul. A common bird to so. Cal but somewhat of a tricky angle. The stripe behind the eye should help you.

[paulnj]

From the looks of it is infact not the more commom chipping sparrow, but a juvenile white crowned sparrow , but you are right... THIS is a very HARD image to ID. I assure you if you gave this image to 8 EXPERTS, not all would agree ;)

It looks house sparrow in nature, but the eye stripe is to defined

[Mike T]

This is getting to be a long thread, but here's another bird to make it longer. I shot this one also saturday evening 7/30, these little yellow warbler birds give me the hardest time IDing.

Mike

[paulnj]

OH this is a great bird to study!! YOUNG prairie warblers look VERY close to this and are common in NJ as breeders Right now the first wave of northern migrants is just starting to arrive.

What you have here is a first winter MAGNOLIA warbler !!!

WHITE under tail coverts with a black tip to the tail ;)

[almo]

Ok I know you are getting tired of me posting LBJ's that look like every other chick in the nest, but hey, if it ain't a challenge then what's the point huh?

[Lava Lamp]

Liz suggested that I start a thread of BIRD images to see if I can ID them ;)

warning though US species are my forte' , so don't be suprised it I can't ID your images from asia ;) I will do my best to ID as close to the actual species as I can.

POST any image(good or bad) as long as there is some detail to the bird. TELL ME ... WHERE and WHEN also

HERE is a goose hybrid from may 5th 2003

It is a greater white fronted/ canada goose hybrid

Here's another not-so-challenging one, but tell me, Swami...

[Lava Lamp]

Here's another not-so-challenging one, but tell me, Swami...

Same bird, differnt pose.

[paulnj]

BETTER images than I have taken(outside Florida that is) of a green heron

I want this thread to break the record for posts and views

[paulnj]

actually I AM NOT GETTING TIRED ;)

MOORHEN

[Lava Lamp]

BETTER images than I have taken(outside Florida that is) of a green heron

I want this thread to break the record for posts and views

Okay, here's another...