Post your Bird Portraits (2)

Lame-Duck wrote in post #19434133
These are two cool photos, sogs! It's got everyone counting starlings. I counted over a dozen.

Thank you LD! I never thought of counting.

Time waits for no one!

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Bill being Smug
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Bill being Smug
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kd_reno wrote in post #19434031
Phoebe at the beach. I think they come down to feed on kelp flies.

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/2nRJ​sAn Black Phoebe by Ken Drozd, on Flickr

Remind me some muscular guys in gym centre with chicken legs.

To think another way....there's always another way.

sogs wrote in post #19433967
European Starlings. Gathering for migration.

Impressive!

To think another way....there's always another way.

Lame-Duck wrote in post #19434133
Very nice capture of the belted kingfisher, Jimmy! These guy are surely tough to get close to...at least for me. Nice work.

Thanks so much, Mike!
He just finished devouring some sort of crayfish, so I had a second to compose.

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Great-horned owlet

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realairlight wrote in post #19434254
Remind me some muscular guys in gym centre with chicken legs.

Not a bad description. It does have that look.

Ken
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Sandhill Crane

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Grey-throated Sunbird (Anthreptes griseigularis) by Paolo Dolina, on Flickr

A small bird of lowland wooded areas with a fairly long, slightly curved, stout bill and yellow underparts. Male has a pale gray throat, a dark reddish cheek and wing patch, a purplish-blue forehead and shoulder, and bottle green on the sides of the throat, the back of the neck, and the crown. Female is fairly drab, with a grayish-brown head and an olive-green back and rump. Male unmistakable. Female similar to several other species, but larger, with a broader bill. Voice not well known, but probably gives a loud “whip!” similar to Brown-throated Sunbird.

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Lame-Duck wrote in post #19434097
Lesster, your entire series of 6 images are all very nice! Great work!

Thank you, very much appreciated.

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1/1000 • f/6.3 • ISO 400

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Bill being Smug
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