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O and Doc,....Welcome to the dark side!!

Sunset. We had the same atmospheric haze this time last year at our cottage. Forrest fires or farmers burning fields. The moon was very yellow compared to normal.

With 100-400 MK II

This is the look I normally get from this gal

airbutchie wrote in post #17573204
Chirp, chirp... CHIRP!!!

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This hummer stayed long enough to pose for me while I captured several photographs of it!!! 7D2 + 400 2.8L II 'non-IS' + Canon 1.4x II and 2x II TC's (stacked)... 1,120mm FOV, 1,792 with crop factor... Portrait mode with no cropping on this image... NONE!!! Took a few moments to find this guy through the viewfinder... LOL!!! ISO 400, f/8 @ 1/80sec... Two second shutter release timer on-camera...

Extraordinary Butch, well done.

Cheers
Gus

Lupo-Lobo wrote in post #17573542
This is the look I normally get from this gal

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And then every so often she will give me a little pose

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Question...How do you know it's a female? I've never been able to tell the males and females apart.

I agree Gus, super nice job Butch,....

And I was wondering the same Paul but I saw it as car's, trucks, Boats, your fav camera, There all she's

They are nearly identical, I am told, with the male being somewhat larger. There are plenty of jays in the neighborhood to compare size with and this one is on the smaller side. Could still be a male but I am going with female here.

This particular jay usually has an interest in whatever I am doing ... very curious and seemingly more intelligent than some of the others. For example, the jays do not like our upright feeder, it's hard for them to get seed out, some of them try brute force by pecking at the feeder and others just look on the ground for any spilled seed. The jay in the photo handles it another way. She/he keeps an eye on the feeder and when sparrows or cardinals come to feed from it, she will land underneath the feeder and wait for the little birds to spill some down to her/him.

airbutchie wrote in post #17573204
Chirp, chirp... CHIRP!!!

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/topK​HY Chirp Chirp Chirp by Air Butchie, on Flickr

This hummer stayed long enough to pose for me while I captured several photographs of it!!! 7D2 + 400 2.8L II 'non-IS' + Canon 1.4x II and 2x II TC's (stacked)... 1,120mm FOV, 1,792 with crop factor... Portrait mode with no cropping on this image... NONE!!! Took a few moments to find this guy through the viewfinder... LOL!!! ISO 400, f/8 @ 1/80sec... Two second shutter release timer on-camera...

Very, very nice shot.

Doc

Lupo-Lobo wrote in post #17573729
They are nearly identical, I am told, with the male being somewhat larger. There are plenty of jays in the neighborhood to compare size with and this one is on the smaller side. Could still be a male but I am going with female here.

This particular jay usually has an interest in whatever I am doing ... very curious and seemingly more intelligent than some of the others. For example, the jays do not like our upright feeder, it's hard for them to get seed out, some of them try brute force by pecking at the feeder and others just look on the ground for any spilled seed. The jay in the photo handles it another way. She/he keeps an eye on the feeder and when sparrows or cardinals come to feed from it, she will land underneath the feeder and wait for the little birds to spill some down to her/him.

Thank you!

That's excellent. I love watching the jays in my yard too.

Lupo-Lobo wrote in post #17573729
They are nearly identical, I am told, with the male being somewhat larger. There are plenty of jays in the neighborhood to compare size with and this one is on the smaller side. Could still be a male but I am going with female here.

This particular jay usually has an interest in whatever I am doing ... very curious and seemingly more intelligent than some of the others. For example, the jays do not like our upright feeder, it's hard for them to get seed out, some of them try brute force by pecking at the feeder and others just look on the ground for any spilled seed. The jay in the photo handles it another way. She/he keeps an eye on the feeder and when sparrows or cardinals come to feed from it, she will land underneath the feeder and wait for the little birds to spill some down to her/him.

Nice shots. I've seen a few Blue jays around my backyard. Of course, it wasn't when I had my camera out. This morning when I let the dog out, there as a large male cardinal sitting on the fence. I would put up a feeder but my wife doesn't want me to as she is concerned that it might attract the birds to the blackberry bushes she has and the tomatoes in our small garden.


Doc

You're welcome

McNeese72 wrote in post #17573765
Nice shots. I've seen a few Blue jays around my backyard. Of course, it wasn't when I had my camera out. This morning when I let the dog out, there as a large male cardinal sitting on the fence. I would put up a feeder but my wife doesn't want me to as she is concerned that it might attract the birds to the blackberry bushes she has and the tomatoes in our small garden.

Doc

Thanks. Hard to blame her ...

Edit * I was in a hurry to make dinner earlier and cut the post short. We have a pretty healthy population of Blue Jays for the last several generations. I was worried about the birds getting my tomatoes and strawberries but found that they were only mildly accosted by the birds as long as the birds had plenty of water and traditional food. Tomatoes are more likely to become a source of water during drought conditions. However, there is one rather peculiar squirrel that likes to harvest the strawberries daily and is not afraid to let me know about it. (Take note of what is in his greedy little paws)

airbutchie wrote in post #17573204
Chirp, chirp... CHIRP!!!

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/topK​HY Chirp Chirp Chirp by Air Butchie, on Flickr

This hummer stayed long enough to pose for me while I captured several photographs of it!!! 7D2 + 400 2.8L II 'non-IS' + Canon 1.4x II and 2x II TC's (stacked)... 1,120mm FOV, 1,792 with crop factor... Portrait mode with no cropping on this image... NONE!!! Took a few moments to find this guy through the viewfinder... LOL!!! ISO 400, f/8 @ 1/80sec... Two second shutter release timer on-camera...

Looks like you got lucky with the back side of the dof still including the eye. I have no idea how (what it would get stored under) , but for this combo I would add a couple of clicks of + mfa.

I would have named this photo Smoothe for the Broken. VERY Nice.

House finch

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My wife having some fun at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens:

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