Post your Bird Portraits

N.V.M. wrote in post #18230618
the 500mm does that, lol.

You are too modest, the photog has to select a good location too!

My first outing of the year resulted in my best views of a Crossbill yet. This male put on a good show before taking his harem away. Shame about the background but you cant have it all.

harris hawk

An Inquisitive Red-Shouldered Hawk.

This hawk let me get close to within 30 feet of his perch. He looked at me inquisitively for a few seconds then decided that I was harmless. He then continued scanning around his environment, possibly looking for some food. After a few minutes, he silently jumped off the perch, flew past me and headed to the other side of the lake.

robin

Black-crowned night-heron, adult and juvenile

Pondrader wrote in post #18230654
Gold Finch

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Thats beautiful Jeff

I am bit over the moon with this.

Thanks Bret,

Oldjackssparrows wrote in post #18230774
Thats beautiful Jeff

Brown Pelican in Mating Colors

Canon 1D Mark IV, Canon 600mm f/4L II + Canon 2X extender + Kenko 1.5 non-reporting extender (1800mm total focal length), 1/500" @ f/8, ISO 1250, manual exposure, tripod.

That's a lot of tubes on there Duane, must have been tough to get such good focus as you did.

Duane N wrote in post #18230971
Canon 1D Mark IV, Canon 600mm f/4L II + Canon 2X extender + Kenko 1.5 non-reporting extender (1800mm total focal length), 1/500" @ f/8, ISO 1250, manual exposure, tripod.

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Really quite a lovely shot.

NYS Photo wrote in post #18230999
That's a lot of tubes on there Duane, must have been tough to get such good focus as you did.

I'd rather not do it this way but with a bird that's been chased by other people the last thing I wanted to do was be one of them just to get a picture so this is how I do it.