~Avian Photography~ Post your bird pix! - Page 17 - Wildlife Gardeners

fishlkmich · 06-27-2009, 08:01 AM

After adding a few inches of dried grasses, tree swallows always find the most perfect feathers and add them to their nest before they lay eggs and into the first week after hatching. The young are born in a nest bowl of soft feathers. I believe that I could spend an entire spring looking for enough feathers to construct one nest. I have no idea how they do it.

TheLorax · 06-30-2009, 12:08 AM

You who Sage. I have some avian photographs to post for you. My subjects were very cooperative.

TheLorax · 06-30-2009, 12:09 AM

I missed one.

Staff · 06-30-2009, 08:16 AM

Your subjects were very dead. :eek:

TheLorax · 06-30-2009, 10:53 PM

I have some nice pelicans. They were alive and they did not float out of my photo.

Sage would be so proud of me.

havalotta · 06-30-2009, 11:43 PM

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm proud of you!
Those are great shots! I see the male now up close with his horn on his bill.

havalotta · 06-30-2009, 11:44 PM

Lorax Are you a taxidermist? Those bird photos are good still shots!

TheLorax · 07-01-2009, 12:34 AM

My personal friend rondo is a taxidermist. I am not.

I pointed my camera up in the air and took the photos of stuffed birds. I have been trying for a long long time to take photos of birds flying.

Thank you for the compliments on the pelicans. They were gliding slowly through the water round and round a little island. I missed them the first few times.

This is a turkey with 6 babies that I had to use a zoom on. I was inside the car so I could see the viewer with no reflections. I took many photos before she disappeared. This is the only photo I didn't delete.

MaggyNoLia · 07-01-2009, 12:45 AM

Least Tern

havalotta · 07-01-2009, 12:47 AM

Way better than the ones I tried to get.

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Too much zoom ruined them. The next one I saw with little ones flew and they were blurry also.

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I snuck up on this one but it was pretty hard to do. They have awfully good eyesight especially way up there!

06-30-2009, 12:08 AM	#162
TheLorax Unicellular Fungi Join Date: Nov 2008	You who Sage. I have some avian photographs to post for you. My subjects were very cooperative. Attached Thumbnails __________________ "In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist

06-30-2009, 12:09 AM	#163
TheLorax Unicellular Fungi Join Date: Nov 2008	I missed one. Attached Thumbnails __________________ "In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist

06-30-2009, 08:16 AM	#164
Staff WG Staff Join Date: Nov 2008	Your subjects were very dead. :eek: __________________ The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. -Mencius

06-30-2009, 10:53 PM	#165
TheLorax Unicellular Fungi Join Date: Nov 2008	I have some nice pelicans. They were alive and they did not float out of my photo. Sage would be so proud of me. Attached Thumbnails __________________ "In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist

07-01-2009, 12:34 AM	#168
TheLorax Unicellular Fungi Join Date: Nov 2008	My personal friend rondo is a taxidermist. I am not. I pointed my camera up in the air and took the photos of stuffed birds. I have been trying for a long long time to take photos of birds flying. Thank you for the compliments on the pelicans. They were gliding slowly through the water round and round a little island. I missed them the first few times. This is a turkey with 6 babies that I had to use a zoom on. I was inside the car so I could see the viewer with no reflections. I took many photos before she disappeared. This is the only photo I didn't delete. Attached Thumbnails __________________ "In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; we will understand only what we have been taught." -Baba Dioum, Senegalese ecologist

06-27-2009, 08:01 AM	#161
fishlkmich Salamander Join Date: Nov 2008	After adding a few inches of dried grasses, tree swallows always find the most perfect feathers and add them to their nest before they lay eggs and into the first week after hatching. The young are born in a nest bowl of soft feathers. I believe that I could spend an entire spring looking for enough feathers to construct one nest. I have no idea how they do it.

06-30-2009, 11:43 PM	#166
havalotta WG Prize & Gift Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Michigan	Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm proud of you! Those are great shots! I see the male now up close with his horn on his bill.

06-30-2009, 11:44 PM	#167
havalotta WG Prize & Gift Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Michigan	Lorax Are you a taxidermist? Those bird photos are good still shots!

07-01-2009, 12:45 AM	#169
MaggyNoLia Fox Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Carolina	Least Tern Attached Thumbnails

07-01-2009, 12:47 AM	#170
havalotta WG Prize & Gift Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Michigan	Way better than the ones I tried to get. Too much zoom ruined them. The next one I saw with little ones flew and they were blurry also. I snuck up on this one but it was pretty hard to do. They have awfully good eyesight especially way up there!

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