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Bird photos of 2018

Beautiful! The Cedar Waxwing looks like water color, wow! The Snowy owl is really cool, I like them all. Thanks for sharing, always love these bird pictures of yours.

Wow! Thank you! Great photos, as always!

Wonderful. Tindo you take such good pictures. I wish you would have been here 3 years ago when I had the white Hawk. I never could get good pic's. He was wise to me.

Kinglets! I once saw a whole flock at the Indiana Dunes. Amazing photos, as usual. And, this may sound strange but, I love looking at the shrubbery they are resting on (or other backgrounds). Seeing them in that frame is so much better than a picture in a book! Thank you!

Nice! Would love to see a screech owl. Have recently seen a peregrine falcon and a red-bellied woodpecker.

Just what I've been waiting for.TYVM! :thankyou

Great photos, Tindo!:)
I like specially the Cedar Waxwing.

very nice photos, I enjoyed them all!
[favorites= Snowy Owl on fence & Townsends Solitaire]

Gorgeous photos Tindo!! Living in Europe, many of those birds are completely unknown to me. I love that olden-crowned Kinglet, but I have to say that my favorite photo is the Cedar Waxwing. What camera gear do you use for birds?

Hi,

Thanks for the comments. I am using a niko D500 with 300mm prime lens (Af-S Nikkor 300mm 1:4e PF ED VR). Prime make a huge difference. I have an AF-S Teleconverter TC-14E III that gives me that extra reach to 400mm. I don't regret getting it.

I have 2 primes (50mm, and a 90mm macro) and love the quality. But I haven't made the leap into prime lenses for telephoto, I like the versatility of a good zoom lens for wildlife, and the price of the big prime lenses makes me hesitate. I know they're awesome, but it's a lot of money.

I'm surprised that you can get so close with 400mm! I use a Tamron 70-300mm, and even on a crop sensor Canon I still find it a bit short for shooting small birds up in the trees.

I sneak up on them. Seriously though, I find tons of opportunities when the birds come down to me and are at my height give or take 4 feet. The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher for example was at about 5-6 feet off the ground and only 3-4 feet horizontal distance. The Townsend's Solitaire was up about 9-12 feet and at 10 or more feet away. That one was the stretch.

Amazing. I love those warblers! You even make them look as if they have emotions!

Coffee table book would be a best seller...just sayin' !

Another wonderful series of photos Tindo, thanks for sharing! I had no idea that Northern gannets were also found on your site of the Atlantic. I 'visited' (boat tour around a rocky island they nest on) a large colony off the coast of Edinburgh 4 years ago, and it was an amazing sight. I was hoping to go again this year, but it didn't work out.

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Bass Rock Gannets by Camille, on Flickr

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Bass Rock Gannets by Camille, on Flickr

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Bass Rock Gannets by Camille, on Flickr

Wow, I wish I could have seen them doing that. Awesome pictures!

Amazing shot Camille! Thanks for sharing.

Amazing photos! Thank you for sharing them! I always enjoy the birds that come to the yard but really being able to study them as one can in your photos is a nice switch to seeing them hopping and flying.

Wonderful, thanks to both of you.

Awesome pics I love birds like I love my orc**ds lol
My parrot

Hey Birdbrain, what species of cockatoo is that ?
It looks intriguing.

We have sulphur crested cockatoos, corellas and galahs (rosey chested cockatoos) flying around our neighbourhood.

I like the galahs, the corellas are Ok, but the sulphur crested cockatoos drive us nuts. We have about 150 of them roost in the tall spotted gum trees in our back yard and the neighbours yards. They make a terrible noise, make a mess everywhere, fly down and damage our fruit trees, and rip strips of timber off our house. I’ve been trying to gently suggest to them that they go roost somewhere else using recorded eagle calls but they won’t take the hint.

I don’t doubt they are very engaging pets however.

Cheers
Arron

Hi down under:) how exciting to hear from someone in Australia. Yes cockatoo are very noisy destructive in captivity I can only imagine how they would be in the wild. For me because I don't get to experience it,it would amazing to experience them In the wild. I've read in a parrot magazine that farmers down under would have an "open season" on cockatoos because of there destruction. That was 20+ years ago I hope with all the devastating habitat destruction they would some what protected now. Thank you I loved reading your thread. So long from Medford oregon usa