[csa]

Indeed I have, and they are exceptional! I just loved the wing motion on yours!

[swip]

The recent trip from Chiang Mai I got quite a number of blue flycatchers (which I like and lack of), previously most of the flycatchers that I got are mostly dull brown color.
Sharing shots of this Himalayan Blue Tail (male)

#1 side view


#2 front view


#3 back view

What a great capture of a great looking bird!

[WPRESTO]

Molting.

As Ogden Nash said, I think of canaries: When they're molting, they're pretty revolting.

[WPRESTO]

Haven't posted a turkey for a while. The stone bench in the background is part of a memorial to the primary architect of Quabbin Reservoir. To protect the watershed, a large area in/around the reservoir was cleared of all human habitation, and this land has become known as the "accidental wilderness."

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DA*300 + 1.4HD TC

That beaver's face reminds me of my Biology professor from college...

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GBH make great models for me as I improve my long shot techniques. You can get close to them here and they stand still for a long time.

Nice catch here. That 300 is one sharp piece of glass.

Thanks!

Unfortunately where I shoot you can't get too close...
They are in the wild and are very very skittish.

I try to just setup at this one spot I know they frequently fish and wait for one to fly in. The one in this picture was a juvenile and was curious about me; until I tried to re-position my monopod and he flew off.

[WPRESTO]

That beaver's face reminds me of my Biology professor from college...

Hey! As a retired college bio professor (to quote Groucho), I resemble that remark. Would that I had so much hair at any time of my life.

[normhead]

K-3 - A-400 and 1.7 AF TC

ISO 400, ƒ11, AV (1/200 and 1/320

You need a really bright day to use the A-400 (or any 5.6 lens, with the 1.7 TC. It's really made for 2.8 lenses. ) And also, just because you're technique is steady enough to use 400mm, doesn't mean it's steady enough for 700. Yet, I got a few images, of course the one that would have been perfect, the little guy ducked behind another bird, body perfectly in focus, but no head. At least I got a few for my efforts out in the cold. Even in bright sun, with a lens that has a maximum aperture of 9.3, focus is really hit and miss. But even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then. (Of course smell is a big thing for finding nuts... but I digress.)

Presenting Mr. and Mrs. Purple Finch

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[r0ckstarr]

That beaver's face reminds me of my Biology professor from college...

Funny, but it's not a beaver.

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Funny, but it's not a beaver.

Coypu?
They are invasive where I live.. We call em swamp beavers.

Fish and Wildlife Service wants you to kill them if seen. Trying to eradicate the species from our wetlands.

[r0ckstarr]

Coypu?
They are invasive where I live.. We call em swamp beavers.

Fish and Wildlife Service wants you to kill them if seen. Trying to eradicate the species from our wetlands.

Had to google "Coypu", but that's it. We call them Nutria Rats here, and until I read the Wiki, I thought that's all they were called. So, yeah, I guess you're right. You say beaver, I think of a flat tailed tree eater, lol. Nutria's are invasive here as well.

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Had to google "Coypu", but that's it. We call them Nutria Rats here, and until I read the Wiki, I thought that's all they were called. So, yeah, I guess you're right. You say beaver, I think of a flat tailed tree eater, lol. Nutria's are invasive here as well.

We also call muskrat - Marsh Bunny
and seagulls - flying rats

So don't take me too seriously, lol

I've never seen a Nutria/Coypu in real life; none the less, great shot!!

[r0ckstarr]

We also call muskrat - Marsh Bunny
and seagulls - flying rats

So don't take me too seriously, lol

I've never seen a Nutria/Coypu in real life; none the less, great shot!!

Oh and don't forget squirrels are actually called "Tree Rats".

This is maybe the 4th time I have ever seen a Coypu/Nutria in real life as well.

[Dewman]

Oh and don't forget squirrels are actually called "Tree Rats".

This is maybe the 4th time I have ever seen a Coypu/Nutria in real life as well.

Way back in the early 60's, nutria were thought to be the new, up-coming "affordable mink." I can remember several farmers in the Central Valley of California who built long, cinder block enclosures for them. They even advertised them as give-away prizes on day-time TV game shows. IIRC, they were called Cabanna-Maron (???sp) fur coats.


It never took off and the famers planted almonds and pistachios and became millionaires!

[jacamar]

Here's another tropical hawk taken with the DA 55-300mm. Barred Forest-Falcon, follows ant swarms and picks off large insects disturbed by the ants, and a the odd bird that is also attracted by the scattering insects (there's a whole category of "antbirds").Taken in very poor light.

[WPRESTO]

Oh and don't forget squirrels are actually called "Tree Rats".

This is maybe the 4th time I have ever seen a Coypu/Nutria in real life as well.

Legend of the fraternity house where I lived a couple years was that during the Great Depression they would sometime eat "roof rabbit" - a small mammal that jumped roof-to-roof and said "meow."