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03-24-2020, 03:03 PM - 9 Likes   #33106
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Ruffled Redshank and Whimbrel

From the old days of scouring the tidal areas of the Frisian Isles with 784mm handheld


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QuoteOriginally posted by Chris Mak Quote
From the old days of scouring the tidal areas of the Frisian Isles with 784mm handheld
Very impressive Chris. I find it hard at 400mm!

A lot of migratory waders are in decline due to habitat loss, climate change and degradation of the flyways. For example, Eastern Curlews used to be abundant along the local coast but their numbers have plummeted. It's very concerning. Hope the Redshanks and Whimbrels are OK.
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Very impressive Chris. I find it hard at 400mm!

A lot of migratory waders are in decline due to habitat loss, climate change and degradation of the flyways. For example, Eastern Curlews used to be abundant along the local coast but their numbers have plummeted. It's very concerning. Hope the Redshanks and Whimbrels are OK.
Thanks Des, I used to get a lot of practice handholding the DA560 with the winds gushing around me. Now I am spoiled by the OS of the Canon 400DOII and the Nikon 500PF, and have to watch out for my long lens technique, not to think it is all that easy because of the stabilized viewfinder.

I am afraid we are faced (in Western Europe) with declining numbers in all and everything that has to do with wildlife and nature. My way out of the distress that this loss of nature inevitably causes, is to try and get "into the moment" and concentrate my thoughts on nothing else but being in the company of the birds and spending some time with them. I wish all of their species a better future on this planet, but try to keep a realistic outlook on the enduring rise and especially, scale increase, of modern society.
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Your FA400 is doing magic. Mine tends to produce softer images when the subject is a bit farther away.
Thanks, swip. May be it was a good investment to spend some time (hours) of adjusting the AF of the camera(s) to the lens?



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A couple from this afternoon, Tamron Adaptall-2 SP 400/4 65B + Pentax Rear Converter 1.4x-L



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Sitting at this desk and posting on PF I was also watching birds out on the old picnic table I use as a bird feeder. From the desk I have to shoot through a dirty two-glass window that's about eight feet away, so IQ suffers, but images aren't too bad. Taken with an Oly EM10, 300mm f4 and 1.4X.
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Plaintive Cuckoo taken at Sandakan RDC with my Kp, DA300 and the TC1.4



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White-necked heron, appropriate name. 100~400mm vario-Elmar.
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Some images from an outing today
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What bird is this?
(sub-title; Des, what page of Morcombe?)

Not quite in focus I think, and the bird in bottom left corner may be a mate(?)
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Tree-rat, AKA grey squirrel, one of the dark phase variations that's becoming more common.
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Some images from an outing today
Love the female cardinal and squirrel picture. The look on the cardinal says what is this idiot doing in reference to the squirrel, or it does to me.
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What bird is this? (sub-title; Des, what page of Morcombe?)
Not quite in focus I think, and the bird in bottom left corner may be a mate(?)
Rod, the bird on the left is a Silvereye (Morcombe p.346; ABG p.486). The bird on the right is a fantail. I think it is an immature Grey Fantail (Morcombe p.300; ABG p.460) in the process of morphing from its brownish juvenile plumage towards the adult black/grey/white.

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