Winged Wednesday 1/26/2022

[Eric Gofreed]

Little Blue Heron:

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Double Crested Cormorant:

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you are a master-level bird photographer, Amy

 

[Eric Gofreed]

Great pictures from everyone. What an amazing collection of pictures on this forum. My continuations include one with a 'contrasting color' and two on the 'color blue' theme.

Bohemian Waxwing.

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Blue Jay (on a very big 'stick'.)
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Blue Tit (United Kingdom) on a stick.
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I am loving your birds and your photography, Trent

 

[Eric Gofreed]

Wow - quite the collection so far. Beautiful stuff.

Mine contribution for today is another one from the beaches with a collection of Western Gulls hanging out at the mouth of Ecloa Creek at Cannon Beach, Oregon.

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Love birds in their habitat so obviously, I love your photo. That's a lot of gulls. I know adult western gulls have yellow legs and first-year WGs have reddish legs. A few gulls are quite a bit smaller than western gulls. Regrettably, the pic is too pixilated to ID

 

[Eric Gofreed]

My offering is a bird on a stick. I was not able to ID this in my Peterson guide. So I will just post it.

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This is a house wren, Ben. And an extraordinarily beautifully photographed wren too.

 

[Amy Nelson]

you are a master-level bird photographer, Amy

Thanks for the very kind completement, but I have only been doing birds for a minute compared to the rest of you. I still have much to learn, any CC would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Amy Nelson]

As they say on Sesame Street, today's contributions to "Winged Wednesday" are brought to you by the color "blue" and "pretty birds on a stick."

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male Western bluebird. (Doug, this was taken yesterday on Beaverhead Flat Road)

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male Mountain bluebird almost on a stick

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Lazuli bunting

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Juvenile Steller's jay

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Shining honeycreeper (Costa Rica)

Great set of images, your Western Bluebird is absolutely exquisite.

 

[AlanLichty]

Love birds in their habitat so obviously, I love your photo. That's a lot of gulls. I know adult western gulls have yellow legs and first-year WGs have reddish legs. A few gulls are quite a bit smaller than western gulls. Regrettably, the pic is too pixilated to ID

Thanks Eric - this was a 14 year old handheld shot from a Canon 5D using ISO500 - not a recipe for clean details I'm afraid.

 

[Eric Gofreed]

Thanks Eric - this was a 14 year old handheld shot from a Canon 5D using ISO500 - not a recipe for clean details I'm afraid.

I think it's limiting the photo to 1800 MP on the long edge

 

[Eric Gofreed]

Thanks for the very kind completement, but I have only been doing birds for a minute compared to the rest of you. I still have much to learn, any CC would be greatly appreciated.

I'll certainly give CC. However, I have not seen an occasion to do so.

 

[AlanLichty]

I think it's limiting the photo to 1800 MP.

This is an image taken a few moments after the first one I posted. It had some other issues so I passed on processing it for today but I isolated the birds and used very minimal processing. It has not been reduced from the original - just the crop. The first image was reduced to 1200 pixels wide. This one will survive pixel peeping at 100% for the gull ID.

 

[Trent Watts]

I am loving your birds and your photography, Trent

Thanks so much Eric. I appreciate your support.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

where did you get the honeycreeper? All great photos, Doug

I got this at Butterfly World in Coconut, FL.