Winged Wednesday 5.4.2022

[Eric Gofreed]

My contribution to today's Winged Wednesday is the male Scott's Oriole. The Scott's oriole is one of three orioles that nest in the forest behind my home. Next week's Winged Wednesday I will post photos of the other two, the Bullocks and Hooded oriole. I was elated and very lucky to get a flight series of the Scott's a few days ago. My camera takes 30 frames/second or 0.033 sec between photos. From take-off to 3 strokes is about 0.10 seconds. This old man's reflexes are way too slow to tack an oriole in flight. When the oriole perched, I anticipated his takeoff, guess his flight path, and clicked away. Manual settings: f/7.1; ISO 2000, 1/2500 sec

I sensed he would take off and pressed the shutter button

I missed the crouch and push-off event.

This was my favorite from the series.

 

[AlanLichty]

Wow - you are really setting a high bar for the rest of us who are usually happy just capturing something with wings Great sequence.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Great set of images and a high bar indeed. I have lots of BIF but only birds that soar, small birds are way too fast.

 

[Trent Watts]

Very impressive Eric. A beautiful bird and great in flight shots.

 

[Trent Watts]

I was down by the river in our city and practising with my new camera to get some in flight shots. This Ring-billed Gull was sitting on a rock making gull sounds when another bird flying close by, did a sudden loop, reversing direction and dove right into the water to pick up this fresh water crab.

 

[Eric Gofreed]

I was down by the river in our city and practicing with my new camera to get some in-flight shots. This Ring-billed Gull was sitting on a rock making gull sounds when another bird flying close by, did a sudden loop, reversing direction and dove right into the water to pick up this fresh water crab.


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great series !!! Every photo is perfectly exposed. I'm guessing that's a fresh water shrimp

 

[Ken Rennie]

I am definitely not up to catching small birds at takeoff and my buffer isn't up to long bursts on the off chance. I suppose the Olympus system where they pre-record could be good but I am not going to buy into a new system just to get better bird shots. Perched garden birds from me. The catchlights in the 2 tits shows my house

Blue Tit

Great tit

This is a much less common Lesser Redpoll

 

[Trent Watts]

great series !!! Every photo is perfectly exposed. I'm guessing that's a fresh water shrimp

OOPs.. I did mean a shrimp.. Thanks for caching that Eric.

 

[AlanLichty]

I don't have a large collection of shots with me on the road so will go with another image of some cormorants on a log on the Siuslaw River from March.

 

[Ben Egbert]

As usual, this is from the archive, not doing much birding these days.


A white faced ibis from Idaho.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Wonderful images as usual, Eric. Here is a Scott's Oriole from your yard on Cedar Branches.

 

[Amy Nelson]

As usual, this is from the archive, not doing much birding these days.


A white faced ibis from Idaho.

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Beautiful Ibis!

 

[Amy Nelson]

Just visiting the feeder.