OK, that would be a danger to my wallet!
And look well-nigh identical to the UK Magpie - though the Latin name is different.
A young one from yesterday for contrast:
No scolding that I noticed :)
Happily, Prospect Park often gives a good distance view, so I can see them coming, especially if circling - even so, I often lose focus especially when "close" overhead. There's also the curse of shooting dark subjects against bright sky - my camera's auto settings would have this photo as little more than a silhouette, but happily shooting in RAW allowed a decent recovery.
Looking back at my old photos from various locations, that "not round pupil" thing in wood pigeons seems more often present than not. I wasn't something I'd looked previously out for.
Yay, I'm glad for you!
Really nice to get that angle - I'd guess you were half way up a mountain at the time.
You will be shocked to know even the mother can walk through those bars.
Thanks - thought you'd have to have a huge pixel count otherwise.
Anyway, hoping to walk to a new spot when photoing birds, and not expecting it to flow off, is a mug's game :)
I like the way you've shown the context in one photo, the bird in the other. Is that just digital zoom or two photos and an optical zoom?
I think this is either a Wood or Willow Warbler (with, I think, too much yellow to be a Chiffchaff), photographed today in Prospect Park, Reading on the edge of the small wood in the park. Anyone better at bird ID would be welcome to chip in. I've a more boring pose but without the shadow across the eye if that would help.
Canon R6 + RF 600mm lens
I just took this grey squirrel photo on the off-chance, and was rather pleased that it came out pretty well. ISO25600 is far from ideal, and it has been got at by Topaz AI (which, when it works, definitely works!).
Canon R6 + RF 600mm lens
Kept dark as it seemed to suit.
Red Kite, Berkshire UK. It might have been some distance away sitting on the top of a decent sized tree, but it did not like a camera pointed in its direction! Still, I got this photo before it circled away.
Canon R6 + F11 600mm lens, 1/1000s, ISO640.
Sharpened in Topaz AI - the head improves, the wings where there was motion blur are more questionable! A faster exposure might have been possible if I'd known the opportunity was coming to sharpen things up, but alas, not that sort of walk.
House Sparrow, UK Very common, and obviously on a bird feeder, but I liked the result.
Canon R6 + RF F11 600mm, so the main issue was trying to be far enough away to get past the minimum focal distance!
After getting jealous from seeing the results of skill, patience, and stacking macro photos in the news, I was pleased to find today's crop of photos using a Canon R6 + RF 100mm macro lens can still do a satisfying photo.
I'm guessing it's a Common Wasp, but don't have the knowledge to be sure!
Reading, UK with a Canon R6 + RF100mm lens
Not anything as intentional as it appears - I just saw the shadows of the mid morning sun providing a natural frame/vignette round the well lit lock, and took the shot.
Prospect Park, Reading, UK
Canon R6 + F11 RF 600mm lens
Of course, I'm being unfair, it's probably either a young bird or in its summer moult.
Sorry about the clipped tail - it was very close, and the lens doesn't zoom.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1620941
Prospect Park, Reading, UK Canon R6 RF F11 600mm, 1/1000s, ISO 2000 Almost too close for the lens!
Prospect Park, Reading, UK Canon R6 RF F11 600mm, 1/1000s, ISO 2000 Almost too close for the lens!
Prospect Park, Reading, UK Canon R6 + F11 600mm lens, 1/1250s, ISO1250
I liked the play of sun and shadow in this photo, and that, for once, the Kite wasn't paying attention to me and my poor attempts to get closer.
I'd guess a young herring gull, Saundersfoot, South Wales.
I was pleased with the composition and general look, but suggestions for improvements welcome.
Canon R6 + 600mm lens, 1/1250s, ISO 1250
Saundersfoot, South Wales.
Canon R6 + 600mm F11 lens, ISO 400, exposure time mistakenly at a slow 1/320s (should have been 1/1000) but doesn’t seem to have harmed.
I also like it as a photo of the rope, chain & canvas in their own right.
Experimental first post here by a Reddit Refugee. (2nd attempt)
I think it fairly obvious that the first European settlers in North America were far from Ornithologists :)
As you've most likely already seen to find those links, Red-tailed hawks and (what I think of as) a Buzzard share a genus Buteo.