Once in a lifetime capture
Jul 27, 2012 07:53:58 #
Jul 27, 2012 08:36:54 #
Jul 27, 2012 08:45:00 #
WVHillbilly
Loc: West Virginia
You are kidding us, you timed that shot perfectly because you knew it was going to happen! right? LOL
What ever it is, very good and lucky catch. Thanks for sharing.
What ever it is, very good and lucky catch. Thanks for sharing.
Jul 27, 2012 09:07:53 #
Jul 27, 2012 09:28:27 #
WVHillbilly wrote:
You are kidding us, you timed that shot perfectly because you knew it was going to happen! right? LOL
What ever it is, very good and lucky catch. Thanks for sharing.
What ever it is, very good and lucky catch. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, the bird paused in mid air and had a strained expression so I knew something was about to happen. I pressed the shutter and....Ta-Da! LOL!
Jul 27, 2012 13:14:50 #
GreyGeek wrote:
While shooting backyard Hummingbirds yesterday, I captured this one. Now, I've seen hundreds of H'bird pics on the Internet, but none of them are peeing in mid air - I guess that makes my shot rather rare.
Comments please....
Comments please....
Nice shot! Much better than the crane (you can see his eye). My personal preference would be to lighten up the shadows a little allowing a little better definition.
I was out in the yard hoeing weeds yesterday and had a hummer inspecting me for some time. He hovered about 3 feet away making sure it was weeds only that I was after. Of course, I didn't have a camera and knew that if I did, he would never do that kind of pose for me.
Swede
Jul 27, 2012 13:22:32 #
GreyGeek wrote:
While shooting backyard Hummingbirds yesterday, I captured this one. Now, I've seen hundreds of H'bird pics on the Internet, but none of them are peeing in mid air - I guess that makes my shot rather rare.
Comments please....
Comments please....
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Absolutely ASTOUNDING!!
PERFECT timing and INDEED... once in a lifetime shot!
SUPER cool and Mega-kudos to you! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Jul 27, 2012 21:16:35 #
GreyGeek wrote:
While shooting backyard Hummingbirds yesterday, I captured this one. Now, I've seen hundreds of H'bird pics on the Internet, but none of them are peeing in mid air - I guess that makes my shot rather rare.
Comments please....
Comments please....
I liked the shot taken.
The one thing I really like about UHH is that it's always making me think harder. This time, since there were plesant arguments about what was shown in the picture, I had to learn more!
I have now learned more about animals.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_birds_excrete
Do birds excrete?
Yes birds do.
However ...
They don't urinate through a separate orifice. In birds and reptiles there is generally one opening which serves or feces, urine, reproduction and egg laying. This opening is called a cloaca.
The Details:
Like the reptiles, birds are primarily uricotelic, that is, their kidneys extract nitrogenous wastes from their bloodstream and excrete it as uric acid instead of urea or ammonia via the ureters into the intestine. Birds do not have a urinary bladder or external urethral opening and uric acid is excreted along with feces as a semisolid waste. However, birds such as hummingbirds can be facultatively ammonotelic, excreting most of the nitrogenous wastes as ammonia. They also excrete creatine (C4H9N3O2), rather than creatinine (C7H4N3O) like mammals. This material, as well as the output of the intestines, emerges from the bird's cloaca. The cloaca is a multi-purpose opening: waste is expelled through it, birds mate by joining cloaca, and females lay eggs from it. In addition to waste discharge from the cloaca, many species of birds, such as owls, regurgitate pellets of undigestible parts of their prey.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_birds_excrete#ixzz21sJZnquC
Jul 27, 2012 21:19:14 #
Swamp Gator wrote:
Great grab!
Hard to tell but usually the white stuff is not pee, it's generally a mid-air dump.
Hard to tell but usually the white stuff is not pee, it's generally a mid-air dump.
Show them some of your Egrets "Dumping in flight" :>)
Jul 27, 2012 21:34:25 #
Precisely !
Fstop12 wrote:
If that were true would that make this a "Crappy" photo?
Just kidding, nice capture.
Swamp Gator wrote:
Great grab!
Hard to tell but usually the white stuff is not pee, it's generally a mid-air dump.
Hard to tell but usually the white stuff is not pee, it's generally a mid-air dump.
If that were true would that make this a "Crappy" photo?
Just kidding, nice capture.
Jul 27, 2012 21:44:31 #
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I liked the shot taken.
The one thing I really like about UHH is that it's always making me think harder. This time, since there were plesant arguments about what was shown in the picture, I had to learn more!
I have now learned more about animals.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_birds_excrete
Do birds excrete?
Yes birds do.
However ...
They don't urinate through a separate orifice. In birds and reptiles there is generally one opening which serves or feces, urine, reproduction and egg laying. This opening is called a cloaca.
The Details:
Like the reptiles, birds are primarily uricotelic, that is, their kidneys extract nitrogenous wastes from their bloodstream and.......
Man, you really did your homework on this issue. Good job, and very interesting reading. So, it's not necessarily "pee" but urine may be included in the "squirt" in question. Thanks for the 411 on this, and your comments.
GreyGeek wrote:
While shooting backyard Hummingbirds yesterday, I captured this one. Now, I've seen hundreds of H'bird pics on the Internet, but none of them are peeing in mid air - I guess that makes my shot rather rare.
Comments please....
Comments please....
I liked the shot taken.
The one thing I really like about UHH is that it's always making me think harder. This time, since there were plesant arguments about what was shown in the picture, I had to learn more!
I have now learned more about animals.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Do_birds_excrete
Do birds excrete?
Yes birds do.
However ...
They don't urinate through a separate orifice. In birds and reptiles there is generally one opening which serves or feces, urine, reproduction and egg laying. This opening is called a cloaca.
The Details:
Like the reptiles, birds are primarily uricotelic, that is, their kidneys extract nitrogenous wastes from their bloodstream and.......
Man, you really did your homework on this issue. Good job, and very interesting reading. So, it's not necessarily "pee" but urine may be included in the "squirt" in question. Thanks for the 411 on this, and your comments.
Jul 27, 2012 22:54:08 #
Jul 28, 2012 11:27:42 #
I love the shot, personally, and couldn't really care less whether it's pee or water trailed from the feeder or elsewhere... the shot is a great, crisp, clear one.
Just sayin'.
(I'd be inclined to point out that if there were excrement mixed in with the urine, as has been thoroughly and completely researched above,... it would not be crystal clear and light as depicted in the photo. It would be cloudy at best.)
Just sayin'.
(I'd be inclined to point out that if there were excrement mixed in with the urine, as has been thoroughly and completely researched above,... it would not be crystal clear and light as depicted in the photo. It would be cloudy at best.)
Jul 28, 2012 11:31:29 #
Jul 28, 2012 16:46:52 #
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