Afternoon Dove - another 75' closeup
Nov 21, 2018 22:15:15 #
Eurasian Collared Dove on the old swing set play house in late afternoon sun. To the necked eye this bird was more or less a black outline, some warm parts on the right side (west side) from the afternoon sun. So I used fill flash at a range of about 75 feet.
The sky was an off white overcast haze so I changed it to blue.
80D, Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 600, 1/250 @ f/8.0, ISO 200 off tripod
Extreme crop to fill the frame in this edit of the image so it is getting very grainy looking if you get too close when viewing.
Nothing really special about this dove except it was the first bird to return after a hawk cruised over.
The sky was an off white overcast haze so I changed it to blue.
80D, Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 600, 1/250 @ f/8.0, ISO 200 off tripod
Extreme crop to fill the frame in this edit of the image so it is getting very grainy looking if you get too close when viewing.
Nothing really special about this dove except it was the first bird to return after a hawk cruised over.
Nov 22, 2018 02:46:41 #
Nov 22, 2018 08:20:14 #
robertjerl wrote:
Eurasian Collared Dove on the old swing set play h... (show quote)
Jerry, like I said on the other UHH forum, awesome.
Greg
Nov 22, 2018 08:58:27 #
robertjerl wrote:
Eurasian Collared Dove on the old swing set play h... (show quote)
beautiful download, Robert.
Nov 22, 2018 09:26:40 #
Nov 22, 2018 14:43:10 #
DOOK wrote:
It's a mystery dove, Jerry.
Could be. Earlier this week I had a hawk on the power wires and a single dove, same species (same dove?) landed on the wire about 50 feet away and proceeded to call like it was warning everyone else to stay away.
Nov 22, 2018 14:43:34 #
CLF wrote:
Jerry, like I said on the other UHH forum, awesome.
Greg
Greg
Thank you
Nov 22, 2018 14:43:54 #
Nov 22, 2018 14:44:17 #
Nov 22, 2018 22:32:28 #
Nov 23, 2018 00:19:41 #
Beautiful work, Jerry! These big guys don't visit our feeders very often.
Nov 23, 2018 00:36:57 #
Nov 23, 2018 00:46:30 #
Dixiegirl wrote:
Beautiful work, Jerry! These big guys don't visit our feeders very often.
Thank you. You may one day wish you didn't have a lot of them. I have had 20-30 in and around my yard at once. Last year I had three kinds of doves and one type of pigeon in my yard at the same time. Mourning Dove, Eurasian Collared Dove, African Collared Dove* and Band Tailed Pigeon.
*Eurasian and African Collared Doves are almost identical but the African doves are lighter in color, sometimes almost white to blend with sand. There are only a few areas where escapees and their descendants can thrive in the US. Here in my part of Southern California is one of those areas. I have read that after a few generations they tend to breed with Eurasians and get darker.
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