Good catch, Robert.
robertjerl wrote:
I put out peanuts in the shell for the Jays & Woodpeckers. But most of them are gotten by the squirrels (when my dog is napping) or crows and ravens. Now the squirrels just take and eat them. But the crows and ravens go to the water dishes and bird bath and soak them, crack them and leave the shells in the water while splashing most of it out so I have to go out and clean and refill the water dishes. Not to mention replace the peanuts. I buy the big bags at Costco, the birds like them and if I get the munchies I can eat them also (I buy one bag of salted ones for me.)
This crow took off when I positioned my tripod in the doorway to get shots of it splashing in the water with a peanut. You can see water drops on the feathers and a peanut with one side cracked open and the other intact. I tried tracking the bird as it went from the dish across the yard and up to the power lines and this was the best frame I got. I didn't have my red dot mounted for tracking so it was look over the top of the camera/lens and guesstimate. One big problem was the black bird against the blue sky - I had to work to bring up any details and that produced noise. Yes the bird is starting to reach for the power line with it's feet. I cloned out the line and a bunch of connector and bracing wires - not a really good cloning job, but I got rid of them.
80D, Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 309 (when it was at the water dish I backed off the zoom in case he spread his wings), 1/1000 @ f/8.0, ISO-160 because the spot meter setting got mostly sky. Range to the power pole is 75' and the lines are 40+ feet up.
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