Flying Through Liquid Gold
Aug 18, 2020 04:24:22 #
Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
Not 100% on my ID, this bird is only here during migration and the only shore birds with its colors we get are the Lesser Yellowlegs, Greater Yellowlegs and the the Least Sandpiper. It is too big to be the Least Sandpiper. But seems too small to be a Greater Yellowlegs - it is aprx the size of a Black Necked Stilt. This bird also uses the flight positions described in the ID literature.
They breed in Northern Canada and Alaska and migrate south as far as South America. Here were I live we have wintering grounds along the Pacific Coast west of us and around the Salton Sea to the east of us. But we have a fair number of parks with lakes/marshes of the type they like. This one was part of a small flock at a local park lake in late November.
7DII, Tamron 150-600 G1 @ 500, 1/1000 @ f/6.3, ISO-2000 hand held at about 25 yards in warm late afternoon light.
Not 100% on my ID, this bird is only here during migration and the only shore birds with its colors we get are the Lesser Yellowlegs, Greater Yellowlegs and the the Least Sandpiper. It is too big to be the Least Sandpiper. But seems too small to be a Greater Yellowlegs - it is aprx the size of a Black Necked Stilt. This bird also uses the flight positions described in the ID literature.
They breed in Northern Canada and Alaska and migrate south as far as South America. Here were I live we have wintering grounds along the Pacific Coast west of us and around the Salton Sea to the east of us. But we have a fair number of parks with lakes/marshes of the type they like. This one was part of a small flock at a local park lake in late November.
7DII, Tamron 150-600 G1 @ 500, 1/1000 @ f/6.3, ISO-2000 hand held at about 25 yards in warm late afternoon light.
Aug 18, 2020 05:14:25 #
Busy! Very, very busy. But amazingly sweet. Definitely not bad for a Canon guy, Rob.
Aug 18, 2020 05:25:22 #
cameraf4 wrote:
Busy! Very, very busy. But amazingly sweet. Definitely not bad for a Canon guy, Rob.
Thanks, yes all the distorted reflections of the trees in the waves and ripples do make it a very busy image and the bird is not quite enough different to stand out as much as I would like. Someone better at PP work could have separated the bird and back ground made some changes and made the bird stand out more
Aug 18, 2020 05:40:12 #
robertjerl wrote:
Thanks, yes all the distorted reflections of the trees in the waves and ripples do make it a very busy image and the bird is not quite enough different to stand out as much as I would like. Someone better at PP work could have separated the bird and back ground made some changes and made the bird stand out more
Don't change a thing. It's like "Where's Waldo".
Aug 18, 2020 05:46:49 #
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Aug 18, 2020 14:36:57 #
cameraf4 wrote:
Don't change a thing. It's like "Where's Waldo".
Actually the larger you make it the better the bird stands out.
Aug 18, 2020 14:37:14 #
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Aug 19, 2020 08:02:01 #
robertjerl wrote:
Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes br br Not 10... (show quote)
Fantastic image!!!
Busy ? Better than boring, overexposed, OOF
Aug 19, 2020 09:28:37 #
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