Varied Thrush Our Yard 4-1-3-2021
Apr 6, 2021 16:11:14 #
As promised, some Varied Thrush shots, much anticipated by some I understand.
A pair of Varied Thrushes hang around our barnyard area. The female is somewhat less brightly colored and is a more retiring bird. I think #4,6,7 are images off a female Varied Thrush. Our male has a "shield" of orange in his dark purple chest band.
Used both my D500 and D850 for these shots taken from 4-1 to 4-3-2021. Once I set my camera down and started work again, the thrushes and doves and robins would fly in and look for food. As soon as I went for the camera, they would all fly off! Taking long breaks sitting quietly worked to allow the birds to gain enough trust to land and forage. And for me to get some shots!
Camera setting varied according to the needs of the exposure-1/500 to 1/2000, f 5.6 to f 8, ISO 1100 to 8000, no EC or filters. Handheld and cropped minimally and compositionally.
Wilber-Jean demanded to be included in this set. We rescued her a few years ago. A sad case of neglect based on Wilber's propensity to bite. She bit me! The feather plucking has not stopped completely. We do our best but this is a very difficult bird. She wants out of the cage; she then starts destroying furniture and biting whatever comes near. She terrorized our poor rescued Chihuahua! Talks up a storm, though!
Downloads are kewl!
Enjoy!
A pair of Varied Thrushes hang around our barnyard area. The female is somewhat less brightly colored and is a more retiring bird. I think #4,6,7 are images off a female Varied Thrush. Our male has a "shield" of orange in his dark purple chest band.
Used both my D500 and D850 for these shots taken from 4-1 to 4-3-2021. Once I set my camera down and started work again, the thrushes and doves and robins would fly in and look for food. As soon as I went for the camera, they would all fly off! Taking long breaks sitting quietly worked to allow the birds to gain enough trust to land and forage. And for me to get some shots!
Camera setting varied according to the needs of the exposure-1/500 to 1/2000, f 5.6 to f 8, ISO 1100 to 8000, no EC or filters. Handheld and cropped minimally and compositionally.
Wilber-Jean demanded to be included in this set. We rescued her a few years ago. A sad case of neglect based on Wilber's propensity to bite. She bit me! The feather plucking has not stopped completely. We do our best but this is a very difficult bird. She wants out of the cage; she then starts destroying furniture and biting whatever comes near. She terrorized our poor rescued Chihuahua! Talks up a storm, though!
Downloads are kewl!
Enjoy!
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#8 Wilber-Jean
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Apr 6, 2021 16:38:43 #
Apr 6, 2021 16:47:02 #
Apr 6, 2021 17:11:15 #
These thrushes are beautiful and you did an excellent job on them. As for Wilbur-Jean, Gray’s are very intelligent and sometimes temperamental birds. Living with a big bird can be quite a challenge but they are really special and it is rewarding.
Apr 6, 2021 17:46:54 #
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Apr 6, 2021 17:52:32 #
Cwilson341 wrote:
These thrushes are beautiful and you did an excellent job on them. As for Wilbur-Jean, Gray’s are very intelligent and sometimes temperamental birds. Living with a big bird can be quite a challenge but they are really special and it is rewarding.
Thanx for viewing! Yes it can be rewarding. We are greeted upon arrival home by Wilber. She has many contextually relevant comments to make from time to time. We have other parrots; the environment seems to help her as her feather plucking has slowed down. She is over 45 humans years old! She luvs my wife, hates me! Come to find that the folks we got her from that Wilber hates men and bites them at every opportunity!
Apr 6, 2021 18:19:48 #
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Apr 6, 2021 18:30:33 #
quixdraw wrote:
Excellent, and yet again a new one to me. Thanks!
At your service, sir!
Apr 6, 2021 18:33:01 #
Hal81 wrote:
Very well captured.
Thanx for the kind words and for viewing!
Apr 6, 2021 19:09:53 #
An unusual (to me) bird, very well captured, Tim! And, of course, a shout out to Wilber-Jean.
Apr 6, 2021 22:53:34 #
UTMike wrote:
An unusual (to me) bird, very well captured, Tim! And, of course, a shout out to Wilber-Jean.
Thanx! Strange bird to me until the Winter of 2019-19. One came to our emergency snow time feeder. Wilber-Jean says Ha lol ooo!
Apr 7, 2021 05:20:28 #
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