Young Black Phoebe With Addition
Dec 30, 2021 22:18:49 #
With the rain I am going over pictures I took in the last few months to see what I overlooked. This young (all the brown that will turn black later) Black Phoebe appeared in my yard several times around the end of October and start of November with some kind of fiber/line caught in its feathers (here seen on Oct 31). The same young bird has been coming back to look for insects around the pool but some where it managed to get rid of the line.
It is perched on the cut off pole that was part of the old pool slide. When the new slide was put up at the other end of the pool I cut off and cut up for disposal the old fiberglass slide and then my knee started acting up so I couldn't get down to chip the legs or the mount for the ladder out of the concrete of the pool deck. (Well I could get down, but not back up.) Then birds started using the poles and the ladder for perches so I left them. The wife has started hinting that after two years I should either chip them out or pay someone to do it. It has been on my "to do" list, honest!
Canon 90D, Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 600, 1/1000 @ f/6.3, ISO-1600
from a tripod with High Speed Sync Fill Flash at about 30 feet. That f/6.3 produces a very shallow DOF so the yard, bird feeder & water dish and wall behind it are just nice soft pastel blurs.
I just got some updates to Topaz Denoise and Sharpen AI so I ran the image though those and tweaked the colors just a bit towards warm.
Just saw the little guy amide a mob of finches and sparrows feeding during a light spell in the rain. By the time I slowly slid the glass door open for a clear shot he left.
It is perched on the cut off pole that was part of the old pool slide. When the new slide was put up at the other end of the pool I cut off and cut up for disposal the old fiberglass slide and then my knee started acting up so I couldn't get down to chip the legs or the mount for the ladder out of the concrete of the pool deck. (Well I could get down, but not back up.) Then birds started using the poles and the ladder for perches so I left them. The wife has started hinting that after two years I should either chip them out or pay someone to do it. It has been on my "to do" list, honest!
Canon 90D, Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 600, 1/1000 @ f/6.3, ISO-1600
from a tripod with High Speed Sync Fill Flash at about 30 feet. That f/6.3 produces a very shallow DOF so the yard, bird feeder & water dish and wall behind it are just nice soft pastel blurs.
I just got some updates to Topaz Denoise and Sharpen AI so I ran the image though those and tweaked the colors just a bit towards warm.
Just saw the little guy amide a mob of finches and sparrows feeding during a light spell in the rain. By the time I slowly slid the glass door open for a clear shot he left.
Dec 30, 2021 22:36:11 #
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Dec 31, 2021 00:38:19 #
IDguy wrote:
Looks like a dog hair. I know dog hair. 🤗
OK
Now, how in hell does an insect eating bird that hunts around water get a long dog hair around its neck???
Dec 31, 2021 05:27:04 #
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Dec 31, 2021 09:56:48 #
IDguy
Loc: Idaho
robertjerl wrote:
OK
Now, how in hell does an insect eating bird that hunts around water get a long dog hair around its neck???
Now, how in hell does an insect eating bird that hunts around water get a long dog hair around its neck???
When I brush my dog on the deck huge quantities of dog hair take to the air. Birds love it for their nests.
Dec 31, 2021 15:58:11 #
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Dec 31, 2021 16:05:06 #
robertjerl wrote:
wrong click and this site doesn't do "delete" entry - they need to add that feature, facebook has it.
Dec 31, 2021 16:08:07 #
IDguy wrote:
When I brush my dog on the deck huge quantities of dog hair take to the air. Birds love it for their nests.
I collect the "felt" that accumulates on the intake of my portable AC/Heater in the family room and with Covid I have been letting my hair grow until it bugs me then my wife trims it. I have a Ziploc of each to put out after New Years. Our So Cal birds think it is Spring starting in late Dec and early Jan. They can't read a calendar, or more likely being Southern Californians they just don't care about calendars and go by the temperatures.
Jan 4, 2022 06:03:32 #
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