Today I busted out the big lens. Don't miss the gif at the end!
It's been a while since I carried my Nikon D750 and Tamron 15-600 lens around. That camera and lens combo is just too heavy for me these days, but today I took my big rig to the park for some bird shots. It sure does get me close to the birds and animals!
The first photo shows a male fledgeling Barred Owl. It flew over my head and perched on a branch looking down at me. After a while, it began to dance from foot to foot crying out for its mother to bring food. The sound it made was almost like a hissing noise. The poor little dear was starving! Check out the animated gif near the end of the post.
The baby Great Blue Herons are just now learning to fly. They stand on the treetops flapping their wings and eventually take their first very short flights. In the next photo, a baby heron makes the 10-foot flight from one treetop to the next.
Next, I've got a common Rock Pigeon for you, captured in-flight.
Here's the poor starving Barred Owl, impatiently waiting for breakfast.
Next we see the Mom ripping a small black bird to pieces to feed her babies. Perhaps it was a crow, I couldn't tell.
And finally, Mom makes a delivery and junior gets his meal!
I've been thinking seriously about selling my DSLR gear because of the weight, but I think after today I will hang onto it a little longer. Thanks for taking a look!
These photos are for #featheredfriday hosted by @melinda010100
I may... what a cute little🦉 owl 💕
Yeah, the babies are so cute. There are three of them now... two female and one male.
How fun to see a #featheredfriday post from you, my friend! You are a master of bird photography, and you have some superior equipment to get the job done. That little dancing owl gif is too cute!
Thank you, Melinda! I'm happy to see FeatheredFriday is going strong!
It's so good to see you back, Keith! I've missed you! I love the owl shots. It's nice that they came out during the day so you could get them. Wonderful bird pictures all around!
Awww.. thank you very much @goat-girlz!
Congratulations on the Curie, Keith!! Well deserved!
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This flagging bullshit sure takes the joy out of it. Why the hell am I being flagged?
Sadly, someone is a bit upset at rules enforcement for PALnet and is blanket downvoting anyone and everyone he can to try and harm it. Don't let it stop you. The entire PAL team is happy to have you here and back in general.
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Welcome back! Glad to see your photos again. Pictures accompanied by a good story ... or vice versa.
A perfect blog in my opinion ...
Hey @bluemoon, thanks very much, I'm happy you enjoyed my post :-)
With pleasure, double pleasure...to see you here again and for the beautiful blog!
You are back!!! I have missed you! I sure have missed your bird shots and no!! Don't get rid of your rig. It is amazing and you know how to really work it.
There are babies everywhere right now. I must say that I was surprised how really young they are when they fledge. I couldn't believe it felt like their feather weren't even dry!
Love the Gif!
Upped and I'll steem tomorrow
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Hi Denise, thanks for your comments and support!
On a different topic, I can see that some things haven't changed around here. Who are these ass-clowns flagging me for posting bird photos? What's this talk of bid-bot abuse, there are no bot votes on this post! WTF???
Beautiful photos @keithboone. I love owls.
Thanks a lot Angie! I think owls are awesome and there are always some owl experts hanging around in the park. When I show up, they will point out which trees the birds are in and tell me which is male or female. I don't think I'd have any shots at all without the help of the "owl ladies" in the park!
Don't sell it! Those photos are awesome! 😉
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Thank you! The idea to sell only makes sense if can get something smaller but equal quality. I have some ideas but I'm not sure how well it would work.
If you find small equipment that can provide photos like that camera, please let me know!
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It is possible that an Olympus EM-1 Mk ii with a Panasonic/Leica 100-400mm might do it. I've been investigating this concept for some time now.
Wow... some wonderful snaps and no wonder why those shots are special and why you cannot carry on with capturing some nice shots by looking at the gadget./instrument you are using for it.
You must have patience in abundance to get those click in a precise manner in the way you might had posted here, The baby owl looking into your eyes and the two flying birds in the air all seems to be worth for the time you had spent for.
Overall this looks a great post...
Thanks very much, @angelro, I happy you liked the photos! I enjoy bird photography and find it is well worth the time required.
Everyone have their own interest, wild life and bird photography is one of the difficult and it makes interesting to meet such people even though it is in this virtual world. Nice to meet you Sir, Looking forward to more such posts.
Cheers
So here's the plan...you rest up a bit, maybe some light workouts with weights for the arms/shoulders/back, then back out with that set-up. The photos are definitely worth it. And the editing? I challenge anyone to look at the gif without smiling! BTW, my favorite image was the commonest bird, the pigeon in flight.
Thanks very much @kunschj! I messed up my shoulder last year and eventually figured out it was the big lens that did it! I can only use it for an hour max. If I sold that gear it would be to replace it with something lighter.
You’re very welcome :-)
Wow, it’s beautiful!!!!
Thank you! Birds are very beautiful :-)
The owl..It can dancing ;D so cutee! Its been a while i miss many your feather post!
Thank you very much, glad you liked the dance! :-)
You're welcome
Beautiful owl photo....thanks for share .
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Thank you @curie, this is a lovely surprise! :-)
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Have a nice day!
Nope, I still see @swelker101's vote on my latest Pal Post! As soon as he removes that shit, and the block, and creates the public apology, I will come after all bloggers I see within any radius of @swelker101. That includes friends of friends! Swelker is the plague now!
You see that, my images are hidden, so anyone else is fair game to me! If they stopped I would stop! Everyone knows this, it has been going on for way too long, and they do it to a bunch of other people whom need it to stop. So they need to stop it for everybody, or STEEM is going to DIE off a slow and painful death! And I'm talking about STEEM the currency, not the account. That was not a threat, I know they would try to twist it into another fake death threat or something like they did to ban me from PAL! I could sue you all and win! You look like a smart guy, go act like a lawyer and read ups before you pipe in!
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Thanks very much, that's so cool :-)
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Wow @keithboone!
These are great shots and really timely too! How the heck did you do this? Must have taken a lot of time to wait and watch in order to catch these birds doing things this meaning for a shot.
Cool stuff yo👍🏼
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Thanks very much! The barred owls have lived in the park for years and whenever I go there I just have to look for one of the women I call the "owl ladies". There are a couple of them always there, and they are quite expert and knowledgable. When the see me coming they just point out whichever trees the owls are in... there's the mom, there are the two female chicks, over here is the male... Honestly, without them I would never get a single shot!
Cool! Then you had to stick around this time till they did all these narratable stuff? 🌚
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So to be 100% honest, the one shot of the mother owl tearing the crow apart was taken the previous day... it just made the story too long to explain all that. Come to think of it, that one shot was also made with my small camera - Olympus em-5 mkii.
The other shots including the heron and the pigeon were captured on the same day and I have dozens and dozens more. The owls don't move around a lot during the day, so if I get a clean line of sight I can basically shoot until the card fills up, or the big lens breaks my shoulder!
Here is the mom with the two baby girls. (So say the owl ladies... I have no idea how they can identify the sex of the birds.)
OK I get it. Cool stuff😁. Careful with the shoulders now😁. Don't sell the DSLR gear too😉
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That must be heavy! I have D750 and I usually use Tamron 24-70 and this is already heavy for me (I'm around 50 kg). When I go hiking I very often ask my husband to help me as I get exhausted after a while..
You took some amazing photos and I love that gif. It looks like this poor little starving fellow is dancing :) Adorable! But I'm glad that his mom took care of him :)
Thank you for sharing and have a good day!
Thank you very much! I have switched to an Olympus EM-5 MkII for everything except birds. It's so small and light and a lot of fun to use. The D750 has superior image quality and I love that camera but it's too heavy for me. I love photographing birds but I don't do it as often now so I am still thinking about solutions. The 5th image in this post was actually made with my Olympus. If you look at the images on a large screen it's easy to see how much better the Nikon is for pure image quality, detail, noise, low light... everything.
YESSS!!!!! I was wondering when I'd see one of your posts here!
Hey Shane! Yes, I'm checking out Palnet, I didn't know anything about it really. Great to "meet you" here :-)
Fantastic shots Keith !!
Thanks so much Barbara! :-)
With pleasure ! 😊
Thank you, @pixresteemer
I do not like owls!
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