Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]*Jaw dropped, pick it back up* You are good. Very good. I do have a nitpick, the California Towhee needs the feet, but man... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:55 AM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > Realizing I had very few good photos of the birds literally in my back > yard, I spent a few hours last weekend sitting by my feeding station. ?Five > species of sparrows (family Emberizidae) visited: > > Dark-eyed Junco, Oregon form: > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/emberizidae/doju03.html > > Spotted Towhee, formerly thought to be conspecific with the Eastern Towhee: > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/emberizidae/spto05.html > > White-crowned Sparrow: > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/emberizidae/wcsp05.html > > Golden-crowned Sparrow: > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/bpy2010/L1260316.html > > California Towhee: > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/bpy2010/L1260286.html > > These sparrows all prefer dense brush so getting a clear view was a bit > difficult. ?They also move very quickly so I ended up with numerous > (deleted) photos of backs of heads and departing tailfeathers. ?Those of > you who are familiar with horses might recognize some of the 'dirt clods' > in the Spotted Towhee photo. > > My previous attempts at photographing these backyard birds involved a blind > with unsatisfactory results, so this time I simply sat quietly and waited > for the birds to learn that I wasn't about to eat them. > > technical stuff: Leica R8 with DMR, 560mm f/6.8 Telyt-R with UET-R > extension tube, tripod. ?All comments welcome. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web LIVE ? Free email based on Microsoft? Exchange technology - > http://link.mail2web.com/LIVE > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963