Richard Stern
04-01-2010, 04:41 PM
At least around here, there is almost constant singing from this species at the moment, and it's certainly very common. Here's a recent one in the back yard, perched on a perch in the rain but still singing! I should add that one person's common is another person's rare, and e.g. if a Heerman's or Glaucous-winged gull ever showed up in Nova Scotia, many birders would drop everything and rush to "twitch" a Provincial first.
Taken recently with my "old" spare D70S while my D300 was away being repaired.
Lens: 300.0 mm f/4.0 AF-S + 1.4x TC
Focal Length: 420.0mm (35mm equivalent: 630mm)
Aperture: f/6.3
Exposure Time: 0.0040 s (1/250)
ISO equiv: 1000
Exposure Bias: -0.33
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)
White Balance: Auto
Crop, sharpen and Noise Ninja applied.
Self-crit --- I wish the perch didn't obscure half the tail.
Richard
Taken recently with my "old" spare D70S while my D300 was away being repaired.
Lens: 300.0 mm f/4.0 AF-S + 1.4x TC
Focal Length: 420.0mm (35mm equivalent: 630mm)
Aperture: f/6.3
Exposure Time: 0.0040 s (1/250)
ISO equiv: 1000
Exposure Bias: -0.33
Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: aperture priority (semi-auto)
White Balance: Auto
Crop, sharpen and Noise Ninja applied.
Self-crit --- I wish the perch didn't obscure half the tail.
Richard