Canon 40D, 100-400L, EV Metering
1/1600, f/7.1, ISO 400, +.33EV
I watched and pfotographed this GBH break sticks and drop them below for nesting for quite a while. Quite a sight to see and witness. Hope I can find their nests later. :)
GBH Breaks Sticks for Nesting
Canon 40D, 100-400L, EV Metering
1/1600, f/7.1, ISO 400, +.33EV
I watched and pfotographed this GBH break sticks and drop them below for nesting for quite a while. Quite a sight to see and witness. Hope I can find their nests later. :)
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Neat behavior. Lighting looks awfully harsh and the stick across the neck is distracting and I think the image lines would flow much better without it. there is some kind of blob in the lr corner. It must be nice to be able to watch these guys work.
Interesting behavior captured. The light looks a bit harsh and a lower angle would have made it even better. Thanks for sharing!
Brutal light but you did as well as possible. Bad branches noted by Carole. You say that the bird was dropping the branches: were they falling to the ground???
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Thanks for the comments and suggestions of this image showing birds in habitat. I struggled whether to leave this full bird in or crop some of the body for closer views. I will try tomorrow to show the bird dropping a branch. This bird was about 25-30 feet up and there were some brush around the base of this dead tree so I do not know if there was a clearing around the base or not. Too snaky to get closer to inspect. When I first saw this there were two GBH's there but one flew off leaving this one behind to do the work. It actually broke off these branches. I will have to read to see when their breeding season is. I thought of you Arthur and said I wounder what you would do here taking these images. I hope before I am gone, to be thinking on the same page as you for instances such as this. Alas I said to myself, Bill just take the images and worry about all the technicals later. Thanks.
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In that light I would either have tried lots of flash, say +1, or went back for a nap. As for breaking and dropping the branches, I am not sure that he was doing that on purpose.... When they get a stick that they like they bring it to the nest...
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