I've been on the coast for the past 2 weeks or so. Mostly Ive been surfing and relaxing. But I did manage to get out a few times for photography. One day I found this guy perched up on a branch along the beach. It sure was nice to shoot in good light for a change.
One more day of surf and then its back into the forest...
Camera Model: Canon EOS 50D
Shutter speed: 1/400 sec
Aperture: 9
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: +1/3
Flash: Off
ISO: 200
Focal length: 500mm + 1.4x
P.S. I'll be posting new images, travel journals and a new video blog to my site later today...
I am a fanatic of nightjars and I love thsi superb image Glenn but I think that it is not a Caprimulgus anthonyi because the tail is shorter than the primaries and is forked like in the case of the genus Chordeiles. Anthonyi´s nightjars has a longer tail, square shaped, and shorter primaries than this guy. Species of the genus Caprimulgus have a more prominet bristles than species of the genus Chordeiles. If this image is from Andes´s western slope is probably a Chordeiles acutipennis aequatorialis.
Superb BG by the way :-)
Last edited by Juan Aragonés; 04-21-2009 at 12:54 PM.
Love the feel of this capture with the lazy eye and the amazing light and BG. I have to agree on removing the BG branches. I think doing so would truly accentuate this amazing which I have never even heard of until this picture. Thank you for sharing.
Love the setting and bird. I am against the OOF branches above too, but my eyes tell me they somehow help frame the bird better, though being OOF is a little distracting. A wonderful and secretive bird, at least in my neck o' the woods. Even the experts hardly find them.
On another note, I believe the genus name of Caprimulgus means goat sucker as these were associated with being like vampires of the night feasting on goats' blood. :) Far from the truth.
Anthony's Nightjar (Ecuador)
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