I spent a great half an hour with this fellow in a bog on Campobello Island, New Brunswick. I was collecting data for our breeding bird atlas, and called for this and other species. Several of these male Common Yellowthroats came out of the woodwork and were very interested in this "new male" who suddenly showed up. I then just watched this one as he sung and fed amongst the cobweb-draped shrubs. The insect life was prodigious so there is no shortage of food for species like this in places like bogs.
I cropped a little and removed a very OOF branch below the belly of the bird. The white "mess" on the head is cobwebs and some small white feathers, so of course I would not remove something like this- you can see a couple of cobweb strands below the left foot of the bird. The bird was pretty near my closest focus so I had no hope of getting all the bird in focus at F7.1 and I'm not sure an adequate f-stop would have been feasible given the light and the way these guys jump around (necessitating as fast a SS as possible).
Date: 10 June, 2010, Time: 10:42h
Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Lens: EF500mm f/4L IS USM +1.4x @ 700 mm
Program: Aperture Priority
ISO 640, 1/640s, f/7.1
Exp. comp.: +0.3
Flash: no flash,
Last edited by John Chardine; 06-12-2010 at 04:26 AM.
Reason: typo
Thanks Alan. Here's a recrop but I've only taken some off the right because I didn't want to crop to or beyond the left side of the branch that disappears TL. Is this more or less what you were thinking about?
Last edited by John Chardine; 06-12-2010 at 04:27 AM.
Reason: another typo; I really should have taken a typing course
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