"There may be something down at Big John's Pond!" one of the wildlife warden's had remarked when arriving on 17'th of august at the Jamacia Bay Wildlife Refuge in New York.
Later in the day, mid-afternoon in fact, I visited the place and was rewarded with a brief visitation from a Willow Flycatcher.
Thanks to the birder who saw it and helped me identify it.
Amano
Canon 7D
1/200'th @ f7.3
500mm with 1.4, tripod mounted
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Last edited by Amano Samarpan; 09-15-2010 at 11:27 AM.
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Amano, I'm glad you were able to capture this. I like the BG colors. As presented I might take off the bottom portion of the image. It's a large perch for this size bird but sometimes we have to take what we can get:)
peter this is really nice image and i wish for more room as the big thick trunk making it heavy than the bird on close crop and giving it freedom of space arround would loose its weightage i suppose. let others point on this if what i am thinking is true.
Nice BG and EXP. Looks like the bird's eye is getting lost a bit in shadows because of the direction of the lighting. If possible, I would have waited for the bird to turn its head several degrees to its right to illuminate the face.
Have a shot of the bird looking right .. but it appears a little gawkish. Was not able to move my position.
Yes, probably a juvenile Eastern Phoebe ... not a bird I know though.
Regards
Amano
Have checked out the ID of this bird and juvenile Eastern Phoebe it almost certainly is!
Apart from the birdwatcher I met at Big John's Pond who helped identify it, the Brooklyn Bird Club and the Jamaica WIldlife Refuge both list this bird as present during this time (august). The Brooklyn Bird Club do not mention the possibility of Eastern Phoebe.
So my 3 sources were misleading .. my thanks to Brian for the correction.
Willow Flycatcher
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