Birds and Water Fowl

[21limited]

Boreal Chickadee. Rare in our area.
Bird-Boreal-Chickadee by Norm Head, on Flickr

 

[Jeff15]

Unusual Duck

 

[21limited]

Cliff Swallows gathering mud for nest building. Niagara Falls Ontario
NF-birds-2 by Norm Head, on Flickr

 

[21limited]

Red Breasted Nuthatch feeding on pine nuts (from pine cones). Unlike my feeder images, this is a compeltely wild bird, out on a point in a small lake, away from people and civilization.
Nuthatch series 1-DS by Norm Head, on Flickr

Nuthatch series 2-DS by Norm Head, on Flickr

Nuthatch series 3-DS by Norm Head, on Flickr

Nuthatch series 4-DS by Norm Head, on Flickr

Nuthatch series 5-DS by Norm Head, on Flickr

Nuthatch series 6-DS by Norm Head, on Flickr

Nuthatch series 7-DS by Norm Head, on Flickr

 

[21limited]

From Niagara Falls...
NF-birds-1 by Norm Head, on Flickr

 

[misterjones]

 

[misterjones]

 

[misterjones]

Female red winged blackbird.

... Who knew they weren't actually black???

 

[Digger...]

... Who knew they weren't actually black???

Nor red winged... ah so it's just the males that have the red flash's. Always the males that are more colourful hey.

 

[Jeff15]

Tufted Duck

 

[21limited]

Rough Winged Swallow - Niagara Falls

My old Pentax A-400 5.6
2013-06-01-Rough-winged-Swallow by Norm Head, on Flickr

 

[Underdog]

Nor red winged... ah so it's just the males that have the red flash's. Always the males that are more colourful hey.

I just learned that the male Black Chinned Hummingbird has a black hood and the female doesn't.
I'd never seen or noticed the male before a couple weeks ago. I see females all the time.
I never even knew what they were called.
I didn't even know there was a Green Jay!
But Cardinals, it's common knowledge.
By the way, a friend gave me some seed so I told her I'd take a picture of one of the seeds if I could find a decent setting for it.

 

[Jeff15]

European Robin

 

[21limited]

Tree Swallow
2024-05-15-RP-Tree-Swallow by Norm Head, on Flickr

 

[Digger...]

I just learned that the male Black Chinned Hummingbird has a black hood and the female doesn't.
I'd never seen or noticed the male before a couple weeks ago. I see females all the time.
I never even knew what they were called.
I didn't even know there was a Green Jay!
But Cardinals, it's common knowledge.
By the way, a friend gave me some seed so I told her I'd take a picture of one of the seeds if I could find a decent setting for it.


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Did you put the hummingbird feeder back out?

Increase your shutter speed, say 400 minimum for a still subject and that'll help with camera shake/motion blur at telephoto distances. Depending on ones own personal hand shake.

The hummingbird, bump that up to 2000, 2500.

Ps. The Green Jay rocks!