Portuguese photos (with a strange bird)
Focus
Owen Rees
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>Does anybody know what bird that is?
The one with the caption "No idea what kind of bird this is. Never seen
one like it before." is a goldfinch.
See http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/g/goldfinch/index.asp
for further details.
In my experience, goldfinches do not sit still for very long and I have
found it quite difficult to get a good photo of a goldfinch, so well
done for getting those pictures.
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Focus
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Thanks.
Very lucky shot. I was in the kitchen when I saw this little guy in the
back. I went to the bedroom to get the camera and shot him through the
venetian blinds. He stayed for the whole show. Too bad I don't have a long
zoom yet.
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Savageduck
Agreed, Goldfinch.
Over here, waaay West of you in California the European variety is not
found. We have the American Goldfinch
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Goldfinch.html
which does not have the red facial coloring.
Nice capture.
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Regards,
Savageduck
Focus
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Thanks.
I lived in Marina del Rey for 1 year. One block from Venice Beach and across
the street from The Cheesecake Factory, where they served fantastic food!
Back in '85.
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Noons
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> Does anybody know what bird that is?
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Pardal
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"Noons" <wizo...@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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Definitely not a sparrow...
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Jeff R.
You're excused.
Now - do you know what type of bird it is?
Noons
feathered?
Pd
> Jeff R. wrote,on my timestamp of 2/04/2009 9:54 AM:
> > Noons wrote:
> >> Focus wrote,on my timestamp of 1/04/2009 8:34 AM:
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> >>> Does anybody know what bird that is?
Goldfinch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Goldfinch
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frank
Interesting. I can see now why all the Europeans go wild over our
American Goldfinches which are gold and black. Love finch food. OK,
niger seed. Small seed, size of pencil lead. Usually put out in bird
feeders in mesh bags.
When I was in Missouri, some birders had a contest to see how many
they could attract. Dozens of feeders were put up in the yard, I think
nearly 200 was the number they decided to quit counting.
Bird seed store enjoyed selling the feeders and the seed.
Fun stuff bird photography. Best bet is a 400mm lens. You can use
other lengths, but that's easiest as they do seem to move once they
know their being photographed.
C J Campbell
The do move, but they come back in about 10 minutes. They have favorite
perches, so you can count on a finch returning within an inch or two of
the same spot on the same twig time after time. Makes it easy to
pre-focus and have everything ready. We get gold finches here, as well
as pine siskins. I use a finch feeder, but I rarely photograph the
finches using it, preferring to get them on their nearby perches. I
don't like seeing the feeder in my pictures.
I get bald eagles, too, but I don't feed them. :-) Neither do I
photograph them much, despite how spectacular they are as birds.
Somehow a picture of a bald eagle squatting on a gravel beach is a
singularly unattractive picture, especially if it is eating some rotten
thing that washed up a few days before. Bleah.
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Twibil
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> Does anybody know what bird that is?
A European Swallow.
But where's it's coconut?
~Pete