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Photo posted by David Schoen in the Avian gallery on 05/27/18 at 1:10 pm EST
Registered on 11/06/06, 1213 Posts, 4587 Comments
Post last edited by David Schoen on 05/27/18 at 1:10 pm EST
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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on 05/27/18 at 1:26 pm EST
Registered on 11/24/03, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments
Nice! You caught both at a great angle to show this behavior. None of our little ones have appeared yet here.
The lichen adds a lot. Looks like pretty bright light that you handled well.
Sandy
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Sandy Richards-Brown, NPN #0367
Brookings, Oregon (summer/fall) and Sedona, Arizona (winter/spring)
PNW and RMNP Regional Member
NATURE'S MAJESTY IMAGING
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"All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful: The Lord God made them all.
Each little flower that opens, Each little bird that sings, He made their glowing colors, He made their tiny wings."
- Cecil F. Alexander, Hymns for Little Children, 1848, Ireland |
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Comment posted by Shirley Freeman on 05/27/18 at 1:51 pm EST
Registered on 05/27/17, 77 Posts, 844 Comments
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This is a really great shot, David. Perfect timing to catch the moment. The perch with the lichen really adds to the shot. I think I need to try fill flash on my shots of birds just outside my window with the wireless transmitter. I like the lighting you get on these, looks natural, and you are getting great detail. After the storms move through in the coming days though, not wanting to ruin a good flash!
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Shirley Freeman
Saint Pauls, North Carolina
www.freemansphotos.com
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." Ansel Adams |
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Comment posted by Charles Gangas on 05/27/18 at 3:52 pm EST
Registered on 08/12/09, 544 Posts, 2414 Comments
Very nice feeding behavior David, and the perch and the background is very flattering to the birds. I think you could have gotten away with a little less flash here- something like -1.3 or -1.7FEC as I think the whites and bright yellows of the adult are a bit bright in the LP. 
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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on 05/27/18 at 5:36 pm EST
Registered on 07/24/06, 2741 Posts, 12349 Comments
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Great detail and interesting feeding action. I like this as is, but an alternative would be to crop from the right to jus past the yellow lichen.
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Phil Hodgkins
Savannah, Georgia
NPN # 1998
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“The task is...not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”
― Erwin Schrödinger
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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on 05/27/18 at 9:19 pm EST
Registered on 01/28/08, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments
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Hi David. It's still too early for Goldfinch babies. This is a male feeding a female as part of courtship behavior. Most of ours haven't gotten that far in the game yet. Since they're seed eaters, they have to wait a bit longer for the food supply to get to the point of supplying youngsters. Nice poses in this image and one of your beautiful perches.
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Comment posted by Debapratim Saha on 05/27/18 at 11:46 pm EST
Registered on 02/04/18, 26 Posts, 101 Comments
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A beautiful feeding interaction captured in a lovely setting, an amazing shot David!
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