White-eyed Vireo

Gallery: AvianPosted March 26, 2011104 views9 comments

Shot this little one about an hour ago.

Interesting fact: The only fossil record in North America for the entire family Vireonidae is a wing bone of a White-eyed Vireo from the late Pleistocene of Florida, from approximately 400,000 years ago.
F/6.3, 1/1000th, ISO 500, 1D M3, 300mm f/2.8 + 1.4x & natural light.
About 72% of full frame.

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Hali Sowle on March 26, 2011 at 2:30 PM

Great image Howard, the pose and the perch are great, the background greens are also a nice compliment to the yellow green of the vireo. If I could have anything changed it would be that whiteness from another branch coming up vertically behind the bird, it's a bit distracting if it could be a bit darker it wouldn't pull my eye so much.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on March 26, 2011 at 3:34 PM

Neat bird and I like the cobwebs on the perch here Howard. I think your comp works pretty well here but I could also see cropping some from the bottom and going with a squarish crop here to make the bird bigger in the frame.

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Comment posted by Wayne Willison on March 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM

Good detail and textures. The bird colors stand out nicely from that creamy background.

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Comment posted by Brian Gatlin on March 26, 2011 at 6:09 PM

Nice, Howard. I like the comp here--works very well with the branches, and I like the spider webs too.. I would think about darkening the branches some. Very interesting about the vireo fossil. Here we have exceptional faunal remains (including lots of birds) in our caves from the end of the Pleistocene, but as you say, no vireos (of course, vireos probably don't spend a lot of time in caves, so I guess unless a predator took one there, it wouldn't be the place to look.

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Comment posted by Steve Balke on March 26, 2011 at 6:29 PM

Nice capture, Howard: this bird is sure giving us the eye. Fine colors: bird and bg. I too would like to see the bird larger in the frame and the branches (especially the large foreground branch) darkened a bit.

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on March 26, 2011 at 7:55 PM

I like this as posted and find it very natural in color and tone.

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Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on March 27, 2011 at 12:55 PM

I love these little guys and they are arriving here as well a little at a time. Great pose and comp. They sure do move around alot!

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Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on March 27, 2011 at 2:52 PM

A very natural looking comp Howard. Love the light and the great look at this bird's white eye. In the larger version the bird is just shy of tack sharp, but works well none the less. Nice capture of a cool bird.

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on March 28, 2011 at 5:16 PM

Nice one Howard, I like the overall composition, good eye contact and the detail looks good on the larger version (along with the spider webs). Well done.

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