Herring Gull w/ Quill

Gallery: AvianPosted May 13, 2011107 views4 comments

Olympus E-3, 300mm w/ 1.4TC, tripod
f6.3, 1/640, ISO100

A Herring Gull with a problem: a porcupine quill through his mandible, probably picked up on a road-killed quill pig. Ouch.

Cropped to vertical. Slight adjustment to levels. Selective sharpening to bird.

C & C, please. Thanks for looking.

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on May 13, 2011 at 1:35 PM

I thought it was a pinfeather? Nice job on the exposure. Sharon

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Comment posted by Scott Frye on May 13, 2011 at 10:33 PM

Nice capture to get the quill -- gotta be a hungry gull to go after that meat

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on May 14, 2011 at 1:29 PM

I don't think I would have been able to identify the quill Jim...good job on that for certain. Nice techs on tis one and unique capture.

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Comment posted by May Haga on May 15, 2011 at 8:56 AM

Interesting subject Jim. Makes you wonder how these things happen. Nice job on the whites.
May

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