Northern Flicker

Gallery: AvianPosted March 17, 201386 views4 comments

I got lucky and caught this northern flicker in flight. There was enough back lighting to expose the goldern underwings of this beautiful bird. This was captured with a canon 1D markIV and canon 400mm 5.6 L lens hand held. These guys are often very hard to approach. This was taken at f 56 at 500 ISO in aperature priority mode.

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Comment posted by Gary Gulash on March 18, 2013 at 2:12 AM

Well, could be luck, or someone standing in the right place with the perfect lens/camera combination, a steady hand and expert settings. You're right just luck..

Hey it looks good, love the yellow underwing. A larger view is always nice to see. It appears he is ascending, so I would have probably given him a bit more room above and less below, maybe more centered as well.

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Comment posted by Danny on March 18, 2013 at 2:54 AM

Aww, love the colours and markings in this, F/56.......... are you sure

Stunning wing display Mike.

All the best Mike, nice inflight shot.

Danny.

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on March 18, 2013 at 12:22 PM

You took well advantage of the opportunity you were offered - well done ! Cheers, Hans

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Comment posted by Jim Hackley on March 18, 2013 at 1:34 PM

Interesting to see all the yellow under the wings, nice job reacting to this.

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