Red-Winged Blackbird

Gallery: AvianPosted April 27, 2013159 views11 comments

While I went to Ridgefield in search of the Yellow-Headed Blackbirds, I wasn't about to pass up their cousins. This one gave me a very nice pose at reasonable range.

7D, 500mm f4 ISL + 1.4TC, bean bag, f8, 1/250, iso 500, Av mode with no compensation. Processed in CS6. Cropped to 9.1MP. While the red in the epaulets looks saturated, the histogram is showing it's a little under. Taken at 7:20 am on April 24th at Ridgefield NWR.

Your comments and criticisms are very much appreciated.

Thanks for looking,

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by Kirk Greene on April 27, 2013 at 10:49 PM

This image captures the essence of these birds and all of their territorial antics. I can almost hear the "conk-a-reeeee".

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Comment posted by Barb Pflaum on April 27, 2013 at 10:51 PM

Beautiful image! Wonderful pose. Excellent detail and color. Very nice bg.

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Comment posted by James Allen on April 27, 2013 at 11:24 PM

The reds look great on my monitor.

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Comment posted by Claude Dagenais on April 28, 2013 at 6:22 AM

A great shot of this birds display, very sharp and the exposure on this blackbird is great. Super.!

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on April 28, 2013 at 8:30 AM

Great behavioral action Dennis!
Hope to get a shot of this species half as nice one fine day

Well done

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Comment posted by Joana Roncero on April 28, 2013 at 2:28 PM

Very nice bird, pose and background. It is a beautiful picture.

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Comment posted by Martin Dunn on April 28, 2013 at 2:59 PM

Neatly captured Dennis. The textures in the black breast plumage are wonderful. Background works really well too.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on April 28, 2013 at 3:22 PM

Classic Red-winged singing pose Dennis. Beautiful BG really makes it pop.

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Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on April 29, 2013 at 11:25 AM

Very nice RWBB image! Great pose and bg. Nicely exposed and captured! Sharon

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Comment posted by KC Choo on April 29, 2013 at 1:09 PM

A classic pose and beautifully captured!

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Comment posted by May Haga on April 30, 2013 at 9:25 AM

Wonderful capture Dennis. Excellent feather detail. The lovely uncluttered background allows all our attention to be focused on the bird.
May

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