Pygmy Nuthatch

Gallery: AvianPosted December 25, 2014149 views9 comments

I read up bit on these birds on the Cornell bird website. These frenetic little guys weigh 10 grams, are 10 cm long from tip of beak to tip of tail and consume 10 calories a day, usually in insects. Here's one as it hopped along a branch.
D4, 500 mm lens at f/11, 1/1600, Auto ISO at 1000 and -2/3EC. This is about 70% of the original. Richard

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Jerry Austin on December 25, 2014 at 4:34 PM

One cute bird. I might try cropping a bit more from the bottom to remove more of the OOF branch. Well done.

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Comment posted by Patrick O'Healy on December 25, 2014 at 5:39 PM

Richard,
Very nice catch. It is a lovely little bird and I like the perch and the background. I wonder if doging around its eye might help the eye stand out.

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Comment posted by Jefferson Silva on December 25, 2014 at 5:55 PM

Cute bird, great image.
Nice perch and bg. Pretty sharp image.

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Comment posted by Richard Sandor on December 25, 2014 at 6:13 PM

Thanks guys for the comments and suggestions which are good. Should have looked more closely at the eye. It's mostly OK on my screen, but not so in the post. Here's a version with the eye dodged and a bit of the bottom of the frame cropped. Richard

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Comment posted by Peter Cross on December 25, 2014 at 9:51 PM

Cute little bird. Has dimunitive written all over it. Sharp focus over the entire bird is really nice and helps get a good view of it. Colors look good, although this bird is on my bucket list they just seem natural to me. BG is excellent and really helps show off the bird and doesn't attract any attention. Nice job.

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on December 26, 2014 at 6:15 AM

Very nice capture of this handsome little nuthatch Richard. Wonderful details, nice background and a great curvy perch.

Sweet One

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Comment posted by Scott Frye on December 26, 2014 at 10:42 PM

Like the second post better because you lost the oof foreground branch --

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Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on December 27, 2014 at 1:12 AM

The re-post is very good, Richard. Interesting to see a Pygmy looking a little wet and rough; usually they are sleek.

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on December 31, 2014 at 10:49 AM

Hi Richard

Beautifully captured. with excellent detail and color rendition. the repost with the crop is even better

Albert Darmo
Canada

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