Black-capped Chickadee

Gallery: AvianPosted December 9, 2016140 views5 comments

We actually had some sunny (if cold) weather a couple of days ago and I had a nice session in my blind. I was particularly fond of this one. It looks to me as if this Chickadee had been into a spider web shortly before it came in for sunflower seeds.

7DII, Sigma 150-600 C @ 562 mm, Jobu gimbal mounted to blind window, f/6.3, 1/2500, iso 800, aperture priority, pattern metering, -2/3 EV. Processed in LR5 & CS6. Cropped to 12.6 MP before resizing. Taken at 9:29 AM on December 7th (the sun makes it over the trees about 9:00 this time of year).

Comments and criticisms are always appreciated.

Thanks,

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Genny K. on December 10, 2016 at 1:35 AM

That is a great image of an adorable lil' bird. Chickadees are my favorite bird, and I get pretty protective of them in the winter up here.
The large image is really nice; you can each individual feather on the side. And yes, it does look like it's got a bit of spider web on it! This captures that feeling that it just landed, and it ready to take off again.
This one appears to have a bit of buff color on it; I don't recall seeing that on any of ours up here....guess I'll have to look harder.

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Comment posted by Jerry Marella on December 10, 2016 at 4:06 PM

Nice photo of this little guy, and a nice background also, Dennis. I miss these guys. I stopped feeding in Sept. since we're going to be gone all winter. I wanted to give all the birds some time to find other feeding stations. It took about three weeks before it was very quiet around here.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on December 10, 2016 at 7:03 PM

Excellent lighting, exposure and bg Dennis. The perch is a little big for this species, considering it's a feeder setup I would try for a more attractive perch. devil

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on December 10, 2016 at 8:58 PM

Really tight detail, Dennis, and a great look at the "ready for flight" little guy. You might consider cropping a bit from the bottom to lessen the effect of the large perch.

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on December 11, 2016 at 5:24 AM

Sweet attentive pose you captured of this handsome little guy Dennis. Sharp details, great background.

A Beauty!

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