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And not entirely to my surprise, Windhover is even in the Oxford English Dictionary!
Try this one - still messed with, but gives more of the shadows
Which, just cropped out of the camera’s RAW format (suffering from the classic dark bird against white sky issue with auto-ISO) was
Yes, there’s both buzzards and kites around here - very similar life-styles.
Thanks for continuing the story!
I think it fairly obvious that the first European settlers in North America were far from Ornithologists :)
As you’ve most likely already seen to find those links, Red-tailed hawks and (what I think of as) a Buzzard share a genus Buteo.
OK, that would be a danger to my wallet!
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And look well-nigh identical to the UK Magpie - though the Latin name is different.
A young one from yesterday for contrast:
No scolding that I noticed :)
Looking back at my old photos from various locations, that “not round pupil” thing in wood pigeons seems more often present than not. I wasn’t something I’d looked previously out for.
Really nice to get that angle - I’d guess you were half way up a mountain at the time.
You will be shocked to know even the mother walk through those bars.
Thanks - thought you’d have to have a huge pixel count otherwise.
Anyway, hoping to walk to a new spot when photoing birds, and not expecting it to flow off, is a mug’s game :)
I like the way you’ve shown the context in one photo, the bird in the other. Is that just digital zoom or two photos and an optical zoom?
The sparrow was just pure good luck, and a bit of a surprise when I reviewed the photo!
And I suppose to complete it, House Martins from the same group gathering the mud in the harbour
It is indeed a Canon, and using Canon’s DPP4 to correct the over-exposed whites using the RAW format of pictures. I really ought to research it properly, but I’m guessing that different colours (YGB) are reaching over-exposed to different degrees and getting capped. E.g. Blue is very over-exposed, Yellow is a bit over-exposed and Green is only barely over-exposed. Then when I try to bring them back to properly exposed “as one” with the histogram tool or brigtness slider, those caps and degrees are getting messed up, giving a colour balance in a manner that doesn’t reflect the original and I get a green tinge.
That, or pay more attention to whites in frame!
Thanks. What’s worse, is that I lost quite a few attempts to this problem today: white gulls and the like, against dark backgrounds. Trying to remove over-exposure just leaves a vivid green discolouration,
I should have added that I’d tried that and got nothing - which surprised me as usually very good (though Sound ID can be a bit addictive)