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Happy Sharp-Shinned Hawk Saturday
One of the dangers when feeding small birds from home feeders in the winter :-(
Today, he went away hungry at our house :-)
A sudden scurrying of sparrows coupled with chickadee alarm calls betrayed this hunter. Lake St. Clair.
I wasn't going to upload more photos today but this hawk showed up and let me get a few photos. It moved around so I am posting 3 shots from different positions. This is in my backyard, Yakima County, Washington. This adult bird has now stopped by 3 consecutive days. IMG_6971
Debated between Cooper's hawk and Sharp-shinned hawk. Had settled on Cooper's hawk but was happy to be corrected as it is a lifer for me. It was perched on a branch overlooking a large bird feeder and was not at all bothered by my presence.
April 9th_2019
Forgive me when I post too many photos of the grouse!
On April 9th 3 friends and I drove south of the city to a Sharp-tailed Grouse lek. I hadn't thought about the degree of difficulty that might challenge me in climbing over the stile with a knee replacement. I really struggled so I do not think I will be returning to see the grouse in future years.
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Photographed at home, Yakima County, Washington. As always, I have difficulty distinguishing juvenile Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawk so I could be incorrect. If the same bird, this bird has been here 3 times already this morning. I photographed it twice but still haven't got a photo that doesn't have distracting branched in it.
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PCで見ると今一つ光芒がシャープでない。
ISOが1250で固定になっていた。
先週の夜景の際の設定を戻すのを忘れていた。
For some reason, the light is not sharp when viewed on a PC.
ISO was fixed at 1250.
I forgot to return the settings for the night view of last week.
Calidris acuminata, with Least Sandpiper in foreground.
Morro Bay salt marsh as a 6.2 ft. tide was receding,
Seen from marina boardwalk,
Morro Bay, California
The bird had been found the previous day at about high tide by Kilian Hampl and identified by Will Knowlton. This species breeds in northeast Asia and after a long migration, winters in southeast Asia and Australasia. A few birds migrate down the other side of the Pacific Ocean and it is considered a rare autumn migrant in North America.
Yesterday I had an opportunity to spend the morning out at Smith Point for the hawk watch and it ended up being a great experience with plenty of raptors seen and photographed. This young Sharp-shinned Hawk flew right over us at close range and definitely checked us out.
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Accipiter striatus
WSOR brings a loaded grain train down the CN through Ackerville.
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Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger,
but a heart as soft as tofu.
(Chinese Proverb)
Weekly Theme Challenge - Something Fluffy
Looking close... on Friday! - Combination of Soft & Sharp
(photo by Freya, edit by me)
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A group of 6 sharp-tails showed up in the yard today and feasted on sunflower seeds under the feeder.
Cooper's Hawk
Accipiter cooperii
A visitor to my back yard early this past fall. I think it sees me, I am lucky to have not spooked it.
So, Sharpie or Coop? The top blocks of the retaining wall it landed on are about three inches thick, putting the bird at roughly 12-14 inches head to tail. The tail appears to be rather squared off, plus the streaking looks more like Sharp-shinned rather than Cooper's. All things considered I'm calling it a Sharpie. What do you think?
CORRECTION: A couple sharp-eyed Flickr friends provided evidence that this hawk is a Cooper's, not a Sharp-shinned. See the comments below. I stand corrected.
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Grand Traverse County, Michigan
On this day I had been invited to visit my friend Barb who lives in the Millarville area. She has many feeders and quite a bit of garden as well as a greenhouse. There was lots to see! The evening before had been quite chilly providing lots of dew on the flowers.
This Sharp-shinned Hawk was chasing after the Blue Jays. There was constant commotion as the Jays chased it around and around.
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I found this bird in my backyard yesterday (10/31) eating a Halloween treat. The prey may have been a Dark-eyed Junco. Unfortunate for the junco but the hawk has to eat. Although it is hard to tell from the photo the hawk was under the canopy of a shrub on a dark mostly cloudy day so the shutter speed was slow and the photos are not as sharp as I would like. Yakima County, Washington. IMG_9526
Sharp-tailed Grouse are frequent visitors to my bird feeder. They nibble on the sunflower seeds that fall on the ground under a big evergreen tree. Unfortunately there is a very domineering little red squirrel who seems to think that he is the czar of the bird feeder and he comes flying out of nowhere to chase them away.
(taken from a window)
Manitoba - Canada
for the Macro Mondays challenge “Sweet Spot Squared” (September 19th 2016)
I like a little sharp and tangy taste with my sugar, so I chose raspberries ;o)
Finding and shooting the sweet spot!
I've got 3 macro 1:1 lenses now - but when I started out there was only one to fit my new Sony NEX-6, and it was Sony's eMount 30mm/3.5. That was March 2013, and I learned macro work through that lens for the next 2 years. So that was the lens I chose for this challenge.
I shoot macro in Manual, and have never explored the 'sweet spot' before - so I followed Janet's directions and used Aperture mode and shot all 17 F stop settings the lens has on two 2cm raspberries. I scattered sugar granules of various sizes both in front and behind the raspberries, to give me an idea of just how the overall image sharpness changes with the F/stop change.
Comparing the shots I used Janet's direction again: "You will be looking for the shot that has the sharpest details with as little blurring as possible". I thought it would be simple - F22 is the inevitable choice to offer minimal blurring, while keeping the subject in focus.
But I found a puzzling oddity. From F16 through to F22 the sharpness of the background elements increased, but the sharpness of the 'in focus' elements fell off. I repeated the experiment with a strawberry (a much larger subject) and the same result emerged - past F16 the 'in focus' elements of the shot suffered!
I went online to see if I could find an explanation. And the trusty B&H website came through with an article:
www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/content/rules-thumb-finding-...
I needed to compromise and take 2 or 3 stops back from F22 to find the best balance. There was little to choose between F16 and F18. This shot uses F16. And yes - I did then crop the original shot I used, to highlight the main raspberry, and leaving out most of the background sugar 'scatter'.
I hope it hits the sweet spot with you too :o)
Following on from the discussion Where do you draw the line? I've taken an old credit card as my guide, which is 3"x2" and added measures in cm too. I do SO hope that this will become the standard for Macro Mondays! My 2 raspberries are set on this 'new' format for my regular establishing shot in the first comment field
My 2016 Macro Mondays set: 2016 Macro Mondays
My Food and drink set: Food and Drink
Pretty sure this is a sharp-shinned hawk Accipiter striatus, just guessing. Another possibility might be a Merlin, though this bird's head is not quite shaped right, nor does it have any 'eyebrow' mark, as a merlin might (but not always) have.
I just don't see either of them often enough to know.
This little (crow size) raptor has been hanging around my little pond for several days, swooping rapidly from under cover likely grabbing little songbirds.
We first noticed the flickers completely disappeared from our backyard, including the mating pair, as well as an unusual disapperance and silence for long stretches of time, from other songbirds.
Perhaps the result of this bird taking the opportunity to ambush feed on the numerous little songbirds that have arrived.