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Gallery: AvianPosted January 4, 2013134 views11 comments

This Red-winged blackbird is perched on some old cattails. This was taken on a small pond outside my building where I work (constructed to hold water for our fire-sprinkler system). Really nice habitat for wildlife, I'd always go out after lunch and sit by the edge to relax. During the summer lots of frogs, dragonflies, birds and muskrat. Then for some unkown reason around the first of September they had all the cattails cut down. I was very disappointed.

D300s
70-300mm
ISO 400
300mm
1/200 @ f/11
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C & C welcome.

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11 comments

Comment posted by Tjie Poo on January 4, 2013 at 10:57 PM

Like the pose and the open beak. Nice vertical crop. Good job John !

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Comment posted by Terry Sohl on January 4, 2013 at 11:34 PM

Attitude! Very nice pose. I like the composition, kind of different with all the space below the bird, but it works very well as a vertical with those reeds coming up.

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Comment posted by Rick Turner on January 5, 2013 at 8:07 AM

Good balancing act

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Comment posted by Jefferson Silva on January 5, 2013 at 8:57 AM

Very nice, bird and picture. I liked the composition.

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Comment posted by Roger Kirchen on January 5, 2013 at 9:33 AM

Very nice shot, John. I really like the composition with the converging cattails and the smooth BG. Excellent timing with the open bill. It's unfortunate that so often "somebody somewhere" decides to destroy wildlife habitat and then it's called improvement.

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on January 5, 2013 at 2:27 PM

Nice catch of this little lady!
Love the splayed legs and 4 old cattail stalks!

Sandy

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 5, 2013 at 4:55 PM

Nice detail, John, and I love the perch.

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Comment posted by Patrick O'Healy on January 6, 2013 at 3:40 PM

Walking on stilts? A very interesting shot.

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on January 8, 2013 at 1:11 AM

Nicely perched John

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Comment posted by Basri Akcasoy on January 9, 2013 at 4:54 PM

Very nice pose, beautiful lean composition. TFS.

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on February 25, 2013 at 10:05 AM

Very nice John, love the pose/stance and open beak!
Great BG that gives a good sense of habitat - Well done

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