band-tailed pigeon

Gallery: AvianPosted February 16, 201375 views5 comments

we had placed some seed out on the deck for the chickadees and siskins in northern new mexico when to our surprise a lone band-tailed pigeon showed up. this was at about 8700' up on a mountain. this was the first time we'd ever seen this specie. i took this shot through a window. this beauty stayed around for a couple of days and then left. we'd never seen another one since.

5dmII| 300mm f/4L + 1.4 tc| iso 1600| 1/200| PP in cs5 and dpp.

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Comment posted by Ray Whitt on February 17, 2013 at 9:27 AM

Nice colors and good details. He gave you a pretty nice pose too.

Ray

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Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on February 17, 2013 at 10:39 AM

The window may have cost you a little detail esp around the eye, but very nice to have photographed a new bird! The pose is sweet. Sharon

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Comment posted by Craig Strand on February 17, 2013 at 4:39 PM

Very handsome bird and pose.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on February 17, 2013 at 5:30 PM

Great head turn, Danny. The snowy highlight above the bird is a bit distracting to me-maybe tone it down a bit?

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Comment posted by Lucy Aron on February 20, 2013 at 12:16 PM

Love the position of bird and colors, work well with greys in bgd.

lucy

Registered on February 25, 2011, 189 Posts, 1160 Comments