Superb Starling

Gallery: AvianPosted May 7, 201547 views5 comments

An aptly named bird.

I have tried for years to get a reasonable image of this, pehaps this will do?

EOS 1DX

200-400mm F4 at 350 mm

F 6.3

ISO 400

1/800

EV + 0.33

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Keith Bauer on May 7, 2015 at 12:13 PM

That's a very fine image of a beautiful bird. Love the back side pose to show off those colors.

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Comment posted by Luke Ormand on May 7, 2015 at 12:18 PM

Gorgeous colors - you got enough head turn to make it work. Neat to see the spider web along the branch too

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on May 7, 2015 at 7:22 PM

Beautiful bird, bg and perch, Ken. Just wish for a tiny bit more head turn.

devil

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Comment posted by Thiraviyam Yogaraj on May 8, 2015 at 6:32 AM

Lovely image thank you for sharing

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on May 8, 2015 at 10:34 AM

Thanks everybody for your comments, I will see if there are some more with better head position devil

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