Scruffy

Gallery: AvianPosted August 17, 201811,781 views6 comments

This time of year, between the molting adults and the spottily fledged youngsters, there are a lot of pretty scruffy birds around. This Common Yellowthroat fledgling was the more dilapidated looking of two that came to my pond a week ago. Interestingly, things have been really dead since then. At first I attributed it to the heavy smoke haze we had last week and into this week, but it's been gone the last couple of days and I still haven't gotten any birds coming in. Yesterday the only thing were Chipping Sparrows and today I didn't have anything.

7Dii, Sigma 150-600 C @ 600 mm, tripod with ball head and Sidekick, f/10, 1/160, iso 1600, aperture priority, pattern metering, -2/3 EV. Processed in LR & PS CC. Cropped to 10.7 MP. Taken at 11:25 am under hazy skies on August 10th.

Comments and suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on August 17, 2018 at 4:22 PM

The kids are great, aren't they? Very nice capture, especially in the larger view.

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Comment posted by Peter J. Morrissey on August 17, 2018 at 4:42 PM

HI Dennis
You did a great job in framing the Yellowthroat. The photograph has great detail and coloring.
Peter

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on August 19, 2018 at 12:38 AM

Nice immature Yellowthroat Dennis! I really like the mossy perch, it adds a lot of nice complimentary color and texture to the image.

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Comment posted by David Schoen on August 19, 2018 at 12:52 PM

Excellent look at this Common Yellowthroat. There is everything to like about this image including the perch, background, level of detail, and head turn.

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Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on August 19, 2018 at 1:05 PM

Very nice Dennis. Is that you in the highlight region of the bird's eye? Pretty cool! Yellows are approaching detail dropout and you may want to tweak those down slightly. Otherwise well done.......................Jim

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Comment posted by S Govindarajan on August 20, 2018 at 12:48 PM

Great frame of the ragged youngster, Dennis. Very sharp, with a nice angle and elements in the image. The background is also very complementary.

Out here, even the highest elevations are seeing heavy smoke and soot in the air. I suspect all wildlife is affected by it.

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