Canadian Bird - Printable Version

Canadian Bird - Printable Version

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Canadian Bird - Rolf - Dec 9, 2014

Any twitchers out there?

Took this last week in my back garden in Calgary... there were a lot of them just eating the berries of the Choke Cherry Tree... anyone any idea what it is?

Details:
Camera - Canon EOS 1Ds Mklll
Lens - Canon EF 300mm f2.8L is
Aperture - f 11
Shutter - 1/4000

Apart from shrinking for the site, no post applied

RE: Canadian Bird - snaphappy - Dec 9, 2014

A really beautiful photo. Looks like a Bohemian waxwing to me.
Regards
Jane

RE: Canadian Bird - Rolf - Dec 9, 2014

(Dec 9, 2014, 12:01)snaphappy Wrote: A really beautiful photo. Looks like a Bohemian waxwing to me.
Regards
Jane

Hi Jane! Thank you... It is... now that you gave me the name I looked up a picture and hey presto! Big Grin

I like to take wildlife pics... trouble is I have little idea about some of the birds over here - the differ markedly from what I was used to in the UK. Are you into Birds/Bird photography?
Kind regards
Rolf

RE: Canadian Bird - snaphappy - Dec 9, 2014

Hi Rolf
I take the occasional bird photo if I can, but am not a specific bird photographer. I feed birds in my garden in England, but recognised your bird from a photograph I had seen recently.
Jane

RE: Canadian Bird - Rolf - Dec 9, 2014

(Dec 9, 2014, 13:03)snaphappy Wrote: Hi Rolf
I take the occasional bird photo if I can, but am not a specific bird photographer. I feed birds in my garden in England, but recognised your bird from a photograph I had seen recently.
Jane

Thank you for taking the time to reply, and your kind assistance. Smile

Kind regards
Rolf

RE: Canadian Bird - Plantsman - Dec 9, 2014

We get the Waxwing in Britain as a migratory bird from further north. Estimation of the numbers from December to March are in the region of 12,000 birds. They arrive to feed on many berrying plants, especially when supplies haven been exhausted in their native regions. Many more also pass through Britain to winter in more southerly climes.

Peter

RE: Canadian Bird - Rolf - Dec 9, 2014

(Dec 9, 2014, 15:21)Plantsman Wrote: We get the Waxwing in Britain as a migratory bird from further north. Estimation of the numbers from December to March are in the region of 12,000 birds. They arrive to feed on many berrying plants, especially when supplies haven been exhausted in their native regions. Many more also pass through Britain to winter in more southerly climes.

Peter

Thanks Peter... didn't know that and to my recollection, Canada is the first and only place I have seen this bird. I lived mainly Shrewsbury and latterly the southern counties and London before emigrating so maybe the bird doesn't venture that far south. It is a really eye catching bird... very fleeting though... we see it in almost "swarms" for one day in the year when they come to grab the berries and be gone. Their Robin here is about 4 times the size of our native one in the UK... not as endearing as a bigger more "common" looking bird.
Have a good evening
Kind regards
Rolf

RE: Canadian Bird - NT73 - Dec 10, 2014

Beautiful capture.

RE: Canadian Bird - EdMak - Dec 10, 2014

Great shot, the name is pertinent. First look I thought it was a decoy, until I read further on. Ed.

RE: Canadian Bird - Rolf - Dec 10, 2014

Thanks Ed.

RE: Canadian Bird - Freeman - Dec 11, 2014

Hi Rolf Please send those waxwings over here, could you? Would love to have them in my back garden, that's for sure! ..Jeff

RE: Canadian Bird - Rolf - Dec 11, 2014

Apparently, they are in the UK already... I have never seen them until now in Canada, but Plantsman says that they are around at this time of year albeit "up north" in the UK....
Anyway... have a couple more Smile

(cut) paste to your tree? Big Grin

Kind regards
Rolf

RE: Canadian Bird - Freeman - Dec 11, 2014

Lovely, lovely pictures and yes we have them here (not the same exactly though - ours come from Scandinavia in bad weather) but not in my garden sadly and I've not personally seen one. We do have around 3 dozen recorded varieties in our garden though.

Very interested in your settings - f11 at 1/4000 - you must have some great light to do that even with a 2.8 lens?

Cheers Jeff

RE: Canadian Bird - EdMak - Dec 11, 2014

ISO 1600, helps! Ed.

RE: Canadian Bird - Rolf - Dec 11, 2014

Very interested in your settings - f11 at 1/4000 - you must have some great light to do that even with a 2.8 lens?

Cheers Jeff

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I think the ISO setting was 400. Needed that to get a shutter speed that slowed these guys down a tad... Shooting up into that blue sky too... The light here in southern Alberta is fantastic. The skies really are THAT blue... very deep blue on some days, especially when you drive an hour west into the Rockies! All winter long with very little exception, we have temperatures hovering around -20- -35C but that's a dry cold. Every day though is bright sunshine, not a hint of cloud anywhere and BLUE!! I do miss the odd cloudy foggy UK Autumnal days though... been here nearly 6 years and have yet to see Fog here... light mist over the Bow River twice but that's about it! Worked in the UAE... every day +40C and cloudless sunny days and warm +25C nights... paradise? Monotony after a while... I longed for RAIN!! UK has some great light variations... envy you all now.
Kind regards
Rolf

RE: Canadian Bird - rjstcroix - Dec 17, 2014

It's a Cedar Waxwing I think.

(Dec 9, 2014, 11:35)Rolf Wrote: Any twitchers out there?

Took this last week in my back garden in Calgary... there were a lot of them just eating the berries of the Choke Cherry Tree... anyone any idea what it is?

Details:
Camera - Canon EOS 1Ds Mklll
Lens - Canon EF 300mm f2.8L is
Aperture - f 11
Shutter - 1/4000

Apart from shrinking for the site, no post applied

RE: Canadian Bird - Jeffbridge - Dec 18, 2014

My goodness - stunning images.