Does anyone here like shooting birds?
I try; borrow Peter's 90-300mm lens and try to shoot some birds.
Here are a few I've shot since last week

#2

#3

#4

#5
This is looking up a tree

#6
Still looking up the tree

#7
This bird is cool at hopping

#8
#9
#10
An awkward looking bird
#11
Another rare species


Sorry, I've removed #1, it was very out of focus

I've got some more I haven't processed yet; will post them when I'm done

Please criticise! and feel free to share yours too

For the flying pictures, I tried to pan with the bird and learnt that using higher ISO is helpful Please share some tips

uhauhau ...
you didnt need to include the photos of us jumping off the hill ..
you could have put my front on one .. that was much better ~_~

yeah .. adam probably plays with my 90-300mm more then i do now a days ...
too much trouble changing lenses usually ...









ok .. no colourful birds here .. but too lazy right now to find more interesting bird pics i took a while ago ...

but heres something a lil more interesting then my white birds !

aah, if only more people had a sense of humour like you shuttertalkers... the world would be a better place

if alot of people had humor like uss .. youd see lots of people taking photos off thier friends jumping off hills ... walls ... and lying on roads, rail way trackks and benches in the parks ...

Get away!! That isnt a bird, that's stuffed, deceased, dead. It's an ex-bird!

I seem to have lost my edit function!

Numbers 10 and 11.
Please identify these "birds", who is who?

Adam is 10 ..
im 11 ...


im flying much more cool here tho ...

When you said numbers 10 and 11 I was going to go to my bible and find the biblical reference

I like the blue effect you did on that picture Rufus nice! thanks

huauha... adam ..! stop flying and come bak down to earth !!
need to go find another big hill to jump off .. that was fun ..

here are my birdie pics!

haha ... long has joined us now !
w00t .. birds on the water ..!

Hi and welcome, Lak!

I like the water trail effect around the birds! Well done!

yeah .. the leave under the water make it have a nice autumn / winter look ^^

Hahaha - and they say white men can't jump...

Welcome Long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:Lak lak laksaaaaa
I'm hungry now.... got lecture soon! byebye!! welcome long!

Thanks for the warm welcome!

Shuttertalk, I had a realli nice long trail that a duck made in a still water lake... but it was off focus >_<

Here's a neat little woodpecker I shot today...



These are cropped straight out of the full-size photo... no resizing.

I have some duck shots around here somewhere too... *goes a-searchin'*

Here's a cute little ducky...

Oooh, awesome Cailean! It's so close up!

Wow!!! That's nice! and close!!!
Your ducks there have fur, ours have feathers!!! ahhh! cool!

YEs .. our ducks are much much more ugly then yours

adam Wrote:Your ducks there have fur, ours have feathers!!! ahhh! cool!

That's just a wee duckling so his feathers are kinda weird... does look like fur though doesn't it!

When she's all growed up, she'll look like this:

If it's a female, that is... don't have a photo of the male...

Man - what a huge bird... wonder what they feed them over there...

Ahhh! Still very nice looking!

We had many baby ducklings running around uni last year!
They were all fluffy like that, following big mother duck (feathered)

I didn't get to take any pictures though, didn't have my good camera back then