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Judd
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Miami, FL
| Re: [CritEditY] Birds When you see a red finch, you are looking at a male of one of three species: Purple Finch, Cassin's Finch, House Finch (non-native bird). I'd say that this bird is a Purple Finch. Let me know if you want to learn more about telling the various finch species apart. Nice photographs! Fill flash would have again helped on the finch shots.
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Walla Walla, WA
1 edit | Re: [CritEditY] Birds Would fill flash have helped much? This is a 300mm lens so chances are he is a fair distance away. Would need to be a pretty powerful flash.
Are these crops or resized originals? | |
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McFly
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Carleton Place, ON
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| Re: [CritEditY] Birds said by scareg  :Would fill flash have helped much? This is a 300mm lens so chances are he is a fair distance away. Would need to be a pretty powerful flash. Are these crops or resized originals? Ya, I dont know much about flashes. I was actually pretty close when I took these shots. Probably about 10-12 feet away. Most of these shots are just resized. A couple of the finch shots are cropped.
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Orange3
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Longmont, CO | Nice shots. Of them all, I like the top-middle shot the best.  | |
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jaykaykay
4 Ever Young
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join:2000-04-13
Scottsdale, AZ | Cropped, resized, flashed, or none used...they're all lovely. | |
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Tik
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join:2004-02-11
England
| Pretty birds - we don't have too many like that - ours are either black or brown 
Flash is useful sometimes when the light is strong and coming from behind what you are shooting - you might not need a lot of assist from it, just enough to bring out detail, so try popping up the flash anyway - nothing to lose. | |
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clevere1
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Vancouver, WA | Nice picutes Mcfly. Do ya'll have starlings around there? If so, how the heck do you keep em off your bird feeder? | |
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McFly
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Carleton Place, ON
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| Re: [CritEditY] Birds said by clevere1 :Nice picutes Mcfly. Do ya'll have starlings around there? If so, how the heck do you keep em off your bird feeder? Yes I have starlings. But they dont seem to go near the feeder.
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clevere1
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Vancouver, WA
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| Re: [CritEditY] Birds said by McFly :said by clevere1 :Nice picutes Mcfly. Do ya'll have starlings around there? If so, how the heck do you keep em off your bird feeder? Yes I have starlings. But they dont seem to go near the feeder. You lucky, lucky person! My starlings like to play keep away. Keep away any other birds
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AzzKicker
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join:2001-02-04
Edinburg, TX
clubs: | Well done McFly. If you really get into birds, pickup a good birding book. I use the Sibley Guide to Birds from the National Audubon Society. | |
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rog
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join:2002-07-03
BC
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| Great shots! Number two is an excellent capture of an Evening Grosbeak. Although the others are Purple Finches they sure look different from the ones out here. Also for future reference, female Purple finches have been known to sing quite melodically. | |
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McFly
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Carleton Place, ON
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| Re: [CritEditY] Birds said by tiggerstales :Beautiful! I used to see purple finches here regularly, but haven't seen one now for a long time. The Grosbeaks are sp pretty and colorful. We don't see those way down here. What lens were you using? Thanks TT. The lens is a Sigma APO MACRO SUPER II 70-300mm F4-5.6
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