heartyfisher: Nice composition of avid beach goers.

Here is mine today, Bluefooted Boobies:

gentoo - at zoo, and indeed it's a little bit injured

Heartyfisher - nice shoot, I really like the way this birds stand out on the background

Bickhl - your shoot looks amazing, great composition almos unreal - good job!

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gentoo - it's actually White-tailed Eagle, as I've just checked in wikipedia

adamz, where did you take that Steller's Sea Eagle? It's bill is injured but it's a nice portrait.

bickhall; Yes a nice Gentoo Penguin. The shot is also very well composed. Rule of thirds used very well in this one, well done!

heartfisher; those have to be some seriously tame pelicans! I can't get within 10 feet of the Brown Pelicans or within 50 feet of the White Pelicans when they're here. This is a really good shot too with a wide angel lens. If I told the people on birdforum that a great shot like this was done with that lens they'd laugh me right off the board! This is another one of those I'd like to blow up to poster size. You have some real talent IMO.

Ok I will join in on this Happy Bird Day too :-)

We have so many of these huge pelicans here.. its just so "normal" to have them around. But they are quite amazing birds..

Taken with my 12-24 nikkor at 24. I was hunting for nice landscapes with my 12-24 when I met these guys who posed for me. LOL 12-24 for a birding lens !! Weren't we just discussing how to get to 600mm for birding in the other thread!

adamz:
Is the eagle missing part of it's beak or is it native to this particular specie?

This one is for Gentoo, a real Gentoo Penguin in Antarctica.

Since it looks like we're having another bird day here's another bird with my 500mm reflex-nikkor

This is a scene shot in a Florida swamp.

gentoo - as for the city it's Warsaw

and below my recent photo - taken only couple hours ago:

My usual birding set up with the D300 and 300 prime. The bird is called a Townsend's Warbler for those who may be curious. This was actually my very first time shooting RAW as I hadn't been able to use it before.

Gentoo: Thanks for your comments. As to AdamZ's city, I believe it is Warsaw.

Click on the link below for a fulll size image
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3556/3491872279_2e7cce8751_o.jpg

bickhal:
Love the Mute Swan with the nice fall leaves adding a nice splash of color. You are really good at exposing white plumage.

adamz
That could be a poster! What city is it?

AdamZ,
Nice Shot, good colors,sharp reflections.

my city by night:

Nice white swan .. well this is a not so nice black one LOL

Been busy so have not been posting. anyway ..

One more bird.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3340/3488123952_5d5de68475.jpg?v=0

http://www.flickr.com/photos/roberthu/

Would that be vegetable-wood and mineral-metal?

Click the link below for a full size image
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3559/3489020125_22ae5bd19b_o.jpg

To add a little intrigue, the inspiration for posting the previous picture came from an old English TV quiz show, "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Questions

This is a (multiple) shot I have had done for a long while, but I haven't shown it off really because people started to judge me with it... They still do.

To see the larger size version of this, go to this link here http://seanneedhamphotography.com/english-panoramics.html and click on the third one down in the first column of preview images on the right hand side. (The full size is 15,000 x 4000px)

bickhal
Nice shot of the Great Egret. They can be hard to expose well but you can still see much of the detail on the right wing. The left wing is a bit blown but that comes with the territory with these birds so overall it's a nice shot.

I'll try the embedding and jump into the birding with this one:

adamz, it is said that the size is sufficient when you can put a pen under it and it will stay there :P (I hope this comment isn't against any forum rules :D)

something inspired by art:

I've actually got a 52 weeks project going on, so I'd like to tack that on here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/roberthu/