Bird species #138 on my life list was spotted making a very quiet, song-free “hop-fly-hop” circuit of my backyard from bush to tree to bush in the mid-morning hours of September 5, when the midsummer sun has a hard time piercing the collective shade of Douglas Firs. I chased this restless, understated beauty (who ironically appeared up just below my lens, but was too fast for me to get then) for 2 minutes from the second floor sunroom, pretty sure that even a long-distance shot would evade my best efforts. However, on its second “lap”, I finally nailed a shot of it perching on a slender branch, just above one of the potted artichoke plants.
why the name “orange-crowned” warbler? I’ve yet to see one with an orange crown!
f/6.3, 1/400, 150-500mm telephoto lens, 500mm, ISO 400, flash on
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Well caught!
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thank you, Susan! it is to date my only sighting of said bird species. hopefully more sightings of it will happen next summer!
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I know the waiting game for just the right shot. It feels like vindication when it finally pays off. Good job!
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thank you, Jan!
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Sending you a crown for this amazing shot! \%%%/
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thank you, New Bloggy Cat! 🙂
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My pleasure!꒰ღ˘‿˘ற꒱⃛
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Just lovely!
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thank you! 🙂
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Wow, what slender little feet it has! There are so many beautiful things to enjoy in this life!
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truer words were never spoken! thank you for your visit, Merry Hearts, and have a great weekend enjoying beautiful things! 🙂
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She is very beautiful this Orange-Crowned Warbler.
I wish you a good Sunday.
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thank you, Hervé! hope you had a great weekend.
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Lovely lovely little bird. Rename him gold crowned warbler and don’t care what anyone says! 😀
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he was a precious one to photograph! 😀 😀 😀
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When I have a precious photo it sometimes takes me a while to post it. I sort of want to keep it to myself for a while!! 😀
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I’m starting to develop those tendencies, too!! 🙂
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I kept some black and red woodpecker photos for a couple of months!!
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but now that you’ve told me … ya gotta share in a post!! 😀
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I have posted them it just took me that long. I think it was Easter this year! 😀
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how did I miss that one? I am going to have another look!!
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Crown or not, she’s a gorgeous little bird, and you caught all of it!
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thank you, Noelle!
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Sure is a nice shot, I notice it was shot at 500m, with flash on. Did the flash fire, what setting would it have been on, did you use a diffuser of any sort?
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thank you, Brian! the flash did indeed fire at full strength. subject is quite far away, though … 10-15 feet away on a fairly bright day (no diffuser used). I generally shoot in manual mode (presetting the shutter speed and aperture but letting the camera decide the ISO). When I use the flash in manual mode on my Canon 6D, the ISO is automatically fixed at 400.
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Thank you. Interesting and useful info.
Cheers.
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you’re welcome!
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