{"id":1850,"date":"2024-09-14T06:07:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T06:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design-sc123.com\/portfolio\/layout-design-2\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T13:11:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T13:11:46","slug":"birds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/design-sc123.com\/portfolio\/birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photography<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

with a focus on Birds<\/span><\/font><\/p><\/h1><\/div>

The thrill of capturing a bird through my lens is a serious hobby of mine. My camera of choice is a Canon R7 with a lens adapter for my favorite lens a Canon EF 100-400mm. The Canon R7 is a crop sensor camera which differs from the full frame cameras. I purchased this Canon body to achieve greater distance on my shots. In general, birds don’t like being around humans in nature. That is a why a telephoto lens is a requirement for birding.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\t\t\t\t\t\tDiversity<\/div><\/div>

They are as diverse as humans. Just like us, they come in many sizes and shapes<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Sounds are Interesting<\/div><\/div>

Song birds are soothing and then there is the horrible screech of a heron<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

No Legal issues<\/div><\/div>

A bird won’t sue you or yell at you for taking their picture<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Cooper Hawk?<\/span><\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div>

I am pretty sure this is a Cooper Hawk with the color of its eyes. I was debating if this was possibly a Red-Tail Hawk, as those are pretty common in New Jersey. The texture does not seem to fit a Red Shoulder or Red Tail, so I will go with the Cooper Hawk id. This is why birding is so much fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Blue Magpie<\/span><\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div>

This is a Blue Magpie that I was able to capture in a mountain area of Taiwan. These shots were really tough as it was pretty early in the morning; lighting was not great; I was at a pretty far distance from my subjects; had no tripod available. I shot in manual mode with f-stop 5.6, shutter speed 1\/500, and ISO 8000. F-stop does not go any lower at 400mm max and I really couldn’t<\/span> set my shutter speed any slower. DIdn’t want to go any higher than ISO 8000 so not too much noise would be introduced into my shots. In the end, I really liked the 2nd image of the magpie flying through the opening in the trees. I had no choice but to shoot that at 1\/400, which is really not a good shutter speed for a bird in flight. My thoughts are always do the best with what you got. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Grab bag of Birds<\/span><\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div>

These are just shots that I really enjoy. Some of the pics are from Taiwan and the rest are from America including New Jersey and the White Ibis from Florida. From Left to Right: Image 1- Juv. Blue Heron (white color) with Night Heron; Image 2- Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher; Image 3- Pacific Rim Heron with crabs; Image 4- Taiwan Green Beret; Image 5- Ibis; Image 6- Blue Heron (typical in NJ); Image 7- Yellow Belly Gnatcatcher; Image 8- Taiwan Mountain Thrush<\/font><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1850","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-sc123.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-sc123.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-sc123.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-sc123.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design-sc123.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/design-sc123.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/design-sc123.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1850\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design-sc123.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}