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Scissor-tailed flycatcher
A Great Blue Heron flying with it's prey a second time. Notice the second puncture wounds on the fish, he got interrupted when he put it down the first time so had to re impale it to move to safer ground.
A Shrike also known as "The Butcher Bird" they impale their prey on barbed wire to enjoy a little at a time. If you see a snake, lizard or small rodent hanging on barbed wire this may be the reason.
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15th July 2015, 02:18 AM #1
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15th July 2015, 03:14 AM #2
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Re: Some Recent Shots for CC
I would have to say I like the first shot of scissortail
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15th July 2015, 07:56 AM #3
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That's an excellent set Barbara and I agree the standout is the first one - just.
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15th July 2015, 09:12 AM #4
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Nicely done, good use of diagonals in composition or backgrounds.
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15th July 2015, 02:06 PM #5
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Re: Some Recent Shots for CC
Thank you Randy! I love the Scissor tails!
Originally Posted by rtbaum
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15th July 2015, 02:07 PM #6
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Originally Posted by John 2
Thank you John!
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15th July 2015, 02:08 PM #7
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Originally Posted by Shadowman
Thanks John!
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15th July 2015, 02:26 PM #8
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Wonderful series Barbara, I like them all, too hard for me anyway to pick a favorite!
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15th July 2015, 02:38 PM #9
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Thank you David! I have a problem picking as well. Just like children they all have thier strengths and weaknesses but you love them all the same Originally Posted by deetheturk
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15th July 2015, 02:46 PM #10
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Barbara, my long time ambition since I was young was to catch a fly with my chopsticks. Honest...!!!
Having got that failure to do so for a long time mentioned, I truly like the two shots of the Scissor Tail Flycatcher...do they really catch flies??? Just wondering....
The colourful feathers is what attracted me to the second shot whilst at the first, is the sharpness....
All the comps here are excellent, Barbara...not that I do not like the rest of them, the two last ones are very good too and the reportage are informative...especially the Butcher's bird. Must be scary to all its victims knowing they really have no chance at all to even escape its claws...
What I like most about nature is that they kill and eat and sometimes share what they caught...they never do any trading at all like people needed to, to survive....
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15th July 2015, 02:54 PM #11
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So true! Originally Posted by IzzieK
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15th July 2015, 11:49 PM #12
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Some may say that the background is too busy, are maybe the tail drops out of focus on that first one.
I like, nice capture.
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16th July 2015, 03:06 AM #13
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It's No 1 for me Barbara, a perfect pose but the rest are top notch as well.
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16th July 2015, 04:32 AM #14
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Thank you Jim! Originally Posted by Ziggy
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16th July 2015, 04:33 AM #15
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Originally Posted by Stagecoach
Thanks Grahame!
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16th July 2015, 12:25 PM #16
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Great series
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16th July 2015, 03:08 PM #17
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Thanks Binnur! Originally Posted by bnnrcn
Great series
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HI Barbara
excellent pictures; In #1 and #3 I could not imagine how to improve.
Erwin
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17th July 2015, 01:07 PM #19
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Thank you Erwin!
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17th July 2015, 07:51 PM #20
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These are all very impressive, but I do like the first two.
I have been looking for a good picture of a Great Blue Heron. I was on the Isles of Scilly in early June and they recently had a Great Blue Heron there. I had taken some shots of a heron on our first day, and I was hoping that the bird was a Great Blue, but looking at your picture, it was unfortunately clear that mine was the common European Grey Heron. They are remarkably similar!
John
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