nuclearjock wrote:
Not seeing blue in the wings. Pine warbler has black eye mask and white wing bars as well. I'm sticking with Pine Warbler. Looks more like the example from Cornell as well as Audubon.
The bird is a Blue-winged Warbler. I don't need a guide or to look at an app. I have been a birder for 42 years. Look up Blue-winged Warbler and look at the shape of the bill and the amount of black on the face and you will see it is a Blue-winged and not a Pine.
this is me wrote:
Terrific shot!!
Admittedly, I’m not much of a birder. I just like to take pictures of birds and caress the big lenses.
Thank you. And you will learn. You have some quality shots of that Blue-wing. Compare it to Pine and learn the fine differences. These little birds are hard and take quite a while to learn them all and their different plumages. But photography really helps to learn because you can get a photo and take it home and study the field marks. Combine that with the sounds you heard and the habits that you watched and you have a good base for learning the species. Even a low quality photo helps a great deal to learn the birds.
aboutthelight wrote:
The bird is a Blue-winged Warbler. I don't need a guide or to look at an app. I have been a birder for 42 years. Look up Blue-winged Warbler and look at the shape of the bill and the amount of black on the face and you will see it is a Blue-winged and not a Pine.
Blue winged warbler it is then. BTW 48 years birding for me. The Blue -winged warbler also has dark almost black legs. Not seeing those either.
I recently switched from Canon to Nikon (thanks to the D850) as I came across a mint, barely used, gripped D850 with 500 f/4E. All I had to do was buy a new 1.4 extender.
I am now thinking of replacing the 500E with the 600E. Can someone let me know when the 500E and 600E were released? Oh, and if anyone knows of a used 600E within Canada, please let me know (we Canadians have to pay 12% tax when buying even USED gear from the States, so that's prohibitive).
Colin F wrote:
I recently switched from Canon to Nikon (thanks to the D850) as I came across a mint, barely used, gripped D850 with 500 f/4E. All I had to do was buy a new 1.4 extender.
I am now thinking of replacing the 500E with the 600E. Can someone let me know when the 500E and 600E were released? Oh, and if anyone knows of a used 600E within Canada, please let me know (we Canadians have to pay 12% tax when buying even USED gear from the States, so that's prohibitive).
Colin F wrote:
I recently switched from Canon to Nikon (thanks to the D850) as I came across a mint, barely used, gripped D850 with 500 f/4E. All I had to do was buy a new 1.4 extender.
I am now thinking of replacing the 500E with the 600E. Can someone let me know when the 500E and 600E were released? Oh, and if anyone knows of a used 600E within Canada, please let me know (we Canadians have to pay 12% tax when buying even USED gear from the States, so that's prohibitive).
I picked up my 600E in July 2015. Sorry, no plans to sell the 600E, but if you decide to sell your 500E let me know.
For the half dozen of outing with the 600E, I find that I come home with more keepers than the 600G. First, I'm more agile and mobile. I can walk up to the bird and start shooting away. With the 600G, I have to often time fold in the tripod legs, put the rig on my shoulders, and then plant the tripod on the ground. By the time I get the tripod down, the bird is already gone. I have more options to compose the shot as I can take a side step to the right or left and get the bird a certain way.
The only thing so far is that I still can't hold up the lens long enough for the bird to come out of the shadow sometime. I was shooting a Magnolia Warbler this weekend but the bird was moving around inside the tree and was mostly covered. I couldn't track the bird with the lens being held up for too long. If the lens is on the tripod, it would be easier to track the bird but this goes back to the composition and distance to the bird. I often needed 1.4x TC with the 600G on a DX to get decent crop image of the bird. With handheld 600E, I don't need the TC as it's easier for me to walk up to the bird. This probably contribute greatly to the improved keeper rate.
