Just amazing shots...I am curious that your Merlin is so light in coloration. Aren't most Merlins along the NW coast much darker? We get both varieties in Central Oregon, they are hammering the Vaux Swifts right now.
mogul wrote:
Just amazing shots...I am curious that your Merlin is so light in coloration. Aren't most Merlins along the NW coast much darker? We get both varieties in Central Oregon, they are hammering the Vaux Swifts right now.
One of the prolific birders that was out there today told me it is a female or immature Taiga variation. There was another one out there which was the dark, slate-grey color.
Nice!!
I only lasted an hour or so from sunrise and then to RR for a short while. Lots of raptor activity at PF though, N. Harrier, two Merlin, AK and sharpie and coops.
arbitrage wrote:
Nice!!
I only lasted an hour or so from sunrise and then to RR for a short while. Lots of raptor activity at PF though, N. Harrier, two Merlin, AK and sharpie and coops.
Thanks. Late-ish start yesterday (light not F6.3 friendly ) and all the KF and Osprey action was on the far end. You were gone by the time I made it down. I think I saw some Mergansers on the far end, but couldn't tell what they were (red-breasted hens, I thought at the time).
Pea-soup fog so far today. Boo.
Good to hear things are starting to pick up, especially with the raptors. Come on, mowers!
phishbone wrote:
Thanks. Late-ish start yesterday (light not F6.3 friendly ) and all the KF and Osprey action was on the far end. You were gone by the time I made it down. I think I saw some Mergansers on the far end, but couldn't tell what they were (red-breasted hens, I thought at the time).
Pea-soup fog so far today. Boo.
Good to hear things are starting to pick up, especially with the raptors. Come on, mowers!
It's funny how we have such different reactions to conditions. I know many landscape photographers who would gladly start selling organs (maybe also lenses) for fog.
Nothing as entertaining in the set from this morning as yesterdays snowy sequence.
Backlit sunrise shot
Sony ILCE-1
FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
ƒ/6.3 600.0 mm 1/2500 640
Sony ILCE-1
FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
ƒ/6.3 600.0 mm 1/2500 500
Sony ILCE-1
FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
ƒ/6.3 600.0 mm 1/2500 500
Couldn't get the little golf ball with legs close enough, still enough or in better light:
Sony ILCE-1
FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
ƒ/6.3 600.0 mm 1/4000 500
Sony ILCE-1
FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
ƒ/6.3 600.0 mm 1/4000 500
Sony ILCE-1
FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
ƒ/6.3 600.0 mm 1/5000 500
Every year Kokanee salmon turn red prior to spawning. They become easy meals for the remaining osprey in the Pacific Northwest as well as great photography targets …
Just posted several more in N&W if anyone's interested.
I could have really used that 600 F4 today. I was shooting 4 ft. away from Geoff on my right, and the magnification difference between it and the 200-600 is quite stark.
A few from earlier today.
And let me tell you what I REALLY think of you, Mr. Photographer...
phishbone wrote:
I could have really used that 600 F4 today. I was shooting 4 ft. away from Geoff on my right, and the magnification difference between it and the 200-600 is quite stark.
A few from earlier today.
Beautiful light, Christian! What do you mean by "magnification difference"?
Douglas L wrote:
Beautiful light, Christian! What do you mean by "magnification difference"?
A couple shots from Saturday.
Thanks, Doug. Hard to explain, but compared to the prime, this lens seems to be a bit "short" - like not quite 600mm. Geoff and I were shooting from essentially the same vantage point, but the Osprey on his frame appeared bigger shot from the same distance. It'll be more apparent when he posts his pictures later today.
) and all the KF and Osprey action was on the far end. You were gone by the time I made it down. I think I saw some Mergansers on the far end, but couldn't tell what they were (red-breasted hens, I thought at the time). 
