harrygilbert wrote:
The squirrel baiting reminds me of a trip to Traverse City a few years ago. Little bags of corn were being sold for 50 cents - being a cheapskate, I bought a 50-pound bag of shelled corn at a feed and grain store, and sat on the lawn of the Holiday Inn. In a short time, there were more than 100 ducks around me, climbing into my lap, sitting on my head, and eating out of my hands. It was great! Had to be careful, as I've heard it's not healthy to give the ducks too much corn at one time.
At home, I throw a handful of peanuts to the squirrels every morning, and now the cardinals and bluejays are down in the grass competing with the squirrels....Show more →
That would have made a great image!! ...... a duck on your head
PetKal wrote:
Conrad, I can tell that you have to follow a special little plan in order to improve your cormorant shots.
(1) Attract them to your neighbourhood by dumping large quantities of raw fish on the shore. Must be done daily in order to be effective.
(2) Hand pick a few most intelligent appearing birds, chase away the rest.
(3) Teach your new stunt cormorants a few tricks, like flying in circles around your house/building.
Yep, I went for the Canon one after much pondering -- it cost a bit more but I knew that if I got a third party converted I'd always be wondering what I was missing.
pingflood wrote:
Yep, I went for the Canon one after much pondering -- it cost a bit more but I knew that if I got a third party converted I'd always be wondering what I was missing.
I agree! I only buy the canon goodies because I know I will end up buying them anyway
PetKal wrote:
Conrad, I can tell that you have to follow a special little plan in order to improve your cormorant shots.
(1) Attract them to your neighbourhood by dumping large quantities of raw fish on the shore. Must be done daily in order to be effective.
(2) Hand pick a few most intelligent appearing birds, chase away the rest.
(3) Teach your new stunt cormorants a few tricks, like flying in circles around your house/building.
Love the highly paid stunt cormorant shots Peter! And another thing, why do you insist on making MY shots look like crap next to yours?!? Hehe...
Conrad Tan wrote:
I know what it is. Its the rare endangered grey fatty doo doo on a stick bird.
No, it's the "rare endangered black-capped grey fatty doo doo on a stick" ! If you're going to be a bird guy, ya gotta pay attention to those critical little details!
Chris B. wrote:
No, it's the "rare endangered black-capped grey-fatty-doo-doo-on-a-stick" ! If you're going to be a bird guy, ya gotta pay attention to those critical little details!
Oh man... You're right! I missed that. Thanks Chris!
Conrad Tan wrote:
I did some more pp on this image to try to save it as it was really really oof originally! Not too bad huh?
That's a great shot, Conrad. If you scaled back on the enlargement, I feel it would look even better.
That is one issue of frequent conflict.....many of us like to show a bird large in the frame, yet we must also be careful not to enlarge something which can not take it well, either aesthetically or resolution-wise.
All around, had a productive day with the 400 f/5.6 although nothing spectacular came out of it photographically.
* Shot a whole bunch of stunt CIFs.
* Got a few decent Common Grackle shots.
* A couple of passable GIF shots.
* A few diverse keepers.
* Shot a wedding (with 400 f/5.6.)
I still can't identify crap out there.... Haha! 
