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Google Lens says the original picture is a Red Tailed Hawk.
Google Lens is pretty good at identifying all sorts of things. A couple of years ago my wife brought home about six large photo albums of Arizona birds. All printed and mostly labeled in nice albums. We have tried to find out who took the photos, but they may have never been digitized, so nothing to go on. The photographer had some pretty cool pictures of Harris Hawks stacking, among hundreds of other pretty nice pictures of AZ birds. Yesterday we watched a Cooper's Hawk shadow a pack of coyotes for awhile. I suppose he wasn't have much luck on his own, and hoped to steal something from the coyotes. As the coyotes moved up the mountainside,the hawk flew to better vantage points. I think they all went home empty handed. Wildlife is on the down turn in at least the PHX Mtn Preserve. |
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Native to Australia and New Guinea, but named for species known in Europe or UK, as so many are. Thus we have our own magpie, plover, crow or raven etc, none of which are related to their northern hemisphere namesakes.
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Not much of a birder, though I'd love to get into it more. Love watching raptors, and haven't seen an owl in years.
I can watch a hawk soaring for hours. I'll stop the car, get out and just watch if I see one. Drives the wife nuts. Thx for the pics. |
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chickadees or meisens? I'd have guessed the latter, as you live in Bavaria?
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Did you know you can easily adapt those screwmount lenses to work on the 5D? I've got several I'm using that way along with a slew of Contax Zeiss and Leica R lenses. The EOS mount is great for being compatible with a lot of old lenses. These were done with a M42 mount Pentax 50/1.4 on Canon DSLRs https://fotodioxpro.com/products/m42-eos-v2 |
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Thanks your pics are really nice as well. I do have a few eos m42 adapters, I even have one with a focus confirm chip in it that works really well. |
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I have to get really close to birds to get any kind of decent feather detail because of the full frame/200mm. What I want is the 100-400L. I can’t complain too much though since the lens reliably takes good sharp pics when I’m in range.
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Haven't seen this particular breed at my feeders lately (pic was taken a few years ago) but the squirrels still come around and often manage to hop on.
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When I see Northern Flickers from afar, the white "rump" patch is the most obvious indication, but also often the flash of yellow or red in the wings depending on which flicker it is. And they tend to forage on the ground so you'll see them there or flying up from the ground into nearby trees when passing them on bike or in a car. Woodpeckers are some of my favorite birds. Particularly awesome named species is the Yellow Bellied Sapsucker. |
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A few shots from over the years:
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is that what they are called? possibly! Had to rely totally on dict.cc for the word...
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One more... this weirdo is willow ptarmigan from Alaska.
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