A few from the Backyard Blind

[Dennis_Plank]

Female American Goldfinch

Male Purple Finch

Purple Finch at the Drip

Pine Siskin

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Description

I finally got the mouse infestation in my blind to the point where I felt reasonably comfortable spending some time in it this morning. I still need to do some grass trimming around the bathing pools and get some new perches up, but it’s functional. Nothing special in the way of birds today, but a few of the old favorites did show up.

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I don’t have any particular issues with these. To me, they’re pretty common images without anything special going on. If you see something you think I should pay attention to to improve any of them, please let me know.

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All images taken with Sony A1, FE200-600 + 1.4 TC. Goldfinch at iso 2500, the rest at iso 4000, around 700 mm, f/9, shutter speed at 1/1250 for goldfinch, slowly going down to end at 1/400 as overcast moved in. Preprocessing in DxO PureRaw 5, processing in LR & PS CC.

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[Allen_Brooks]

All nicely captured, Dennis. I particularly like the pose of the goldfinch, look as if she’s showing interest in something. Nice to get the drinking behavior and water droplet with the finch.

[Allen_Sparks]

I like all of these Dennis. Nice head turns in the first two. Fine colors in all. Interesting to see the male purple finch getting a drink. Nice series.

[Peter_Morrissey (Peter J. Morrissey)]

Hi Dennis
Nice series of photographs. My top two are the first and second post. The eye contact sell the shorts.
Peter