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Description
Drat, that woman moved the suet feeder again! (But that gets them to pause for a split second while they calculate the new trajectory…) From this morning’s session.
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Technical Details
Minor shadows and highlights moves in LR. Into PS for NR and removing part of the feeder on the left. Cropped to 60% of the full frame.
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Just STOP with all these killer nuthatch images!!
It’s killing me that we don’t get these guys around here (or I’m missing them all).
Love the “curious” pose, tack-sharp detail, and BG.
If you were so inclined, you might dig up some moss or lichen to compliment the perch. I’ll send you some, in exchange for one of these beauties…
Thank you for a wonderful look at this little character Diane. I like the upside down look and it does indeed feel like it is trying to calculate the best approach the the new dinner set up. Great detail, great BG, nice perch. This is hitting on all cylinders.
Thanks, @SandyR-B and @Ed_Williams! Sandy, we don’t have a lot of Nuthatches. Would a big box of Oak Titmice work? With some Acorn Woodpeckers thrown in?
We also don’t have a lot of interesting lichen except on very scraggy oak branches. I do need to go perch hunting, though. Any moss is usually on huge oak trunks and only green in winter, but that’s something to look for. It starts raining November 1 and stops April 1.
Thanks, @Allen_Brooks! No – I remember the days back in the last century when TCs degraded IQ. No longer! After trying to find any noticeable difference and failing, I use the 2X with no reservations at all. I’m using the 1.4X now for composition and DOF expediency. I’ve moved the blind to the point where the distance from it to the feeders to the trees give me the DOF I like for the BG leaves on the wild plum tree that is my new BG. It has a much more pleasing green than the Blue Oaks that are otherwise prevalent here. With the TCs on, there is limited zoom on the 100-500 – I can only go down to the 300mm point – and the 2X gave me too narrow a FOV. The birds seem tolerant of me in the blind and I’m thinking of moving it closer to the feeders and using the bare lens, but then I’d probably need to move the feeders closer to the tree and that will wait till next spring when we can plant the feeder pole in what passes for dirt here without needing an excavator.
Thanks, @Dennis_Plank, @Allen_Sparks and @peter! I’m having fun with these guys for sure. There are only a few – I’ve only occasionally seen two at a time, and one has a lighter cap so apparently a female. Haven’t seen any obvious juveniles. And the very numerous Oak Titmice chase them away from the feeders, adding to the challenge.
