[Weebl]

Those look like BC Herons but I've never seen so many in one spot. Luckily you got out alive, seen "The Birds" lately?
You could also try Hwy 160/ first 5 miles of 12. Egrets, geese,ducks, hawks and GBH's.

[dcstep]

Another Broncos Sky by dcstep, on Flickr

This is my 7D at ISO 3200, two full stops higher than it really likes to go. I did the Raw conversion in DxO Optics Pro 9.1 with their new PRIME NR engaged and I really like the results. If I were going to make a 48" print, then I'd up the NR a little more, but this looks good as is at full-screen size. Click on the image and go to Flickr if you'd like to see larger sizes. You can still see a bit of luminance, but chrominance is pretty well gone. The PRIME process takes five to ten-minutes per image to run because of the way that the algorithm works, but it really does work well and give the 7D another stop or two of effective range.

[Itsed65]

I'm still going through about 2,000 pics from Sunday. Hopefully I have some better shots of the mystery bird.

Dave, great shots as always. Way to wring out the 7D for all it's worth!


Life at the marsh, Sacramento NWR by lennycarl08, on Flickr

[M_Six]

Here's a Black Crowned Night Heron. Look familiar?

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Here's a Black Crowned Night Heron. Look familiar?

Yeah, but they're way bigger than that here. The one in your picture is tiny compared to mine and Ed's look even smaller. Maybe it's the perspective. Here's two of mine:


Pierre enjoys the sun while Fifi prefers the shade. by dcstep, on Flickr

[Itsed65]

I think that's it guys. I will try to find a closer picture to help the perspective, but I'm pretty sure that's the critter!

[M_Six]

Mine was a city bird. Chicago River.

Bought a 5D MkIII today. Amazon had them for $2699. Couldn't resist. Now I need to sell the 6D.

[Itsed65]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Mine was a city bird. Chicago River.

Bought a 5D MkIII today. Amazon had them for $2699. Couldn't resist. Now I need to sell the 6D.

What a great Xmas gift to yourself!
Now you have f8 autofocus on your own camera, not just the school's.

Speaking of which, this was shot with my 5D3, 100-400 + 1.4 at 500mm.
After reading up on it, these are in fact a whole bunch of black- crowned night herons. They were doing exactly what the Cornell site said they do during the day.

Herons by lennycarl08, on Flickr

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by Itsed65

What a great Xmas gift to yourself!
Now you have f8 autofocus on your own camera, not just the school's.

Speaking of which, this was shot with my 5D3, 100-400 + 1.4 at 500mm.
After reading up on it, these are in fact a whole bunch of black- crowned night herons. They were doing exactly what the Cornell site said they do during the day.

No doubt, night heron.

Dave

[Weebl]

Wow, you did find the mother load. I didn't think they did that as I have only seen individuals.

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Bought a 5D MkIII today. Amazon had them for $2699. Couldn't resist. Now I need to sell the 6D.

Screamin' deal.

I paid full boat for mine, but I'm 50,000+ images ahead of you.

Dave

[Itsed65]

Originally Posted by Weebl

Wow, you did find the mother load. I didn't think they did that as I have only seen individuals.

Head up to the Colusa NWR off Hwy 20. They are always there this time of year, along the river near the bridge as you end the auto tour loop. That is also were I saw the eagle, and last year there was also a great horned owl in the trees above the herons that I didn't even see until I was going over the pictures at home. He blended right into the scenery. I was zoomed way out and could have gotten some better shots had I been more observant.


20121222-_MG_4668 by lennycarl08, on Flickr

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by dcstep

Screamin' deal.

I paid full boat for mine, but I'm 50,000+ images ahead of you.

Dave

I paid full boat for my 6D that they're now selling for $1500. I've also bought (in the last 6 months or so) a 24mm TS-E and a 100mm f2.8L macro, both of which are several hundred dollars cheaper now. Such is my luck. I think the 5D MkIII price will stay at or above what I paid for a bit longer, though.

At least you got to see an owl, Ed. I hear them all the time and one swooped over my head in the dark a couple of years ago, but otherwise we don't see them here much.

[Weebl]

I see a bunch of the Herons in Hawaii for whatever reason so no reason to try for Colusa.

Mark,
Whatever you do, don't trade the 6D in. I nearly died when you did that with the 70-300.

[M_Six]

I may have a buyer already for it. One of the photogs I work with is interested. I can't see keeping the 6D, 7D, and 5D MkIII. The 7D and 5D MkIII make a more useful combo than the 6D and 5D MkIII, so the 6D will have to go.

[Weebl]

Agreed, a good combo and I hope to do the same but there are too many toys on the list in the way.

[Icy J]

Renault Megane R26R by - Icy J -, on Flickr

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by Itsed65

Head up to the Colusa NWR off Hwy 20. They are always there this time of year, along the river near the bridge as you end the auto tour loop. That is also were I saw the eagle, and last year there was also a great horned owl in the trees above the herons that I didn't even see until I was going over the pictures at home. He blended right into the scenery. I was zoomed way out and could have gotten some better shots had I been more observant.

It's hard as hell to get GHO hunting, but if you go back at dusk you might see him hit one of those night herons. With any luck, at ISO 12800, you might get a blurry shot.

[dcstep]

Originally Posted by M_Six

I may have a buyer already for it. One of the photogs I work with is interested. I can't see keeping the 6D, 7D, and 5D MkIII. The 7D and 5D MkIII make a more useful combo than the 6D and 5D MkIII, so the 6D will have to go.

I love my 5D3/7D combo. The 5D3 is the travel, big gun and all 'round camera and the 7D is the second shooter when I've got the Canon cannon mounted on the 5D3.

[ddk632]

Originally Posted by M_Six

Mine was a city bird. Chicago River.

Bought a 5D MkIII today. Amazon had them for $2699. Couldn't resist. Now I need to sell the 6D.

Traitor!



J/k congrats on the 5DIII.

One day I will decide not to GAF about $7k and just get a 1Dx ( most likely it will be the successor to the 1Dx ), but I'll keep the 6D.

[Itsed65]

Originally Posted by ddk632

Traitor!



J/k congrats on the 5DIII.

One day I will decide not to GAF about $7k and just get a 1Dx ( most likely it will be the successor to the 1Dx ), but I'll keep the 6D.

That's how I feel about the10k for the 500mm. One of these days I'm just going to pull the trigger...one of these days.

[Kidninja]