Bird

ronwoodcraft · Apr 30, 2011

Took this in Arizona. Looked it up in my book, and found it to be a "King Bird".

naturegirl · Apr 30, 2011

Beautiful! You even got the little hook in the beak! It's part of the flycatcher family, cousin to the Scissortail. I think they are the most noble looking of the little birds. Nice pretty picture :icon_thumleft:

Tuberale · Apr 30, 2011

Kingbirds are truly fearless. I have seen them attack cats in trees; on falcons, hawks and eagles. They mimic the sound of raptors, especially eagles. You need to witness seeing 2 kingbirds chasing a bald eagle from near their nesting site: 2 small birds about the size of blackbirds scaring a much larger bird away. How? They were making sounds similar to a Perigrine falcon, perhaps the only bird unimpressed by eagles.

Silver Searcher · Apr 30, 2011

Stunning shots of a super little bird :icon_thumleft:

reminds a little of our yellow wagtail :thumbsup:

SS

naturegirl · Apr 30, 2011

Tuberale, that behavior is why this family of birds is the genus Tyrannus(sp?) like the dinosaur. Thus the 'King' part. they are fierce! Tyrant flycatchers! wouldn't be summer without them.

hammered · Apr 30, 2011

Silver Searcher said:
Stunning shots of a super little bird reminds a little of our yellow wagtail

SS

You got there first Colin :laughing7:

, I was going to say the same thing. Nice shots tho', tack sharp, really well done :thumbsup:

hammered

ronwoodcraft · Apr 30, 2011

Many Thanks To ALL for your comments. Heres another pic that I cropped and made afew adjustments to.

naturegirl · Apr 30, 2011

stunning!

crazyjarhead · May 6, 2011

Very nice, clear pic fit for publishing :thumbsup:

fyrffytr1 · May 6, 2011

Awesome picture. What camera did you use?

ronwoodcraft · May 7, 2011

fyrffytr1 said:
Awesome picture. What camera did you use?

I used a Canon XSI, with a Canon 400mm lens and a 1.4 teleconverter attached. I was about 12 feet away from the bird.

Thanks again ALL,

Ron

allen · Jul 9, 2011

its a pretty little bird !

NGE · Jul 14, 2011

Nice shot. Sure glad I don't have to buy extra lenses to do the same thing (Fujifilm HS20exr) I shoot in manual mode a lot. My fixed lens zooms from 24mm - 720mm..........NGE

ronwoodcraft · Jul 14, 2011

notgittinenny said:
Nice shot. Sure glad I don't have to buy extra lenses to do the same thing (Fujifilm HS20exr) I shoot in manual mode a lot. My fixed lens zooms from 24mm - 720mm..........NGE

Thanks NGE and ALL.

Cool, 24 to 720 is quite a range. It does get expensive buying lenses, seems like I need another one at times.