on 2013-04-21 12:59 Larry Colen wrote
As it was, the photos were clear enough that even cropping them way down, a
friend
was able to identify the bird for me.
well i had a synchronistic experience yesterday; down along the S. Platte River
i startled a couple of ducks and realized a black-crowned night heron had also
taken flight; by the time i lifted my camera it was across the river, but i was
set in TAv at f/8 and 1/1000, and got a fairly sharp shot, here it is cropped
but otherwise unprocessed:
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/zzfzb014ja641qw/50pixel_heron.png>
okay sorry for the tease, the lens was 15mm, and the distance around 30 yards,
so the bird is about 50 pixels long, shown at 300%; the only way i found the
bird in the image was by scanning the image at extreme zoom and noticing the
classic heron "gaff-rigged" wing shape
15mm has been good practice, but i'm putting the 50mm back on the camera for a
while
I must say that the 21st century lazyweb is
better than just about any bird book ever written. All I need to do is get a
half
decent photo of a bird, post a link on facebook, and in a couple of hours,
somebody
will tell me what it is.
so i guess Facebook is good for something after all ;?>
i have a couple of apps on phone and tablet that are pretty good for bird id:
iBird Pro and Audubon Birds; both are available on Android (and a fraction of
the iOS price); i like iBird Pro best
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