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Well, my 100th bird was an American Kestrel about 4 hours after this photo. But still!
Taken with my mediocre phone camera through my adequate binoculars.
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Captured in the early morning near Toronto, beg. of September
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Pretty much the same place, time of day and setup as yesterday's Goldcrest, but when I processed the photo, there was the white strip above the eye (and sadly, rather soft focus).
Oh, and a bonus to try interpreting:
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Location: Midwest USA
I had quite a run in with this heron. Usually I scare them off, but this one was extremely chill. I was able to get as close as 3 feet. Closer than the MFD of my 75-300mm lens 😂. I watched it wade for about an hour catching 5 fish. This was a very cool experience.
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Always a bit of a challenge, these little hunters, but I was quite pleased with this shot (and quite a few others today)
Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800mm
Prospect Park, Reading, UK
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I've been wanting to post here for awhile, but I never had anything worthy. I finally bought a decent enough telephoto lens and took it out today. Location: Midwest USA
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At Fobney Meadows, Reading, UK
Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800 (and definitely pushing the limits of the lens!)
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Dublin, Ohio, we are getting a lot of migratory warblers and I am lucky enough to have a small wooded space near my house that I can lunch walk.
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I was actually looking for an eurasian jay i've heard and than i saw this one here sitting nicely on the tree top. Still quite far away, but the closed iv'e come to one yet, when i had the camera with me.
Muehlviertel, Upper Austria, AT
Nikon Z6II + Nikkor Z 120-600mm, 1600 ISO
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I'm not fully convinced of my identification, but then I took the photo thinking it was a Chiffchaff. However, no eye-stripe and that streaked crest is not right for a warbler. Worse, it was over-exposed (at ISO8000, 1/1250s) so my corrections may have spoiled the balance of light to dark.
Prospect Park, Reading, UK
Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800
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Last weekend I was in the north east woods in Comox Valley and caught this woodpecker in action.
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A male mandarin duck from last weekend's walk (Sept. 2025, Germany)
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Took me a while to finally take a semi-decent shot of that jumpy little bastard. My arms were already complaining loudly as i tracked it through the trees with the camera and the lens of notable size as calmly as possible.
Taken in upper austria, with a Nikon Z6II and the Nikkor 180-600mm
Edit: was being stupid with the image upload.
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