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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: paul_reeves on May 05, 2014, 06:49:32 PM

Title: Northern Waterthrush at TTP.
Post by: paul_reeves on May 05, 2014, 06:49:32 PM

(http://www.paulreeves.ca/images/nature/birds/perching_birds/warblers/northern_waterthrush/northern_waterthrush_2521.jpg)
(http://www.paulreeves.ca/images/nature/birds/perching_birds/warblers/northern_waterthrush/northern_waterthrush_2529.jpg)
(http://www.paulreeves.ca/images/nature/birds/perching_birds/warblers/northern_waterthrush/northern_waterthrush_2542.jpg)

Title: Re: Northern Waterthrush at TTP.
Post by: mr.sharp-photo on May 05, 2014, 06:57:34 PM

so the chair came in handy!

Title: Re: Northern Waterthrush at TTP.
Post by: paul_reeves on May 05, 2014, 06:59:18 PM

Very handy! The bird landed just over ten feet from me and started foraging.

Title: Re: Northern Waterthrush at TTP.
Post by: lovemypt on May 05, 2014, 07:07:01 PM

Seems we have an extra one of these chairs if anyone is interested......

Title: Re: Northern Waterthrush at TTP.
Post by: Steve Hood on May 05, 2014, 08:30:38 PM

Very nice Paul.  I saw you setting up the chair just before I left the park for Thickson road.

Title: Re: Northern Waterthrush at TTP.
Post by: Luc Regnier on May 05, 2014, 10:47:55 PM

Nice job Paul...man you have patience.  Hours in the wet swamp with wet feet waiting for the right opportunity.

Cheers - Luc

Title: Re: Northern Waterthrush at TTP.
Post by: spatsycat on May 06, 2014, 12:10:26 AM

lovely shots Paul, so glad Mc and I didn't scare it away!

Title: Re: Northern Waterthrush at TTP.
Post by: paul_reeves on May 06, 2014, 07:46:59 AM

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by lovemypt » Mon May 05, 2014 7:07 pm

Seems we have an extra one of these chairs if anyone is interested......

Commission?

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Post by hoodlum » Mon May 05, 2014 8:30 pm

Very nice Paul. I saw you setting up the chair just before I left the park for Thickson road.

Thanks hoodlum. Very nice Gnatcatcher; I haven't managed one of them yet.

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by Luc Regnier » Mon May 05, 2014 10:47 pm

Nice job Paul...man you have patience. Hours in the wet swamp with wet feet waiting for the right opportunity.

Cheers - Luc

Thanks Luc. The patience part is hard but I am learning; a few minutes before the bird flew in I was about to give up but decided to give it a little bit longer.

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by spatsycat » Tue May 06, 2014 12:10 am

lovely shots Paul, so glad Mc and I didn't scare it away!

Thanks spatsycat. No worries about that; the bird hadn't shown up yet when you walked by.

Title: Re: Northern Waterthrush at TTP.
Post by: MEGHAN on May 08, 2014, 09:49:54 AM

You have to love that last shot Paul, with him peeking out from behind the tree. The moss on it really shows off the bird. Great composition.

Title: Re: Northern Waterthrush at TTP.
Post by: paul_reeves on May 09, 2014, 06:59:18 AM

Thanks Meghan.

I am really happy with all of them but yes, the moss on the peek-a-boo shot does show it off.

Title: Re: Northern Waterthrush at TTP.
Post by: Dinusaur on May 09, 2014, 07:35:01 AM

Reading through the post it is clear that one needs a lot of patience to have such a series of great photos. I saw and photographed my first (only half the bird) one in CSSP and thanks to your photo I didn't discard it thinking it was just another female RWB.

Title: Re: Northern Waterthrush at TTP.
Post by: paul_reeves on May 09, 2014, 07:54:56 AM

Thanks Dinusaur.

The hardest part for me still is learning patience. I was at the Wet Woods for just over eight hours yesterday and got nothing. Sometimes patience doesn't pay off but when it does, as it did for these Waterthrush shots, it really pays off.

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Post by: wanchan on May 09, 2014, 06:14:32 PM

Nice shots !!!

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Post by: paul_reeves on May 09, 2014, 08:04:19 PM

Thank you wanchan.