Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Ed O'Connor on May 14, 2020, 04:20:53 PM
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Here's a photo of a Wood Thrush I saw this morning in the Wet Woods at Tommy Thompson Park. These birds are skulkers and they like to hang out in thick brush, so I don't get one every spring. One of my favorite birds, though, with the bold black spots on the breast and the chestnut-colored nape. Always happy to see them, and their song is sublime. (https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49894842243_54cd24e066_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2j237hK)Wood Thrush (https://flic.kr/p/2j237hK) by Edward O'Connor (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152894743@N08/), on Flickr
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Nice shot, they can be shy.
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Very lucky encounter, but then again, you're in the right place.
I would get tachycardia if I ever saw one that close. Only seen
one a couple of times in the past. Once near Highland Creek and
once at Ashbridges. It appeared and disappeared so quickly that
it is hard to recall any details. I would love to photograph one.
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Thanks, Paul; thanks, Shortsighted. Yes, they seem to have a sixth sense for foiling photographers, always keeping a few branches in the way. I took a dozen shots, and this was the only one that turned out at all. Now if I could just get a Brown Thrasher ...
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Finding a B. Thrasher is just chance. Once you see one, study its behaviour.
See if it has a good reason to have picked that spot. If it flies off does it
return? If so, approach while it is gone and get yourself low and comfortable.
It might be a 10-15 minute wait but it might return and perhaps ignore you
completely, assuming you are motionless. Then you'll get your shot and a
down-to-earth perspective as well.
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I managed to see and photograph a Brown Thrasher this past Monday at Colonel Samuel Smith Park (in the dogwoods patch). I did crouch down low to get the photo.
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Nice shot of the Brown Thrasher. You managed to capture what I find so captivating about this bird, which is the milk-chocolate-butterscotch-swirl color of the plumage. I'll have to start practicing Shortsighted's waiting-game technique and see what happens.