Humber River Trail May 22

[Ally]

I'm happy to see a couple of the Bay Breasted, only got one of them. I followed the tips of Shortsighted and let the sandpiper come to me, that is amazing experience. Caught Yellow fly-catching on the stream, kind of nice. And I went all the way to the Kingfisher's place, and couldn't find either one of them, came home to find the male hunting on the tree across the stream at my place. And the lighting is bad. Life!

[Ally]

Sandpiper coming

[Ally]

Yellow fly-catching

[thouc]

More great flight pictures of the Yellow Warbler. Really cool with the light through the feathers.

And the sandpiper is a Spotted this time.

/Thomas

[Ally]

More great flight pictures of the Yellow Warbler. Really cool with the light through the feathers.

And the sandpiper is a Spotted this time.

/Thomas

Wrong again? There were some spotted sandpipers close by this one, but this sandpiper is particularly spotty, is it a male?

[Shortsighted]

Well done. Your flight shots are always remarkably fine and all the more impressive when
I consider that you are using a heavy, slow lens. Your pan and follow must be swift and fluid
to catch a warbler in flight. I hardly ever get to see a Yellow warbler close enough to train
my 200mm onto. The Humber River Trail might be a better venue than the trails I've been on
in the past when trails were a regular feature of my week. The open wing capture is not only
dramatic (dynamics not being a part of still photography) but esthetic as well, as already commented
upon vis-a-vis the trans-illumination of the primaries. I'm sure you have developed a technique
that seems to work for you. Your Spotted sandpiper is the most intensely festooned example I
have ever seen. So many spots, so little breast and chest. Super detail too. Was that at 500mm?
Your species captures are ramping up quickly.

[Shortsighted]

Processed Bay-breasted warbler

[Dinusaur]

Haha, processed image certainly looks better now that the branches are out of the way.
Ally, those flight shots are remarkable, given their erratic flight pattern not an easy to keep it in the focus in flight. Really well done.

[Ally]

Well done. Your flight shots are always remarkably fine and all the more impressive when
I consider that you are using a heavy, slow lens. Your pan and follow must be swift and fluid
to catch a warbler in flight. I hardly ever get to see a Yellow warbler close enough to train
my 200mm onto. The Humber River Trail might be a better venue than the trails I've been on
in the past when trails were a regular feature of my week. The open wing capture is not only
dramatic (dynamics not being a part of still photography) but esthetic as well, as already commented
upon vis-a-vis the trans-illumination of the primaries. I'm sure you have developed a technique
that seems to work for you. Your Spotted sandpiper is the most intensely festooned example I
have ever seen. So many spots, so little breast and chest. Super detail too. Was that at 500mm?
Your species captures are ramping up quickly.

Thank you, they were shot at 600mm, and you are so right, both of my wrists hurt. I was about 5-6 metres away from where the warbler was.

[Ally]

Haha, processed image certainly looks better now that the branches are out of the way.
Ally, those flight shots are remarkable, given their erratic flight pattern not an easy to keep it in the focus in flight. Really well done.

Thank you, there is one section of the stream where Yellow likes to fly-catch, it's fun when my timing is right, so the light will work for me.

[Ally]

I found one I took in 2018, lucky shot, and I don't have the original photo any more, only a reduced size one.

[thouc]

Both male and female breeding birds have spots, while non-breeding birds lack them. This one is probably in full breeding plumage while the less spotty ones are still transitioning into it.

Wrong again? There were some spotted sandpipers close by this one, but this sandpiper is particularly spotty, is it a male?

[Ally]

Both male and female breeding birds have spots, while non-breeding birds lack them. This one is probably in full breeding plumage while the less spotty ones are still transitioning into it.

Thank you so much. They are nervous, just like killdeers

Wrong again? There were some spotted sandpipers close by this one, but this sandpiper is particularly spotty, is it a male?