Nelson's Sparrow

Posted by mlgray12 on Thu Nov 20, 2014 10:05 pm

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Carry-on from pervious post - Alan joined me very early and we got prefect light, no winds and lots of Nelson's Sparrows. Everything worked perfect - This is one taken without clean background - have those too - But for me this truly shows the bird in his habitat - I call all these ammodramus sparrows feathered mice. Spend most of their time running through the grass - in this case cord grass.
D810, 600mm w/ 1.4x no flash, 1/400 sec at f/10 Iso 400
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by rbielefeld on Fri Nov 21, 2014 2:15 am

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Nice. Love the habitat. Great bird.

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by Alan Murphy on Fri Nov 21, 2014 7:06 pm

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A fun day. A wee bit busy for me and wish for more DOF for the tail.

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by mlgray12 on Sat Nov 22, 2014 1:59 pm

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Alan Murphy wrote:A fun day. A wee bit busy for me and wish for more DOF for the tail.

Great day all around - was lots of fun - I shot this at f/10 and still not enough DOF but this bird was probably closer than the more open perches - not loving idea of climbing back into mud but if I get another forecast similar to one on this day I will probably go back and shot some more!! I have tons of pictures but maybe I can get the little more DOF.
I knew this was to busy for your taste but you know how much by ornithologist friends love the habitat plus I knew you would post one with the better BG's

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