Common Green Magpie


Posted by Biru Mitra on Tue Oct 15, 2019 12:42 pm

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Sitting within the bushes with a full battalion of mosquitoes attacking from all the sides is all that I can recall about my experience of taking this shot.  

Gears used Nikon D7000, 300/4 & 1.4X TC

1 / 250s

f / 7.1

ISO 2500

At focal length 420 mm

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by Ron Day on Tue Oct 15, 2019 1:47 pm
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What a beautiful species – love the red feet, bill, and ring around the eye. A good pose and complementary background as well.
 

by MalcolmBenn on Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:42 pm
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Quite a beautiful bird, great pose and background ... I just wish the oof light are in the upper left was a bit darker.
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by Tusar Bhowmik on Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:45 pm
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Beautiful bird and beautiful shot.
 

by Karl Egressy on Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:19 pm
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Excellent green on green image.
 

by Carol Clarke on Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:27 pm
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Beautiful species and excellent photo with lovely complementary colours, Biru!

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by Mako_Elite on Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:15 pm
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Nice shot where green color dominates including the bird.

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by Cynthia Crawford on Wed Oct 16, 2019 7:05 am
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Green on green works exceptionall well on this- beautiful shot Too bad about the mosquitoes! What we go through, sometimes , to get a shot, huh?
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by peter makuch on Wed Oct 16, 2019 7:45 am
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very well done and taken with-in all that green texture and the catch light in the eye is a bonus.
 

by david fletcher on Wed Oct 16, 2019 12:33 pm
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Gorgeous bird Biru! Sorry to hear about the mossies
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