Carolina chickadee

Posted by bbart on Thu Apr 08, 2004 5:43 pm

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Carolina chickadee ©Blake Bartsch

Hi everyone. I captured this chickadee today in my yard.I was able to lure him onto the perch with some sunflower seeds.

Nikon D1.Nikon 300mm F4 AF-S.Matrix RGB,1/160 at F5.6,Exposure compensation at -1/3. ISO 400.Manual fill-flash.Blind.

All critiques and comments welcome.Thanks for looking.

Blake

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by gergled on Thu Apr 08, 2004 6:06 pm

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I love chickadees! This looks very much like the black-capped we have here in Michigan. I'll have to get out my field guide to see what the differences are.

The background is great and I like the pose of the bird on one plane which allows the most of the bird to be sharp. Also, nice use of fill flash. My only nits are that you could probably crop off some of the extra BG at the top or crop it as a horizontal, the freshly snapped off twig on the perch (a little dirt rubbed on these almost makes them disappear) and it's tail touching the edge of the frame.

Nice shot!

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by Bill Whala on Thu Apr 08, 2004 6:51 pm

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Greg covered all of my nits very well.

This image is sized too big. You made the short side 650.

If you could resize and repost that would be great.

Very nice image.

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by bbart on Thu Apr 08, 2004 7:08 pm

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Sorry about that Bill.I resized the image and resubmitted it.

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by Alan Murphy on Thu Apr 08, 2004 9:31 pm

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Nice clean shot I agree with Greg's critque.

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by Noel on Thu Apr 08, 2004 9:33 pm

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Love the coy look and perfectly smooth background.

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by whf4 on Thu Apr 08, 2004 10:03 pm

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Hi,

Can you help us tell the difference? I would have called it a BCC based on the bright secondaries.

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by bbart on Thu Apr 08, 2004 10:23 pm

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Hi,

Because the Black-capped chickadee and the Carolina chickadee are so similiar, I thought I would check some of my field guides:

National Geographic: "Note that Carolina lacks broad white edgings on greater wing coverts; lower edge of black bib is usually neater, has less olive on flanks than Black-capped." The other difference is the Black-capped is a little larger bird.This would seem to me that it's probably a Black-capped chickadee, just like you and Greg suggested.

Blake

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by Tom Bentley on Fri Apr 09, 2004 10:33 am

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Great background. The bird really pops. My only nit is the tail and how close it is to the edge.

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by Sandy Mossberg on Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:22 pm

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A fine image, Blake. Lovely BG. I wish for a bit more room for the tail and a moderate top crop.

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by Wayne Nicholas on Sat Apr 10, 2004 10:15 pm

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The only nits have been mentioned. I like the soft BG and the excellant fillflash useage.

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