Awful Bird Pics Volume 12

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http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1055818

WAY over exposed American Kestrel. I was able to somewhat salvage it in Photoshop, but still way white.

Thanks for starting the new thread Marna! Still nice that you can see the wonderful head, face and chest details.

That's not an awful photagraph at all! It's great. Now, here's a truly nasty one.

I am not 100% certain which bird this is...I think a Tufted Titmouse...bad none the less.

That would still be keeper for me Marna. I want to get a photo of one so bad. I didn't see any today when I went to Greencastle and I usually several on the wires. Did see a HUGE Red-tailed hawk tho!

Yup you guys...those are bad! LOL

Here is one I got in the snowstorm friday...but it is kind of cool so I am gonna keep it!

Kestrel are hard to photogragh. They are very easily spooked. I don't know how many time I tried to get close enough, to get a good shot of them, they'd always fly off, as soon as I stopped. You did good Marna.

I can still tell, it's a Pileated nice one, not to bad a shot. Raisedbedbob

Nanny and Duckmother, now those are, super great bad shots. ;))

Bob, I like your Pileated!

Burn, I agree with you, Nanny and Duckmother have wonderful bad shots! ;-)

Nanny I agree, that awful photo is a keeper... look's like he's trying to break free of the storm.

How bad is this? If you click it and look in the lower left you can see the edges of my feeder that I made from an old light fixture--and the tip of a cardinal crest. There might even be something by the other tree that I really was going for.

Okay Sally. :-) Thanks for posting the pic! Do you know what it is that you were shooting at on the center or right?

Oh that is a good bad one sally!

Ok Sally where's the birdie?:))

Near the middle of the picture is a small green square -that's the painted side of a small feeder..I think I was aiming for something that visited there and just missed. Hoped I'd find something magically there and in focus when I cropped in!

Nice one!

Oh that kestrel might have been decent had I closed up the aperture. I had it wide open to get the focus, and then the birdie decided to fly off and I didn't get to change it. LOL. I was using that new big lens and in the truck. The strange thing about this bird is that it hangs out by an interstate and a local road. HOWEVER, if you stop the vehicle it's all freaky.

I think I've only seen a kestrel once and my pic was so much worse than that! Sally, I feel you pain, so many bird pics, so few birds actually in them.

The sun isupposed to come out at 3:00 which is in about 10 minutes and I think that it's actually darker out there. Tried some pictures anyway. Don't you find that the birds just pose for you when they know that you can't get a decent shot?

White-winged dove banquet.

One more dove pic. I love this with his head popped up.

This one is really, really bad. Had to try a pic of these sparrows on the dead ginger. Reminded me of Children of the Corn.

Super Awful Shots Everyone! Elphaba, that last shot makes me dizzy... its like putting on someone else,s glasses. lol

Jeez, you guys take some awful pics.

Hack

"huh? You're talking about me? Or my Missus' photography?" Asked this girl-cardinal sitting pretty next to the cutie goldfinch.

Hi all, I know this isn't the caption thread. But I thought the pix qualified for awful pix volume.

Too bad it was so dark out. That would have been so pretty!

I'm annoyed today b/c I would have taken some great pics this morning if my yard weren't full of smoke. My neighbor is clearly burning something up for his wife for v-day.

Very rescuable with photoshop, though!

Resin

Slavonian Grebes (Horned Grebes), too far offshore for a decent pic . . .

Resin

Cool Resin. I took a photo of a duck and when I got home, I realized that there were two pied-billed grebes in the background that I didn't even see.

This was my big disappointment though. Anhinga swimming with its head up. It kind of looked like it was gulping something down. Turned its head away from me right as I took the photo. It probably turned its head to see the alligator that was swimming behind it. I thought it was going to climb out of the water, but it didn't. Maybe safer swimming than waddling ashore?

A Downy comes to visit every once in a while. Today, he perched right on top of that broken limb where the sun is shining. Of course, I couldn't focus in time. This is the only photo that I got before he flew away and he's headless.

burn_2007, you mentioned that kestrels are shy and hard to photograph, but I think that may have to do with their habitat and degree of interaction with people. The awful bird pic I've included is of some of my "neighbors"...and I can definitely vouch that they are a breeding pair. This shot was taken this morning less than fifteen minutes after the third time I photographed them breeding in a week. They're up in a big cottonwood, and I was standing maybe a hundred feet from it, in clear view, to take this photo. I see them often and photograph them at least once or twice a week, together or alone. They watch me, but they don't get spooked even if I'm walking closer (there's a fence between our property and the tree and they seem to know I'm not gonna hop it).

Welcome to the forum Snake!

Thankee, pelletory! I'm sure I'll have LOTS of material to post here...snicker snort giggle.

One big welcome to you too, snakeadelic. Can't wait to see more of your contribution to our wonderful "awful Bird Pics" addition. lol. Okay, I've mentioned a Titmouse made it off with a whole peanut like a bandit on other thread. Unfortunately the pic. isn't fit to be posted there. So it presents itself on our Volume over here. lol

Oooh, Resin thank you for having rescuing my pic. (of the female Cardinal with the goldfinch) I appreciate your help. I don't yet know how to use photoshop, but will learn some day.

Wayyyyyy out of focus of the Redbellied WP at the feeder. And look, I've set out whole peanuts for her (woodpeckers -- in hope she/he would stop pecking on the house), also to attract Blue Jays. Blue Jays haven't came about yet.

Oh that's bad! The jays will find them soon I'm sure. My jays look and wait now for me to bring out the peanuts!

The only shot I could get of the Yellow-rumped Warbler today.

I don't always bother to try to ID birds while I'm trying to keep them in frame and arguing with my camera about auto-focus, so it's not that unusual for me to find surprises in my shots after a bird-chasing session. I'll let the courting "redtails" I was so breathlessly excited to have caught speak for themselves...and I'm sure you can imagine the 'clunk' as my chin hit my desk.

Ouch! I'm glad you recovered well snakeadelic. Wooohooo, spring is in the air don't cha know. Just look at the birds and we can see. lol.

This is the best I can do with a Pine Warbler on Friday while I set out for a wild goose chase after the Elusive Kingfisher.

Blue jay heading in after I just put out the peanuts...LOL! It had been perched on the branch tips you see behind it.

Arggggg, that reminds me to put more peanuts out for the BJ, Nan. (grin) This one would be nice, if it wasn't for the dirty window b/w the camera and the subject. lol.

My windows are so dirty...and one pane ahs bird poop right in the middle of it. It is driving me carzy. I may be able to get out there and get off today. Supposed to be about 40 and rainy today.

The Blue Jays give me lots of bad shots!!

AND the Carolina Wren too. Of course a snowstorm helps! lol

and here. Smart bird trying to feed from the bottom!