Female Northern Cardinal - 370MM | 1/400 SEC | F/6.3 | ISO 1000
A female Northern Cardinal stands atop the bird feeder in a early Spring snow storm. Photographed handheld with the Canon 7D Mark II and the Canon EF 100-400 F/4.5-5.6L IS USM lens.
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Spring is here and the snow and sleet is still falling in Northern New York. The bad weather brought the birds in Saturday morning to feed.
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Female Norther Cardinal hunkered down in a snow storm - 1/640 sec | F / 8.0 | 360MM | ISO 4000
More birds in snow.
This post contains photos of the male and female Northern Cardinal perched in our Butterfly Bush. All photos were taken during a daytime snow storm in our yard. The photos of the male cardinals are mostly shot through the branches of the bush. I was able to take close-up images of the females as they are less skittish than the males that visit.
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Eastern Mockingbird
Winter has actually taken hold in upstate New York this year. In the last couple of weeks we have received more snow than all of last season's total. No surprise then when the forecast called for a moderate snow storm to hit throughout the day Sunday. With coffee at the ready, I grabbed the Canon 7D Mark II and went to find the birds.
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Pileated Woodpecker hop - Canon 7DMII | 400MM | F5.6 | 1/1000 | ISO 400
While drinking my morning coffee on a mild Saturday in January, I happened to notice that the Pileated woodpecker had flown into our backyard and was pecking away on several trees. My luck photographing these birds has been poor at best. Not that I do not get close to them; they have landed five feet from me on several occasions ... just not when I had a camera with me! Every time I intentionally try and photograph this bird, it takes flight before I am within a couple of hundred feet of it. My one success so far basically was because I was screened by thick foliage and there is no such cover in January in upstate New York.
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A Dark-Eyed Junco in Winter
These images were captured on the same day I photographed the Northern Cardinals in the snow. I shot with Canon 7D Mark II and the Canon EF 100-400 F/4.5-5.6L IS USM lens handheld throughout the mid-morning.
The Juncos and American Goldfinches were quite abundant only intermittently being chased off by a Gray Squirrel or Blue Jay. My objective with these photos were to blowout the backgrounds as much as possible isolating the bird. A few of the birds cooperated by perching atop the feeder in the snow or on the hanger wire. I particularly like the images with the snow flakes on the bird's beak.
These images are processed in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC for exposure, crop, and clarity/sharpness.
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American Goldfinch perched atop a bird feeder
Dark-Eyed Junco perched atop a bird feeder
Dark-Eyed Junco in the snow
A stretching Junco on an exposed edge of the bird feeder
A Junco in profile on a butterfly bush branch
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