Tdgraves big(gest?) year 2017

[Tdgraves]

Ditholo Nature Reserve, South Africa, 15/1/17

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 320, f8, 1/800

 

 

220) Cape glossy starling

[Tdgraves]

S41 near Satara, KNP, South Africa, 22/1/17

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 200, f7.1, 1/250, EV + 1 1/3

 

 

221) Saddle-billed stork

[michael-ibk]

Congrats on passing the #200 mark - well done! Really enjoying your Big(gest?) year.

[Tdgraves]

A good weekend in the garden for birds. Firstly I saw a bullfinch across the road, then my first chiff-chaff of the year and then multiple sightings of the green woodpecker feeding its' chicks in the nest in my walnut tree. Hopefully, I will see some of them with a camera soon....

[Tdgraves]

Now I think that this is the last Kruger one and it's a bit ebc....

 

S41 near Satara, KNP, South Africa, 22/1/17

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 200, f7.1, 1/640

 

 

222) Gabar goshawk

[Tdgraves]

I had an unexpected afternoon off last week, so I thought I'd go to the lake. As usual, it clouded over as soon as I had got there . Pretty much all of the migrating water birds had left, but I had a few sightings. First the duplicates.

 

Mute swan

 

 

Yellow-legged gull

 

 

Black-headed gulls

 

 

 

 

oystercatcher

 

 

great crested grebe

 

 

and this strange bird!!

 

I heard lots of cuckoos, but never seemed to get any closer to them and had 3 green woodpecker sightings, but too far for photos

 

However, I did manage some new birds for 2017 and a couple of new species as well.

Edited June 6, 2017 by Tdgraves

[Tdgraves]

Fen Drayton Lakes, Cambridgeshire, UK, 1/6/17

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, 1.4x extender mark iii, ISO 320, f8, 1/320, EV +1

 

 

223) Willow warbler (new species)

Edited June 6, 2017 by Tdgraves

[Tdgraves]

Fen Drayton Lakes, Cambridgeshire, UK, 1/6/17

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, 1.4x extender mark iii, ISO 640, f8, 1/2000

224) Ring ouzel (new species)

[Tdgraves]

Fen Drayton Lakes, Cambridgeshire, UK, 1/6/17

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, 1.4x extender mark iii, ISO 1600, f8, 1/3200, EV +1/3 (the sun had just come out and I hadn't changed the settings....)

 

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, 1.4x extender mark iii, ISO 500, f8, 1/2000

 

 

225) Black-billed magpie

[Tdgraves]

Fen Drayton Lakes, Cambridgeshire, UK, 1/6/17

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, 1.4x extender mark iii, ISO 1600, f8, 1/1600, EV +1 (I think I have now found the limitations of the extender...)

 

 

226) Common tern

[Tdgraves]

Fen Drayton Lakes, Cambridgeshire, UK, 1/6/17

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, 1.4x extender mark iii, ISO 800, f8, 1/500

 

 

227) Eurasian jay

[Tdgraves]

We went to a conference in Boston, USA at the end of April, but only had an iPhone as we were wandering around....

 

Boston public gardens, 27/4/17

 

iPhone 6

 

 

 

228) Common grackle (a new species for us)

[PeterHG]

That looks like a 400mm iPhone!

 

[Tdgraves]

3 minutes ago, PeterHG said:

That looks like a 400mm iPhone!

 

 

Haha - wait until you see the next two, then you won't be so impressed....

[Tdgraves]

Boston seaport, 23/4/17

 

iPhone 6

 

 

 

229) American goldfinch

[Tdgraves]

Boston seaport, 23/4/17

 

iPhone 6

 

 

 

230) House finch (also new for us)

[Tdgraves]

And a slightly less EBC one

 

Boston seaport, 23/4/17

 

iPhone 6

 

 

 

231) American robin

[Tdgraves]

And now back to the UK and one I have NEVER seen in my garden until this year!

 

Cambridgeshire, UK, 1/4/17

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, 1.4x extender mark iii, ISO 400, f8, 1/1000

 

 

232) Common starling

[Tdgraves]

After Boston, we went to Jamaica for a week of R&R. This was strictly a relaxing holiday, no day trips and definitely no bird guide. However, the hotel was on the slope of a mountain, in a nature reserve, so I had to take my camera.....

 

We have never been to Jamaica before, so these were all new for us. I'll start with the Jamaica endemics

 

San San, Jamaica, 29/4/17

 

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 640, f7.1, 1/125, EV +1/3

 

 

233) Jamaican blackbird

[Tdgraves]

San San, Jamaica, 30/4/17

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 1250, f5.6, 1/100, EV +1

 

 

4/5/17

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 2000, f5.6, 1/500

 

 

234) White-chinned thrush

[Tdgraves]

San San, Jamaica, 1/5/17

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 1250, f5.6, 1/60, EV +1

 

 

235) Orangequit

[Tdgraves]

San San, Jamaica, 3/5/17

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 4000, f5.6, 1/400

 

 

236) Jamaican becard

[Tdgraves]

San San, Jamaica, 3/5/17

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 1000, f5.6, 1/160, EV +2/3

 

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 1000, f5.6, 1/125

 

 

237) Jamaican stripe-headed tanager

[Tdgraves]

San San, Jamaica, 4/5/17

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 3200, f5.6, 1/100, EV -1/3

 

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 3200, f5.6, 1/320

 

 

3/5/17

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 800, f5.6, 1/800, EV +1/3

 

 

238) Jamaican euphonia

[Tdgraves]

San San, Jamaica, 3/5/17

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 1250, f5.6, 1/1600

 

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 1250, f5.6, 1/800, EV +1

 

 

Canon 7D mark ii, 100-400 mark ii, ISO 1250, f5.6, 1/1250, EV +1

 

 

239) Jamaican woodpecker