eurasian curlew

Lakescape - 668 Presence of dense fog ... and low lighting gave this image a pencil sketch appearence ... _________ Eurasian Curlew Gurgaon Haryana India 1 December 2015

This is a continuation on my posting on 25 February, here the crab is a bit better to see. It took 36 seconds from the extraction of the crab from the boulders, this image is taken at the moment of 26 seconds. Just before this moment the bird lost the crab, but took it back soon. In a later...

Seen on my daily walk along the Thames estuary

Courlis cendré Numenius arquata Eurasian Curlew

One of several curlew around

Curlew

This one's my favorite of the Curlew shots. I love the light turning its wings into latticework, or maybe "Hardangersm" embroidery. I also love the open bill; the Curlews' calls are so mystical-sounding.

After our walk around Veidholmen, we drove back to the center of the island. Our former neighbors and good friends who used to live across the street from us have a summer home there and had invited us to dinner. It's her childhood home on the farm her parents cleared (by draining the peat bogs...

the bird with the whitish tail on the left is a Eurasian curlew. There's also a (bar-tailed) godwit in the back on the left.

Last Curlew shot for today.

Another one from the weekend. We're getting to the end of the Curlew shots now, maybe one more to go :)

Another one testing the 600 with x2. Even though it's a powerful combination, you still have to get reasonably close to birds to get them large in the frame.

More experimentation with the 600mm with 2x converter.

Messing about with the 2x converter on the 600mm F4L IS. Conclusion: A bit hit and miss, works OK for web size photos.

Eurasian Curlew. Bassin de Gouzon ( Creuse), yesterday.