Long Billed Curlew

This Long Billed Curlew was showing off his landing and flying skills.

Taken with Canon 1DX and Canon 500mm F4 IS II with 1.4X III teleconverter mounted on Skimmer ground pod with Wimberley II head

1/800 sec @ F5.6, ISO 4000, evaluative metering, +1 exposure compensation

1/1600 sec @ F8, ISO 1600, evaluative metering, +1 exposure compensation

judysbirds

Stunning!

March 1, 2015 at 12:05 pm
Eddie Seal

Great Shot

March 1, 2015 at 12:29 pm
Tim Timmis

Thanks Judy. Always appreciate your feedback.

March 1, 2015 at 9:01 pm
Tim Timmis

Thanks Eddie for checking out my blog and commenting.

March 1, 2015 at 9:01 pm
Sheldon

Wonderful images Tim…….

March 1, 2015 at 10:36 pm
Lyle Krahn

Well that’s another fine-looking bird I’ve never seen. I like that pose.

March 2, 2015 at 3:37 pm
Tim Timmis

Thanks Sheldon. Need to drag you out there sometime.

March 7, 2015 at 8:25 pm
Tim Timmis

Thanks Lyle. You live a little far north for these birds I’d guess. Just need to make a road trip south.

March 7, 2015 at 8:27 pm
Lyle Krahn

Yes my list of places I want to see keeps growing!

March 8, 2015 at 12:23 am

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