Hey, birders!
Aug. 28th, 2009 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
summer_jackelWant to play a round of 'identify that bird?'
The below lovely feathered thing landed near us on the second day of the trip as we were having lunch at the lower Graveyard Lake. I believe it to be a gyrfalcon, which species apparently does inhabit the high Sierras. Her flight pattern looked more like a falcon than an accipiter to me, she was about the right size, and though I wasn't able to get great pictures of her, they did sort of come out, and they look like a brown-phase gyrfalcon to me.
If it is, I will be very excited. It's a species that I love, and I have never seen either captive or in the wild. Whatever she was, she was a beautiful bird.
Other birds I spotted included a redtailed hawk, osprey, Clark's nutcracker, one little hummingbird at high elevation (calliope?) and a cute little yellowish thing that I've not had time to try to ID yet. But name for me this raptor, please.
And camera people, I am starting to get a tiny little bit less clueless and overwhelmed by my DSLR. What lenses do you like for shooting wild birds that aren't very close to you?
The below lovely feathered thing landed near us on the second day of the trip as we were having lunch at the lower Graveyard Lake. I believe it to be a gyrfalcon, which species apparently does inhabit the high Sierras. Her flight pattern looked more like a falcon than an accipiter to me, she was about the right size, and though I wasn't able to get great pictures of her, they did sort of come out, and they look like a brown-phase gyrfalcon to me.
If it is, I will be very excited. It's a species that I love, and I have never seen either captive or in the wild. Whatever she was, she was a beautiful bird.
Other birds I spotted included a redtailed hawk, osprey, Clark's nutcracker, one little hummingbird at high elevation (calliope?) and a cute little yellowish thing that I've not had time to try to ID yet. But name for me this raptor, please.
And camera people, I am starting to get a tiny little bit less clueless and overwhelmed by my DSLR. What lenses do you like for shooting wild birds that aren't very close to you?
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Date: 2009-08-28 11:57 pm (UTC)She was very exciting to see. Really pretty bird.