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  1. FlushUnderFoot

    Why do Laughing Gulls stand on one leg?

    I was at the beach yesterday and there were Laughing Gulls everywhere looking for handouts. I noticed that they like to stand on one leg. Why do they do that?
  2. FlushUnderFoot

    playing song recordings

    do most people play bird call recordings when they go birding? Matt
  3. FlushUnderFoot

    thinking about getting a 1d mkIV

    Whats the best way to go about getting a 1d mkIV? I've looked for them on a few websites and they generally don't even provide a shutter count, they just use a general grading system. So If I'm getting one online, how do I know that it works properly and that the sensor is clean, etc? What if...
  4. FlushUnderFoot

    Setup for a 28 × 36 cm (11 x 14 in) coffee table book

    Hi all, my goal is to make a book about wildlife in my area. I want it to have tons of full page photos of birds, flowers, insects, landscape shots, etc. I need your help figuring out what the ideal kit would be for the bird photos. The book will be about 28 x 36 cm (11 x 14 in) so assume that I...
  5. FlushUnderFoot

    whats the best canon lens setup for bird pics?

    for under $10,000
  6. FlushUnderFoot

    a few from Costa Rica

    I took these pics a few weeks ago in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. I'm thinking yellow warbler for the first two (same bird), don't know about the second two. Thanks!
  7. FlushUnderFoot

    unknown bird from Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

    Hi I took this picture earlier today in southern Costa Rica on the Gulf side of the Osa Peninsula. Any idea what it is? Thanks!
  8. FlushUnderFoot

    question about 8M vs 15M on the 50D

    Hi, I'm currently shooting in JPEG 15M mode on my 50D and the pictures I'm taking are ridiculously huge when I load them in photoshop - much bigger than I'll ever need so I just scale the pictures down. What I'm wondering is if I switch to 8M will that allow me to use a faster shutter speed...
  9. FlushUnderFoot

    what is it? DE, USA

    I have a nagging feeling that its just a juvenile cowbird...
  10. FlushUnderFoot

    Delaware, USA - id from a conversation

    I was talking to a friend today and he described a pair of birds that he saw in his lawn during migration one year. Here is the information I gathered: - the location is some non urban part of northern delaware, probably a neighborhood with many mature trees that is relatively close to a forest...
  11. FlushUnderFoot

    Delaware, USA 3 id's

    hi everyone, i took these pics yesterday and i believe they are three birds that i've never seen before :-) im not sure about the first one, i think its one of a handful of warblers, not sure which i think the middle one is a female chestnut sided warbler on account of the eye ring and olive...
  12. FlushUnderFoot

    Delaware, USA: downy or hairy?

    This is a female hairy right? Matt
  13. FlushUnderFoot

    Delaware USA: mating warblers?

    I saw these two prairie warblers fly past me, one chasing the other about a couple inches behind it, then they landed on the ground for a few seconds as shown in the pictures and then flew off. Did I just witness two prairie warblers mating or were they just fooling around? Matt
  14. FlushUnderFoot

    DE, USA - two id questions

    1.) If I see a flycatcher in Delaware at this time of year and I see that it flicks its tail and has no eye ring, what bird is it? or do I need more information? 2.) I keep hearing this song all the sudden (so I'm guessing its a migrant of some kind). It is a somewhat long, loud, hard, rising...
  15. FlushUnderFoot

    Delaware, USA - which wren?

    I saw this bird today. I was in a low, wet opening in the woods. It was mostly covered in grass/weeds, but was dotted with trees and thickets. Depending on where I stood there was anywhere from 0 to 4 inches of muddy standing water on the ground. This bird stayed in a lone, dense thicket the...
  16. FlushUnderFoot

    Costa Rica IDs

    Took these pics in CR in April, 2008. I think they're a sparrow and two flycatchers. What are the exact IDs?
  17. FlushUnderFoot

    300 f4 IS vs. 400 f5.6

    I've been planning on buying the Canon 400mm f5.6 lens whenever I have $1,200 to blow on camera stuff but yesterday I noticed that there is a 300mm f4 with IS for about the same price. I suspect that IS does a lot for the quality of my images since I'm a total amateur photographer, I've never...
  18. FlushUnderFoot

    whats a TC compatible with?

    can I use a teleconverter with my 70-300IS? or do teleconverters only work with prime lenses? ok i see that, for example, the canon 1.4x II TC works with some primes/zooms but not all. so my real question is do any TCs work with my canon 70-300IS lens and if so which one(s)? matt
  19. FlushUnderFoot

    Delaware, USA: field sparrow?

    Took these pics today. The area was basically a huge field in the middle of woods but the field had small patches and lines of brush/trees in it. This bird was singing from a perch about 80 feet up in the top of a tree for about 10 minutes. The sound was thick and loud, similar in quality to...
  20. FlushUnderFoot

    Delaware, male or female?

    took this pic of a parula today, is it male or female? my guide shows drawings for male and female but they look very similar, only the male seems to have a bit more black around the eye and a bit deeper orange on the breast. i'm going with male. what about you?
  21. FlushUnderFoot

    list of the taxonomy of all birds?

    I'm working on a web application for my animal photography and I need a way to start with just the genus and species and get the common name as well as the class order and family for birds, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles. Does anyone know of some good data files out there that i could use to...
  22. FlushUnderFoot

    order passeriformes

    roughly what percentage of bird species are in the order passeriformes? Matt
  23. FlushUnderFoot

    delaware, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers!

    they showed up on the scene a few days ago, then the next day suddenly there were ruby crowned kinglets. what birds will be next? whoever predicts correctly will get a prize.
  24. FlushUnderFoot

    male or female tityra?

    another one of my march 2009 costa rica pics, its definitely a masked tityra but i cant tell if its a male or female. i looked on one site and it seemed like the male's mask was more of a stark black than this one but the female's mask was more buffy than this one. i'm thinking male, or maybe a...
  25. FlushUnderFoot

    ID: Costa Rica

    im working on a site to showcase some of my bird pics and i dug this up today from march 16th, 2009 in the Osa Peninsula of CR. some kind of antshrike? my lone crappy "field guide to the wildlife of costa rica" doesn't have it.. thanks, Matt
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