Sick White Winged Dove
Submitted by oncidiumfan on Fri, 2012/02/03 - 19:51.
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Lola was barking up the wall at something. I figured cat or lizard and went out to find this. The only way I knew it was alive was that it was blinking. Whatever the problem was, either a predator came back for it or it managed to recover and fly away. Taken with the Canon P&S for the zoom range.
Actually looks
Young not sick.
Maybe, but it wasn't moving except to blink
Young birds tend to leave the next actually bigger than their parents (especially pigeons/doves and hawks and falcons).
This one didn't move with the dog jumping up at it and didn't move when I showed up or when I went back to get the camera.
Rebecca Brown
You're rght
there must be an outbreak of bird flu or some killer virus in Jinotega that will eventually find its way to humans.
Maybe she meant "Sick" as in Awesome!
As in "That surf board is sick dude"
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Who needs Spanish anyway
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The wing on the far side seems slightly dislocated.
I don't know if the bird was carrying it high to avoid the barbed wire or if it had gotten free from a cat (feathers seem a bit rumpled) or hawk (haven't seen those around here, but have seen caracaras on the river and creek and I'm close to the creek).
Rebecca Brown
What do i know
Everything you describe tells me it is a clumsy young bird with some of its baby feathers still showing clearly in picture. But what do I know, you are much older than I am and therefore you must be right. If I am wrong, I hope you did not catch whatever it had.
I've seen young birds that were out of the nest
They're generally a bit more active than this one was. It was also on the wall by the road, which suggests that it could have been hit (young or not). Couldn't find it later.
It's also possible that Lola got it on the ground, but not hard enough to kill it.
I thought it was dead when I first saw it.
Rebecca Brown
Nice picture! That was with
Nice picture! That was with a P&S? I am jealous! I must have good thru a half a dozen cameras in the past year trying to find something I like! I have gotten a couple DSLR's but found I wouldn't carry them around as they were too big and heavy, then tried the four/thirds things and they too ended up being too big! So I was told the Canon S95 was the best P&S but I just am not getting pictures like that! Please tell me what camera you have and did you have it one a tripod or have it stabalized or what?
The camera is a PowerShot SX120 IS
It's got image stabilization but the shutter speed was also fast. I got the store demo for around $200; I think it's now out of production. It's got a 1 to 10 optical zoom. I also was very close to the bird, had to back the zoom down a little to get a full frame of the bird and context (like I said, a sick or hurt bird). Most of the time, you won't get that close to any wild bird unless it's been trapped or netted.
The shot was 1/1000 second at f/4.3, which is wide open for the zoom at 60 mm. Try to keep the shutter speed up.
You don't have the same reach with the S95 that I have with the SX120. 60mm on the SX120 is the equivalent of 300mm on a full frame 35 mm camera. You're working with an equivalent of 105mm, so while that's a good portrait length, it's not really going to get you birds (I've got an equivalent zoom for my Panasonic Lumix GF1). This one also has a slightly faster lens at the long end -- f/4.3 rather than f/4.8. Your will shoot raw; mine only shoots .jpg. I run everything through Adobe Lightroom 3.
Amazon has used and new SX120s for sale through an affiliate, if you want to try longer zooms. Also, there's often sample variation in the cheaper cameras. I bought the one I shot with trying it out, but that was because they didn't have any more at the store.
Rebecca Brown
Real
Just look.....