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Golden Crowned Kinglet The amazing blurry bird…. I've been chasing these abundant, but oh so wily, tiny birds around the last, probably 10 times I've been out and this is the best photo I've managed… and it's certainly not my piece de resistance… but this is the first I've got that's better than a grey and yellow streak. They are quite wee, tend to hang about in dense underbrush or up in the tops of fir trees and they never, ever stop moving. Canada,Geotagged,Golden-crowned kinglet,Regulus satrapa Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Golden Crowned Kinglet

The amazing blurry bird…. I've been chasing these abundant, but oh so wily, tiny birds around the last, probably 10 times I've been out and this is the best photo I've managed… and it's certainly not my piece de resistance… but this is the first I've got that's better than a grey and yellow streak. They are quite wee, tend to hang about in dense underbrush or up in the tops of fir trees and they never, ever stop moving.

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    Ferdy Christant
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    Definitely a good start and an awesome species intro! The only thing to perhaps look at is your shutter speed, which is too low for most bird shots, but maybe the camera automatically selected it? Posted 10 years ago
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      morpheme
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      Lol - my main problem is me ;-) - I'm too much like my little birdy friend and don't like to stop moving. As soon as I start to get cold or bored I want to get along. At the bird sanctuary I saw an older couple with a big birder's lens - must have been a fast 800 or maybe even 1200 prime standing on the tower waiting for something. The whole 4 or 5 hours I was there, flitting around like my little friend, they were there patiently waiting for something. I don't know if they found it or not, but I could never do that... I'd go nuts and probably freeze. My photos of living beasties are pretty much all creatures that are happy enough to present themselves to me and stay put long enough to have their portraits made at a fairly close range. Posted 10 years ago
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        Ferdy Christant
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        So you're saying the slight blur in this case is from your movement, not from subject movement? If so, that can easily be avoided with some simple techniques. Two that come to mind are carrying the lens in the palm of your hand (I see many people pulling it from above) and placing the elbow of your lens-carrying hand on your hip or stomach (depending on your measurements), creating a human tripod.

        Or perhaps you're just impatient :)         Posted 10 years ago
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        Ferdy Christant
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        By the way, I myself am also a very rushed photographer. I'm trying hard to take things slower. Posted 10 years ago

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The Golden-crowned kinglet

The golden-crowned kinglet is a very small songbird. Adults are olive-gray on the upperparts with white underparts, with thin bills and short tails. They have white wing bars, a black stripe through the eyes and a yellow crown surrounded by black. The adult male has an orange patch in the middle of the yellow crown.

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Similar species: Perching Birds
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Uploaded Dec 17, 2014. Captured Dec 16, 2014 10:56 in Unnamed Road, Delta, BC V4K 3N2, Canada.
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  • X-E1
  • f/5.6
  • 1/250s
  • ISO800
  • 200mm
Captured in the fall. More fall photos.