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Whimbrel in Flight
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Cheers Noely,
Taken from the end of Westport Pier in Mayo. The saturation of reds and yellows has been brought up and the other colours removed.
Slan MJ
Good colours. Seems to be sharper on the wings that the head though ? Maybe thats
just the size of the image or something.Personally as a wildlife photograph, I’d prefer to see everything in full colour.
Cheers Mark,
The original colours are below. Light on the day was very poor, hence the lack of full sharpness and full colour saturation. As you can see there isn’t a huge differece between the two. The shots were taken with a 20D and a 300mm F4 IS. I took some further shots with a 1.4x extender and they were rubbish with the light being so poor.
MJ
You know, I prefer the full colour one, water isn’t that bad in terms of colour.
Beautiful bird.I was wondering what they were called. I saw a few down in Tacumshin Lake in Wexford on Saturday. Great shot BTW.
Cheers Joe,
They are common enough this time of the year like a small version of a curlew with a slightly shorter bill. The light was poor that day last week but the bird was quite approachable. If I had had a little bit more time I could have probably got a better shot. I need to put the time in.
MJ
griangraf wrote:
Cheers Joe,
They are common enough this time of the year like a small version of a curlew with a slightly shorter bill.
MJHow else can you tell between them? Or is that it?
Lovely capture BTW, well done.
Pete they are tough enough to separate. The size difference is noticable. The whimberl is a 3/4 size curlew. If you see them with other waders e.g. oystercatchers they are about the same size. The bill is slightly less pointed than the Curlew and the proportion of bill length to body length to also less. These is also less of a curve in the bill. The thing is I reckon they are far more common than people think because of their similarity to the curlew and also the recent effects of climate change. They used to be a migrant. Now I reckon they are overwintering particularly along the south coast.
Slan MJ
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