Four of a Kind

[JimFox]

Driving back from the beach the other day in rush hour traffic I decided to take side roads instead and wandered down this road in Huntington Beach. It's a park with a little lake or pond with tons of birds. So I pulled over and grabbed the Sony A6400 and went to capture some various birds.

These are called Bufflehead Ducks I think. For sure they are ducks!

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice shots of these Canada Geese Jim. The white and black at the neck require very good exposure, ya did good here.

 

[AlanLichty]

Ducks??

Sure look a lot like Canadian Geese to me Nice gaggle of geese.

 

[JimFox]

Ducks??

Sure look a lot like Canadian Geese to me Nice gaggle of geese.

Oh man... see I said to myself... these are geese. But then I looked up online to ID them and I came back with Ducks...

I guess for now I should just shoot the photographs and let someone else help ID them...

 

[JimFox]

Nice shots of these Canada Geese Jim. The white and black at the neck require very good exposure, ya did good here.

Thanks Ben! Other then calling them Ducks I guess I did good.

 

[Ben Egbert]

You just need one of these.

https://www.amazon.com/Peterson-Wes...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=1DR68FXMMQ80SJGP2XCK

 

[JimFox]

You just need one of these.

https://www.amazon.com/Peterson-Wes...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=1DR68FXMMQ80SJGP2XCK

Yep, probably so!

 

[MonikaC]

Canadian geese are a nuisance here. I heard somewhere that one goose excretes 5# of poop a day. Adds up in athletic fields & school yards...

 

[AlanLichty]

The geese from Canada winter over in the wetlands all along the estuaries that drain into the Columbia River so we have them by tens of thousands until spring. They hang out in groups of up to a couple hundred out in grassy areas. Monica is right - things get rather messy. Slippery too.

 

[ckcarr]

You're mistaken identification is forgiven since birds are so regional!
L.A. probably doesn't have the takeover by Canadian Geese like Denver has.

The worst invasive bird right now is the Eurasian Collared Dove, which didn't even exist here 15 years ago.

I strongly recommend putting the Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab onto your smart phone. I've found it extremely valuable.
Or just on your desktop: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/

Now, what I had to look up was the Sony A6400, since I know zero about Sony gear.

 

[JimFox]

You're mistaken identification is forgiven since birds are so regional!
L.A. probably doesn't have the takeover by Canadian Geese like Denver has.

The worst invasive bird right now is the Eurasian Collared Dove, which didn't even exist here 15 years ago.

I strongly recommend putting the Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab onto your smart phone. I've found it extremely valuable.
Or just on your desktop: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/

Now, what I had to look up was the Sony A6400, since I know zero about Sony gear.

Thanks Craig!

I already made that website a Favorite so I can get back to it easily. That will be helpful.

Yeah, I knew nothing about Sony gear either until a few months ago. Hopefully Nikon comes out with a small mirrorless with a DX cropped sensor instead of the horribly small 1" sensor they had been using. The A6400 is quite the little camera and very competent for it's size.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I'm not sure how well other bird ID apps for your iPhone work but I use iBird Photo Sleuth. All you do is upload the image into your app and it identifies the bird almost instantly. I also have the iBird Pro app on my cell phone. Not only does it have images of all of the birds of North America but also has their calls which comes in handy if you are in their habit and you want to get them close enough to photograph them.

Here is a Bufflehead: It is easy to see how you could go wrong because both have a white patch on their head and you can't tell how big the birds in the image are.

 

[JimFox]

I'm not sure how well other bird ID apps for your iPhone work but I use iBird Photo Sleuth. All you do is upload the image into your app and it identifies the bird almost instantly. I also have the iBird Pro app on my cell phone. Not only does it have images of all of the birds of North America but also has their calls which comes in handy if you are in their habit and you want to get them close enough to photograph them.

Here is a Bufflehead: It is easy to see how you could go wrong because both have a white patch on their head and you can't tell how big the birds in the image are.

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Thanks Doug. Yeah it was the head marking that I went for. I didn’t pick up on the shorter neck.

I will look up those apps when I get home. I appreciate that.

 

[Nilo Photography]

Another Hummingbird. I often pass by this location where I work and there's a student who feed these Hummingbirds. She must had graduated for don't see as many birds as I used to and I see only 1 feeder instead of 3.