Sublime and Beautiful Sunday a few Bird shots

This post is for #SublimeSunday, inspired by @c0ff33a, and #BeautifulSunday is initiated by @ace108.

For today's post, I thought I would slip in a few shots of birds. I do like trying to catch OK photos of birds, but honestly, I do not do it much for a couple of reasons.

One being when I go out early morning for most of my walks, the light is not ideal for bird shots, especially with them flying as you need a fast shutter speed to catch them clearly, and with low light, that also means high ISO, which can make the images grainy and noisy.

And secondly, for my early morning walks, I mostly take wider-angle lenses, my Tamron Pair the 17-28 and 28-75, lenses not really suited for birding.

But i have gone out a couple of mornings also taking my longer lens the tamron 50-400mm which is OK for birding, not as good as my big Sony 200-600, but that is a beast, so I generally only taken it out if I am specifically going birding during the day which I havent tried this year yet.

Now I took the 50-400 with me a couple of times hoping to catch shots of the Osprey flying from its nest which can be seen from on the Harbor walk on top of the Hurricane barrier wall, but the two times I have been there, the Osprey were chilling and taking it easy in the nest so I didnt catch any shots of them.

But I have got a few bird shots, and here they are

Starting with this Egret, they are often near the Hurricane Barrier wall Heading out by Popes Island here in New Bedford, but they dont let me get to close before they fly away as this one did

^{Sony A7iv 112mm F5.6 1/20o0 Sec ISO 2500
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Here is it again standing looking over the water.

^{Sony A7iv 214mm F6.3 1/2000 Sec ISO 5000
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Next up is a Double-crested Cormorant, unlike most waterbirds their wings are not waterproof and that is why you may see them standing with wings spread drying out their feathers.

^{Sony A7iv 390mm F11 1/125 Sec ISO 100
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and here is another one in the water

^{Sony A7iv 400mm F11 1/125 Sec ISO 100
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And to finish off another Egret, this one was taken when I walked out to the oBservation dect at he Ocean Farm reserve in Dartmouth

^{Sony A7iv 400mm F8 1/250 Sec ISO 100
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And that’s all folks

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Sublime and Beautiful Sunday a few Bird shots