Wings of White

Very rarely do I get a decent shot of one of the birds landing.
The other day while I was cleaning and Malio was gathering pine needles for Sadie I was finally successful.

Then . . .
I turned around and Samantha was landing in her area.
Success once again. I was pleased!!

they're so beautiful
great captures

rattyfied.
That will probably be it for a while.

Absolutely beautiful. That white is soooo white.

How lucky to have your camera open a poised at the right time Very rarely happens that way.

Janet

Janet.
What I do in these cases is focus the camera where I know they are going to land. As soon as they are in the sight of my lens I click and hope for the best.

You should see some of my clicks, where I have hoped for the best.

rattyfied wrote:

they're so beautiful
great captures

Hello Fancyfeathers:

Very lovely pair. I see in your picture the green carpet/rug thing on their cage floor. What is it? My pijjies love to peck on my chair's fine hairy fabric and also on the fur rug which I keep aside when they're out of cage since Piggy vomited those furs once. It's good she vomited the fur or else I would not know they had been constantly pecking on it which obviously is dangerous to their system.

Id like to put something safe on their cage where they could play or peck on.

Thanks,

Tech

Fancyfeathers wrote:

Very rarely do I get a decent shot of one of the birds landing.
The other day while I was cleaning and Malio was gathering pine needles for Sadie I was finally successful.

Hello Fancyfeathers:

Very lovely pair. I see in your picture the green carpet/rug thing on their cage floor. What is it? My pijjies love to peck on my chair's fine hairy fabric and also on the fur rug which I keep aside when they're out of cage since Piggy vomited those furs once. It's good she vomited the fur or else I would not know they had been constantly pecking on it which obviously is dangerous to their system.

Id like to put something safe on their cage where they could play or peck on.

Thanks,

Tech

Tech wrote:

Hello Fancyfeathers:

Very lovely pair.

I see in your picture the green carpet/rug thing on their cage floor. What is it?
Thanks,

Tech

Thank you, Tech.

It's a piece of indoor/outdoor carpet.
I have a piece on each of the 'pairs' perching area within the aviary.
It works great.

Fancyfeathers wrote:

Janet.
What I do in these cases is focus the camera where I know they are going to land. As soon as they are in the sight of my lens I click and hope for the best.

I usually just click like mad and hope I get one or two good shots.

Jenaka wrote:

Fancyfeathers wrote:

Janet.
What I do in these cases is focus the camera where I know they are going to land. As soon as they are in the sight of my lens I click and hope for the best.

I usually just click like mad and hope I get one or two good shots.

I scold them like yell at them to behave, stay still, to get a good shot :WHAT?: Nobody hears me.

Jenaka wrote:

Fancyfeathers wrote:

Janet.
What I do in these cases is focus the camera where I know they are going to land. As soon as they are in the sight of my lens I click and hope for the best.

I usually just click like mad and hope I get one or two good shots.

Normally that's what I do as well, Jen.

Tech wrote:

Jenaka wrote:

I usually just click like mad and hope I get one or two good shots.

I scold them like yell at them to behave, stay still, to get a good shot :WHAT?: Nobody hears me.

Good luck telling a pigeon to stay still while you take a picture of them, and have them do it.
If your birds are anything like mine, they are going to do what they darn well please.
I have gotten some really good 'stay still' shots, but it was just pure luck. It had nothing to with them them cooperating.

Marvellous pictures, Cindy
I haven't even tried until today to catch them landing or while in flight because I would need a lot of time standing at the balustrade to wait for the right moment but it's definitely in my plan.
I need some warmer temperatures - at the moment it is simply too cold... :eek:

pigeonwriter wrote:

Marvellous pictures, Cindy
I haven't even tried until today to catch them landing or while in flight because I would need a lot of time standing at the balustrade to wait for the right moment but it's definitely in my plan.

I need some warmer temperatures - at the moment it is simply too cold... :eek:

You're exactly right, Petra.
I've stood in one spot for so long that my arms get tired. But I just keep thinking, "OK any second now".

That would definitely be not work for me either.

Lovely pics Cindy

priya.
I love photographing my birds as well as the feral flock.