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Solicitude
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Copyright: Rimantas Kisielius (rimas) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 158 W: 3 N: 554] (3877)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-06-02
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon EOS 300 D, Canon EF 28-105
Exposure: f/14.0, 1/800 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-09-02 8:52
Viewed: 897
Points: 2
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
European Starling bring maybug to the nesting-box for his hungry progeny.
Starlings have mainly black bodies and yellow bills like Blackbirds but they are smaller and fatter with more pointed heads and longer, more pointed wings. Their plumage is always speckled although in summer the markings on the breast are replaced by iridescent tones of green and blue. Juveniles start off as plain brown with a black bill and characteristic shape.
Breeds in towns, woods, parks, and on farms.

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Hi Rimas. This is not an easy shot to capture so you have done well to get the timing spot on with the bird just hanging on to the edge of the nesting box. If you stood/sat to the side of the nesting box you would get a view of the bird's face (and with the sun in the right place a catchlight in its eye). This would improve the drama of the shot a good deal. It is a good try though and you've frozen the movement well and dealt nicely with the exposure. Well done :)

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