Sandpiper?

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• bobair (5086)
• [2009-05-24 19:35]

Hi Sandra,
the bird in the foreground is a killdeer and the other one is a sandpiper.The type of sandpiper I'm not sure of but as a guess it appears to be a lessor yellow legs or maybe a solitary sandpiper.The photo is over exposed and the focus is not sharp but just the same it is good to see the two birds in the same frame.Welcome to TrekNature and thank you for sharing these shore birds that live somewhere in Toronto. Bob

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• trekks (36)
• [2009-05-25 0:22]

hi Sandra

Welcome to TN community.

This post entry of the sandpiper is very interesting shot and a good start for you to share photography here. You have done a nice job to get 800pixel, perhaps you can resize to max 300kb for better resolution.

It is always difficult, as I had tried it myself, to get a good shot of these birds out of the mud because of the same color tone to the body, it is not easy to distinguish your subject. One way of course is to wait for very good light condition to differentiate them apart and that is by no means easy too - you have to get diagonal light.

Sharpness is an important factor for this kind of shot. Get focus on the bird, even if in motion. Sometimes if the focus ring keeps moving, set to manual after focus.

Sometimes I would wait until they get to the water and use light or reflection to isolate the birds, but so far in Malaysia bird shots are not easy to do.

Not really up to par for 2 points, but I am willing to give you some good encouragement.

tfs, bill