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The Woodcock *For Argus* (42)
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![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1054 W: 59 N: 1940]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (6497) | hello, our friend Ivan (Argus) in my yesterday's posting
write me : « I have always wanted to photograph a Woodcock »
i would like dedicate to Ivan this image and wishing him
one day to had the chance to do woodcock photos
posed on ground in his natural habitat
me too (moi aussi) Ivan I have always wanted to photograph
a Woodcock on ground, before that i did some
shots in in-flight, not the best images because it is
very difficult to do such photos in the bushy woods
for the ones who come to view this image, in my yesterday's
posting i explain how i get the chance to do a photo
of the woodcock posed on ground in his natural habitat,
in my next posting i will write a little bit more on that
now i want to talk on with wish of my cameras
i did these images, if you go see it is done with
my small 3 megapixels 3X zoom compact FUJIFILM
why i did not shot the images with
my SLR-like FUJIFILM bridge camera ?
there is 2 reasons for that, my bridge does not have
image stabilzer, we where going on late afternoon,
late afternoon in the bushy woods the light is not at his best,
my shutter speed has to be low, with the bridge that
does not have image stabilzer just forget it
with my compact i don't have that problem,
if you see the shutter speed at 1/60s
i can never do that with my bridge
the other reason is that in this situation of images
i love to shoot in continious mode, click click click,
with my bridge i can do it, but in the digital viewfinder
after each click somthing dark happen in the viewfinder
and that thing it just disturb me, it is the reason why
i never shot in continious mode with my bridge
with my compact, that the viewfinder is optical and not digital
like the birdge's one, i don't have that problem and my eye is
always on the subject, now my compact do only 4 continious shots
again i dedicate this image to our great friend Ivan
wishing him one day to had the chane to photograph
the Eurasian Woodcock (scolopax rusticola) that it is bigger
than our's the American Woodcock (scolopax minor)
i have found these 3 british links on the Eurasian Woodcock
http://www.birdguides.com/html/vidlib/species/Scolopax_rusticola.htm
http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/w/woodcock/
http://www.birdcare.com/bin/showsonb?woodcock
and here is the link on the American Woodcock
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Woodcock_dtl.html
in the WORKSHOP i put another image of the banding
of the cute and beautiful baby woodcock
my next posting too will be another image of woodcocks
MERCI
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