28 August 2011

Bar-winged Cinclodes


Near an open-fronted stall that sold colas and food, birds of several species scampered about, gleaning morsels from the ground. I managed to photograph a couple, and I'm fairly sure this is a Bar-winged Cinclodes (Cinclodes fuscus), typical of the páramo grasslands.



[20 August 2011 (Ecuador), Panasonic Lumix GH1, 100–300 mm at 300 mm, ISO 200, 1/320 at f5.6]

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5 comments:

  1. Zhoen28 August 2011 at 11:13

    Dull colored, brilliantly detailed. As usual, you find such beauty in birds.

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  2. Relatively Retiring28 August 2011 at 18:51

    Exactly, Zhoen, and a sense of 'personality' too.

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  3. pohanginapete29 August 2011 at 00:21

    Zhoen, RR — thank you :^)

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  4. Avus2 September 2011 at 08:38

    Perfectly focussed, Pete. Do you use any form of steady at 300mm? I cannot image you had time or space for a tripod.

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  5. pohanginapete4 September 2011 at 01:29

    Avus, the 100–300mm (the equivalent of 200–600mm on a full-frame 35 mm sensor) includes image stabilisation. It's good, but not as good as that on the Canon 300mm (which I longed for, particularly on the jungle trip). But the big Canon and a tripod were out of the question for this trip.

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