Local Birds

[Isac]

#1 - Ibis scrounging for tucker.

#2 - Laughing Dove on the hand rail.

#3 - Pacific black duck escorting the babies away from the ravens, who pick the little ones off quite regularly.

[HansE]

Hard to like an Ibis. Can only admire them for getting stuck into cane toads, Good picture though. The dove has a strong presence and I like as well it does feel like it has a lot of noise reduction or am I seeing things?

[wigz]

The Ibis is fine but such a common and rather ugly bird needs something special in light or behaviour to get your attention.

The dove looks really good Isac, although there looks to be some softness in the neck and breast, but the eye and legs look fine. Perhaps noise reduction as Hans suggested.

The ducklings are very cute. they do have a very high attrition rate.

[Isac]

Hard to like an Ibis. Can only admire them for getting stuck into cane toads, Good picture though. The dove has a strong presence and I like as well it does feel like it has a lot of noise reduction or am I seeing things?

Thanks Hans. The dove looks OK in the original larger image. I'm not sure what happened in the posted image.

The Ibis is fine but such a common and rather ugly bird needs something special in light or behaviour to get your attention.
The dove looks really good Isac, although there looks to be some softness in the neck and breast, but the eye and legs look fine. Perhaps noise reduction as Hans suggested.
The ducklings are very cute. they do have a very high attrition rate.

Cheers Alan. I'm not sure why the chest area on the dove looks soft, other than it could be they are very smooth feathers and lack detail. Some patches are full of detail and other parts are very smooth.

[MJ224]

A Glossy one arrived in the UK (in numbers) this year. Sorry about the IQ,...:-)

[wigz]

A much more attractive bird. I don't see a lot of them here. The dark, glossy colour can be difficult to photograph under some conditions.

[avkomp]

good work on all of these.
that dove is sensational too. great shot even with man made perch.
well done

[Isac]

Thanks Stephen. Man made perches are a constant here in suburbia