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Preferred seed-=-A real Beauty

A Female Cardinal High in The canopy chooses Her Natural seeds over the Sunflower Seeds I take to feed the little guy,s and Gals. The Hendrie Valley Trail offer...
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A Female Cardinal High in The canopy chooses Her Natural seeds over the Sunflower Seeds I take to feed the little guy,s and Gals. The Hendrie Valley Trail offers the Hiker at some points a raised walkway, Grindstone creek that has a Salmon run every Late October, and also the Huge Osprey or red Tail hawks that scoop up these Giant Lake Salmon, a great Opportunity for the Photographer with Long Lens and Cameras that can capture Birds in flight, I find a 600mm lens is as Big as you need, My Daily lens is a 300mm and am finding its wonderful glass for crisp shots, just not the distance grabber you need for hopeful shots I plan to achieve.When I arrived on the Hike The sun was just coming over the Horizon, and was not enough light to get the shots I hoped,
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NIKON D7100

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Aperture f/5.6 ISO 320 Shutter 1/60 Focal Length 300/1

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Nov, 2015

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a real beauty! Congrats on this shot!!

Thanks Doris, she is my Favorite The natural sunrise light really makes HER shine

Stunning , we don't get these birds in England .

Thank you very much, I appreciate your Kind Comments Amanda

Thank you Connie I appreciate your comments :)

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love the texture, good balance, gives me a sense of a physical connection with this piece.... obviously a real great piece of art and fotography.....

Thank you Richard much appreciated

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Beautiful Cardinal and background

Very Kind of you Joyce-Thank you

This is one of the most beautiful captures I have seen....

Thank you very Much Charles-I appreciate that

This is a stunning capture!

I thank you very Much Debra

Beautifully composed

Thank you Ed, I appreciate your comment very much

I absolutely love these colors & the lighting is perfect!

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Really an outstanding image Doug.The colors are exceptional and the lighting to die for. Great capture.

Thank you Michael, took about 1/2 hour for sun to get high enough to bring red-out from branches, much appreciated

Thank you Rhonda, as trying to get contrast from branches, it worked better than could have imagined, well, made bird out of focus and focal point is between twigs and bird

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Lovely red hues.