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robbobert — Eastern Phoebe

Published: 2010-02-02 23:52:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 438; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 13
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Description An Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) sits perched in a juniper tree out over the Pedernales River at Pedernales Falls State Park in Texas.

I suck at identifying birds on the fly (altohugh I'm getting better of late), so this was more for identification purposes than anything. The bird's pose was wonderful though, so I cropped it down, and here you have it.
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Comments: 3

ChatPingIsLegend [2010-02-03 23:03:57 +0000 UTC]

absolutely beautiful! such a simple little bird lovely detail and capture of light too!!!

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robbobert In reply to ChatPingIsLegend [2010-02-04 07:21:20 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. It's one of the very few decent bird photos I've gotten outside of a zoo to this point. I need a longer lens and/or a teleconverter to get closer to them, but I don't have the $4000 to blow on a decent long lens.

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ChatPingIsLegend In reply to robbobert [2010-02-04 08:23:11 +0000 UTC]

well its an absolutely fabulous shot! yeah, i've come to the conclusion my telephoto lens just isn't enough haha!

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