The koleas, or Pacific golden plovers, are getting ready to migrate. They have their new black feathers, and they’re bulking up for the long flight to Alaska.
Very nice, Dan! The kolea which hangs out in our yard doesn’t have nearly that much black yet, tho the ones which stalk around the playground at Pearl Ridge Elementary do.
How did you get so close to it for the movie? Or did you use some software to crop it? I can’t get so close to ours.
I activated the Digital Zoom on the camera. 12X optical plus 4X digital equals 48X. I figured that the graininess from the digital zoom would be removed by the reduction to the small format for the blog.
At 48X, it is very hard to hold the camera steady. When the bird ran out of the frame, I had to zoom out to find it again. I tried to edit out the worst of the bumps.
April 16th, 2008 at 5:20 am
Very nice, Dan! The kolea which hangs out in our yard doesn’t have nearly that much black yet, tho the ones which stalk around the playground at Pearl Ridge Elementary do.
How did you get so close to it for the movie? Or did you use some software to crop it? I can’t get so close to ours.
April 16th, 2008 at 7:51 am
I think the males get darker than the females.
I activated the Digital Zoom on the camera. 12X optical plus 4X digital equals 48X. I figured that the graininess from the digital zoom would be removed by the reduction to the small format for the blog.
At 48X, it is very hard to hold the camera steady. When the bird ran out of the frame, I had to zoom out to find it again. I tried to edit out the worst of the bumps.