Recent Birds … …............. WhyNot …........... 6/14/23

Actually from yesterday .. I've stopped ProCap play for a while while I process those files still in RAW form, evaluate what I'm doing and listen to others here and there about the process …. So birds as I found them … A finch on a branch ..

A young Red Breasted Woodpecker

The adult Red Breasted Woodpecker …

A couple Blue Jays over my head ...

A Female Cardinal ;....

The Male Cardinal

A robin having a particularly bad morning ...

I know how she feels .. I think I'll go get some more coffee ….

WhyNot

A nice set WN. I particularly like one and three.

Looking at these for some reason has triggered in what is left of my brain a question of how birds' brains interpret what they see. Like many other creatures they have eyes located on opposing sides of their faces. This should give them better peripheral vision. On the other hand the amount of overlap seen by the two eyes must be less and that should impact their depth perception for things not straight ahead. Owls have flatter 'faces' and do not fall into this category though.

I need another coffee!

Andrew

Nice selection of birds WN. I agree with Andrew, #1 & #3 seem the best captures.

Lovely WN I especially like the woodpecker 👍

Thnaks Andrew .. S ome birds just to make things even more interesting, can see intot he UV range and some produce specifiaclly UV feathewrs during mating season .... Wikipedia has a good discussion about Bird Vision -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_vision --

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Thanks for stopping by and the critique, Jim .............

maybe you or Andrew could elaborate on why 1 & 3 are better than the others? Composition of some sort, lighting, apparent sharpness????

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Thanks for stopping by, Paul ... maybe stay around long enough for coffee or tea ...

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A very interesting read WN. Who knew that bird's vision had been so thoroughly researched!

Andrew

A nice set, WhyNot. I like the chubby finch and the adult woodpecker best. Rich

I like the male cardinal best, WN, even though he looks a bit grumpy.

David

I suspect there are more than a few PhDs being handed out for these studies ... BTW there are also similar discussions of Dragonfly vision and probably a few other assorted animals and insects .. certainly snakes !! ...

WhyNot

Thanks for stopping by, Rich .. maybe you could explain what the attraction is over my poor Robin who has been worn ragged feeding all those young ones ...

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Thanks for stopping by and the comment, David ... much appreciated ..( I need to go through the files for another Canon picture) .... and not sure he's grumpy as much as just old and tired of feeding another batch of young ones that he'll just chase off in a few days ...

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