I went out looking for a Palm Warbler that had been photograhped at this location, and also for a Calliope Hummingbird. After a couple hours of wandering around I didn't find either. I did however get some good shots of a Red-breasted Sapsucker that was at eye level, and of a Flycatcher.
I had just listened to the American Birding Association Podcast episode "07-14" about a new book "Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Empidonax and Pewees," and bought the book, so I took tons of photos of the flycatcher and listened for any calls it might make. I watched it for a while, and it was silent of course, but it moved around to several different perches and I got some clean shots of it. I was able to use the book to ID it as a Hammond's Flycatcher, a new lifer.
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7:40AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Orange-crowned Warbler
8:42AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Red-breasted Sapsucker
8:42AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Red-breasted Sapsucker
8:42AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Red-breasted Sapsucker
8:43AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Red-breasted Sapsucker
9:04AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Hammond's Flycatcher
9:05AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Hammond's Flycatcher
9:08AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Hammond's FlycatcherI experimented a lot with this photo. While most of the bird is sharp in this exposure, the head is a bit soft. A few exposures later, I have one where the bird hasn't moved and its head is the most in focus. I tried "focus stacking" those two exposures using Photoshop to combine the sharp head and the sharp body in one image. I experimented stacks with and without using DxO PureRAW, and with and without Lightroom's new machine learning denoise feature. After all the experimentation, I decided I liked this one single exposure the best, which was processed with the normal workflow: first with DxO PureRAW's denoise and "soft" sharpening, followed by a gentle sharpen with Topaz Sharpen AI's "motion" model.
9:08AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Hammond's Flycatcher
9:08AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Hammond's Flycatcher
9:08AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Hammond's Flycatcher
9:08AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Hammond's FlycatcherThis shot shows the relatively long primary extensions compared to the relatively short tail, which appears to be the easiest way to distinguish this bird from a Dusky Flycatcher.
9:08AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Hammond's Flycatcher
9:08AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Hammond's Flycatcher
9:08AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Hammond's Flycatcher
9:09AM Sunday April 23, 2023
Hammond's Flycatcher
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