Here’s another one from Carcass Island in the Falklands. A blackish oystercatcher. Not much to say here, it’s an oystercatcher and it’s, well, blackish. Nikon D800 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 400, f/4 at 1/1000th of a second.
“Oystercatcher” is a pretty backhanded name for a bird. How slow do you have to be to fail at catching an oyster. Thus is like naming a bird “the blue wing-haver.”
Nice! I’ve been recently photographing its cousins on the southern coast of CT. The New England ones only have a black head with the body being brown on top and white underneath. The NE cousins also have a longer beak [maybe our oysters are harder to ‘catch’] and the legs are longer; a larger looking bird than this one.
Love the dark moody feel of this photo. Pretty monochromatic except for the orange/yellow beak, eye, and the yellow lichen at his feet. Draws the eye to explore the whole picture.
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Here’s another one from Carcass Island in the Falklands. A blackish oystercatcher. Not much to say here, it’s an oystercatcher and it’s, well, blackish. Nikon D800 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 400, f/4 at 1/1000th of a second.
“Oystercatcher” is a pretty backhanded name for a bird. How slow do you have to be to fail at catching an oyster. Thus is like naming a bird “the blue wing-haver.”
Nice! I’ve been recently photographing its cousins on the southern coast of CT. The New England ones only have a black head with the body being brown on top and white underneath. The NE cousins also have a longer beak [maybe our oysters are harder to ‘catch’] and the legs are longer; a larger looking bird than this one.
Love the dark moody feel of this photo. Pretty monochromatic except for the orange/yellow beak, eye, and the yellow lichen at his feet. Draws the eye to explore the whole picture.