[GlennBartley]

2023 was a great year of bird photography! I feel so lucky to get to travel to incredible places and see these unbelievably beautiful birds.

Here are a few of my favourites from a memorable year of photography that I hope you will enjoy

If you'd like to see my full "Best of 2023" gallery you can find it here - https://www.glennbartley.com/naturephot ... 02023.html


Red-necked Tanager


Velvet-purple Coronet


Hyacinth Macaw


Adelie Penguin


Blue-tufted Starthroat

Puma


Gentoo Penguin


Red-tailed Comet


Snow Petrel


Toco Toucan


Baltimore Oriole


Vermilion Cardinal

[GMcD]

Thanks Glenn, always an inspiration seeing what you post, as well as your Youtubes. Being a humble JPG shooter with budget equipment, I can only hope to use your examples to try to improve the artistic side of bird photography and get more than just snapshots.

[GMcD]

I've put together an Album on Flickr of my best photos of 2023. Some things to note - I shoot JPEG, I have an elderly Windows 7 computer and use a free download (Picasa 3) for photo editing. My photo editing is mainly cropping/straightening, some highlite/fill light, sometimes some saturation, and a degree of sharpening. I don't have access to high end photo processing software so there is no "photoshopping" of branches, backgrounds or any other photo manipulation. These photos are pretty well "reality", with the above noted photo editing tweaks.

Camera and lens is the Canon 90D, 32mp crop sensor, with a Tamron 150-600mm G2 lens.

This first set is "birds on sticks".

American Goldfinch08 May26_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Yellow Rumped Warbler46 Apr24_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Yellow Rumped Warbler12 May03_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

White Crowned Sparrow15 June16_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Tree Swallow03 June01_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Song Sparrow04 Oct01_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Says Phoebe13 Apr24_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Savannah Sparrow05 June06_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Savannah Sparrow03 Apr27_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Red Winged Blackbird06 Oct06_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Pacific Wren10 Nov29_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Orange Crowned Warbler08 Apr28_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Mountain Bluebird38 Apr16_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Lincolns Sparrow11 Sept20_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Greater Yellowlegs16 Oct22_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

GBH Dawn06 Nov01_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Dawn Dowitchers03 Oct31_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Coopers Hawk10 Nov24_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Common Yellowthroat32 Apr27_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Common Merganser female04 Nov05_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Cedar Waxwing03 Nov0_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Bushtit04 Dec31_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Annas Hummingbird05 Mar12_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

American Pipit49 Sept14_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

[GMcD]

Here is a set of my best Raptors of 2023. Same preamble as noted above.

Short Eared Owl27 Mar06_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Short Eared Owl19 Mar06_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Short Eared Owl10 Dec08_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Short Eared Owl05 Dec08_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Osprey50 Aug30_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Osprey41 Aug30_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Northern Harrier84 Dec31_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Northern Harrier81 Dec31_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Northern Harrier49 Dec31_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Northern Harrier45 Nov24_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Northern Harrier35 Dec31_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

[GMcD]

Here is a set of my best "birds in flight" shots of 2023. Same preamble as above regarding photo processing and camera kit.

Western Sandpiper49 Sept17_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Western Sandpiper44 Sept17_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Snow Geese56 Oct28_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

This one of the Snow Geese above should be a 1,000 piece puzzle!

Snow Geese40 Oct25_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Northern Pintail15 Feb10_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Long Billed Dowitchers05 Aug16_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Green Wing Teal21 Mar29_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

GBH11 Oct27_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

GBH04 Aug03_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

GBH03 June23_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Gadwall01 Apr12_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Dunlins22 Jan29_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Dawn Geese02 Nov21_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Cormorant03 June23_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

[GMcD]

And here is the last set - waterfowl, shorebirds, and misc. subjects.

Whimbrel05 Sept08_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Western Sandpiper20 Sept17_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Western Sandpiper18 Aug24_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Surfbird06 Sept17_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Semipalmated Sandpiper06 Aug08_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Ring Necked Pheasant20 June07_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Pied Billed Grebe05 Nov01_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Mallard29 Nov23_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Lesser Yellowlegs15 Oct08_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Lesser Yellowlegs13 Aug10_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Least Sandpiper36 Aug08_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Killdeer14 Aug14_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Killdeer juv46 Aug24_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Green Winged Teal15 Feb26_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

GBH35 Sept30_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

GBH23 Aug16_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Gadwall18 Dec30_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Bushtits Bath11 Nov17_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Bufflehead16 Dec12_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

Bairds Sandpiper13 Aug08_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr

American Widgeon14 Dec08_2023 by GMcD2008, on Flickr