That bathing mystery gull video is exceptional. Thanks for sharing.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome

Great choice of music for the beautiful slow mo bathing gull. :)

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it

Great slo-mo footage of the juvenile gull.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

As an amateur nature photographer who lives birds, I appreciate your work and sharing with us :)

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

beautiful, thanks so much.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

nice, i have down there twice and i always just found mallards :P you are so lucky, great video as usual!

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! 😃

Nice thank you 😀

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Welcome 😊

❤❤👍👍👌👌

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your input. 4 different species suggested to me so far. I knew it was not an easy one.

You should come to Point Pelee for warbler migration season some time! Great video as always

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

I was there in the 1990's, but not at the right time.

Very good 👍

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Hi Mike the slow motion bathing gull looks like a Thayer’s 👍 nice reel as always

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Okay thanks for that.

@of_science_and_superstition

Жыл бұрын

Correct, the dark feathers on its winged is a good sign, BTW it is merged now with Iceland Gull

@paulpugh6178

Жыл бұрын

@@of_science_and_superstition and Kumliens

The most common gull I saw while in that area was the Glaucous-wingged Gull, but I really dont know if that was your mystery gull. It has some similarities. I had too much rain to get any good photos, so I'm glad that the sun made a showing for you.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info

Nice video Mike

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Thanks Mike another lovely video always a highlight of the day 👍

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Another lovely video, thank you.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

So nice of you

Another great video from Mike!

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Thanks again!

Winter in the Pacific Northwest can be overcast a lot. The overcast is actually the hardest thing for people to get used to. I saw a Wood Duck in with the Mallards too. I love Wood Ducks. Even in fall when the males loose their colorful plumage and look more like a female they are still pretty. Pintails look very dabber to me. That is why when I found a male taking a mud bath I had to take a bunch of pictures of it. Seeing a mud covered Pintail just seemed funny. I didn’t realize that we could get closer here in North America than you can in the UK. I find this very interesting. I thought that it was common for a bird to get closer than your minimum focus distance. That is why I switched to a lens that can focus inside of 4’, just over 1 meter. Great video and I hope you enjoyed your trip.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Birds are much harder to get close to in the UK. British bird photographers discovered Florida in the 1980s and could not believe how tame birds were. The whole continent is the same.

@blutey

Жыл бұрын

@@MikeLaneFRPS Any ideas as to the approachability discrepancy between the 2 countries?

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

@@blutey no ideas.

Thanks Mike, great video again.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Very welcome

You’ve inspired a future trip for me mate! Lovely series of videos Mike. 👊🏻

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it!

Another great video, I do look forward to Saturday mornings. Since watching your videos I to have started to use video much more and as you say watching birds in slow motion is fantastic. Thanks again Mike

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

Great video and photo’s Mike 👍❤️

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Mike, Definitely enjoyed that you shared your bird photography trip to Vancouver. Good job. Cheers!

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Hi Mike. Very nice footage. I love the ducks and the other wildlife you found. Well done. Greets Stefan

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

Thank you, Mike, for another excellent video. I love photographing ducks, especially ducks in flight. There is a five-acre pond in a park very near our home. It also has some good wetlands around it to attract different types of wading birds as well several other species. Lots of photo opportunities there most of the year.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Sounds great!

Fantastic films Mike. Going out tomorrow in my new pop up hide. Cheers.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Enjoy

Wonderful as usual. If only I could get that close to British wildfowl and waders/

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Me too.

Some of my favourite Ducks mike Teal and Pintail in particular ! A good round up to the trip to North America 👍

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Sardinia next. Less rain I hope.

This was a great series. Thanks, Mike. Maybe the weather was against you but you seemed to enjoy it nonetheless.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

I love travelling.

NIce video Mike

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Sardinia next. Hopefully less wet.

@rogerhance5883

Жыл бұрын

@@MikeLaneFRPS When is the Barn Owl video coming. Loved the footage in the group.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

@@rogerhance5883 22nd April. I am way ahead of myself currently and two more being edited. Trying to learn how to do Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and that other one to create links to YT.

Why do you reckon wildlife is so much more approachable in NA? The GH6 footage just looks magical.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

I don't know. Subject often discussed with friends, but no answers.

Thanks for sharing Mike, Great video. Have you done a review on the GH6?

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

No. I do not take stills with it, only video and my knowledge of video is too low to be a reviewer. I hope the next OM camera will have 120 fps 4K and I can sell the Gh6

@MartinJSmithPhotographyUK

Жыл бұрын

@@MikeLaneFRPS Thanks for the reply Mike, was looking to get a second camera for video that's all.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Seems to be a widespread view the Gh6 is great for video. I still feel ignorant of video. Still too much I do not understand.

@MartinJSmithPhotographyUK

Жыл бұрын

I'm learning through the line-dancing videos, nothing like a badly lit hall, if you have seen my latest videos of artist.

Another video to save in my Playlist. I thought you made an interesting observation. Why do you think that you can approach wildlife more closely in Canada and the States than the UK when there is so much greater hunting pressure and urbanization, encroachment on habitat here?

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

No idea. Something British photographers talk about, but have no answer.

Smashing video Mike coincidentally I was photographing Teals in Wadebridge Cornwall yesterday. What do you think of the GH6 for stills photography accepting the fact that the bird capturing focus system is not so good? Have a good trip back.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Never use it for stills. Only video. Hopefully the next OM camera catches up on video and I will sell the Gh6. For stills the OM 1 is in a different league, frame rates and focus.

Another great video Mike. Abit of an odd question but where did you get your camping mat from, been looking round for one for a while but can only find foam ones that don’t fold up well? Thanks Ian

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

I bought mine in the 1990's while in Canada. In the U.K. camping shops sell them. See www.millets.co.uk/15898780/hi-gear-military-foam-sleeping-mat-15898780

@ianwilsonwildlifephotography

Жыл бұрын

@@MikeLaneFRPS thanks Mike will check it out. 👍

Slow motion video forgives the dulliest conditions. And it unparalleled from GH6. Not even Sony a7S III and a1 or canon R5 and R3 produces better 4K120p.

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

I don't have all these cameras to know.

Slaty-backed gull 1st summer perhaps Mike?

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your input. Now 7 species been suggested. I knew it was not an easy one!

@lorro1951

Жыл бұрын

@@MikeLaneFRPS Thanks Mike. I'm British not a Canadian but my reference is National Geographic 'Field Guide to the Birds of North America (2nd edition 1996, page 154), but it would be a rarity I think where you were. Seen more in Alaska.

Hello sir, what would be your recommendation for levelling base. I used to have leofoto butterfly style levelling base which honestly was too difficult to loosen and tighten in the field and now I'm thinking of going for bowl style adapter. Your thoughts?

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

Not something I use. My large video head is the bowl type, but I rarely adjust it.

@knowyouryoga

Жыл бұрын

@@MikeLaneFRPS Thanks 🙏🏼

Could you use some kind of spot metering for exposure instead of having to compensate quite often? I guess then the motive have to be centered in the frame?

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

I would expect to have to compensate exposure more often.

@bonilsson3161

Жыл бұрын

@@MikeLaneFRPS ok, thanks

What lens do you use in this burnaby lake regional park Is the 100mm focal length enough for this wildlife

@MikeLaneFRPS

10 ай бұрын

150-400mm lens used. Mostly at 400mm

@jamescarlos8642

10 ай бұрын

@@MikeLaneFRPS which focal length is recommend to use in wildlife photography

@jamescarlos8642

10 ай бұрын

@@MikeLaneFRPS is 24-105mm enough for wildlife photography Since I don’t have the 70-200mm or 100-400mm or 100-500mm lens

@MikeLaneFRPS

10 ай бұрын

No you need much longer such as the 100-400mm@@jamescarlos8642

Not an expert, but could the gull be a juvenile glaucous-winged gull ?

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

This is the third species suggested and I think the most likely. Thanks

@comeraczy2483

Жыл бұрын

Yes, probably glaucous-winged, from location, black bill, overall body color, and gray tail feathers. Perhaps not because the glaucous-winged often has a lighter head. Other reasonable candidates include herring, short billed, and even western gulls - all these are similar but often expected to have darker tail feathers. Overall too dark to be the much less common Iceland gull. The only certainty is that it is an epic gull-bathing slow-mo sequence!

7:07 - any idea why that is? Is it because NA is more urbanized (or more densly populated) in areas that were traditionally bird habitats and so the birds had to either "adapt or perish" to the presence of humans?

@MikeLaneFRPS

Жыл бұрын

The UK is far more crowded and built up than North America. No idea why the birds arecso tame there.

@TatraScrambler

Жыл бұрын

@@MikeLaneFRPS Yes, that's why I added "in areas that were traditionally bird habitats" because I realize this. It's a cognitive dissonance for me as well.