Pictures from my visit to Taylor Hill Game Farm

[MinxFox]

I'm jealous of your photography, and I'm jealous of his birds, LOL

I know right!? Blue Creek keeps acting like he needs to get better at photography, but I have no idea what he is talking about. He always captures the peafowl so well. Even the varieties I don't like look good when he photographs them.

Good job I loved working with your photos because they are all so interesting.

One of my favorite photos is the very first one of the Cameo Pied split Peach and Blackshoulder Peacock calling. I have yet to get a good photo of a peacock calling and I just love how he is calling and displaying. That was a great capture.

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Thanks MinxFox! I found it easy to capture them displaying and calling, because since there were so many peacocks, they were all displaying and the calls are constant, one right after another. I think it sounds so cool when there are so many peafowl in once place! I mostly need to get better with duck and pheasant photography. They are very active birds that are not the easiest to capture.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Great pictures! Thank you for letting us use them, and many thanks to Rich Stein, too!
It will take me a while to get them all into the database.

Sorry to ask, but is there a difference between Cameo split Peach Pied and Cameo Pied split Peach?
Also, I don't know anything about WE but those IBWE boys don't seem to have any white eyes - is that a mix up or just that I have no clue???


*And by the way, you guys, please let me know if you notice that I mislabel any images or put them in the wrong category! Thank you!

 

[BYC-user-174785]

Great pictures! Thank you for letting us use them, and many thanks to Rich Stein, too!
It will take me a while to get them all into the database.

Sorry to ask, but is there a difference between Cameo split Peach Pied and Cameo Pied split Peach?
Also, I don't know anything about WE but those IBWE boys don't seem to have any white eyes - is that a mix up or just that I have no clue???


*And by the way, you guys, please let me know if you notice that I mislabel any images or put them in the wrong category! Thank you!

You're welcome. No there is not a difference. It should be Cameo Pied split Peach. I will go back and change some labels that may be confusing. That IB WE peacock has white eyes, but the only picture I took of his train and white eyes was blurry. But in the pictures you can see his white throat patch and white flights, which WE peafowl have.

 

[new 2 pfowl]

Thanks for that! I really am clueless about this stuff!

 

[BYC-user-174785]

I think it was only the Cameo Pied split peach hens that I had labeled them in a confusing way, so I changed that. If you have any more questions feel free to ask.

 

[johnskoi]

gorgeous birds and wonderful shots of them...

 

[MinxFox]

Thanks MinxFox! I found it easy to capture them displaying and calling, because since there were so many peacocks, they were all displaying and the calls are constant, one right after another. I think it sounds so cool when there are so many peafowl in once place! I mostly need to get better with duck and pheasant photography. They are very active birds that are not the easiest to capture.

Okay now I see what you are saying. Good luck with taking photos of ducks and pheasants especially. Pheasants are definitely hard to photograph. They get in just the right pose and before you take the picture they have run all the way across the pen. I would like to get good at taking photos through fencing. Some fencing is big enough to put the lens through, but I want to learn how to shoot through very small chain link for example. So many photos I took at the zoo did not turn out well because of the fencing.

 

[Peafowlssssssss]

Okay now I see what you are saying. Good luck with taking photos of ducks and pheasants especially. Pheasants are definitely hard to photograph. They get in just the right pose and before you take the picture they have run all the way across the pen. I would like to get good at taking photos through fencing. Some fencing is big enough to put the lens through, but I want to learn how to shoot through very small chain link for example. So many photos I took at the zoo did not turn out well because of the fencing.

Whatever you will do it will still be hard to get good pictures through small chain link fence!

 

[MinxFox]

Well darn. I guess I need to visit zoos with better photographing areas. The Jacksonville Zoo was great for photography. Lots of glass viewing windows and walk through aviaries.