Caught this little guy eating this block of bird food the other day. The feeder is only about 8 ft from the door and I managed to open it. Get outside. Put my camera up to my face and get in close enough to get this shot without having to crop it before he flew away.
Lovely fat little things are Robins. Some minor saturation boosting on account of the cloudy horrible day..
Sorry about the rooftop shot. Jays are incredibly twitchy. This surprised me. In my experience the smaller the bird, the twitchier they get but Jays are fairly large and they are all over the place!
I threw some nuts out of the window and he came along, so after a quick lean out of the window and firing off of a few shots I finally managed to capture the bird standing still. Still fairly blurry so i’m a little disappointed but i’m really getting into my "birding" so it’s part of the learning curve.
Caught this Cananda Goose being rude and sticking his tongue out at a passing Coot.
Perhaps he was taking the mick because it looks like someone dropped a fried egg on his face and he hadn’t noticed!
This is when he turned around and told me to leave them alone
At an Animal Park in Bolton there were a small gathering of white peacocks, all just having a little relax on the fence. I thought they had interesting facial details so I tried to get in to take some shots.
This was just after I woke one of them up.
After getting bored of balancing I imagine, the duck felt a little clean was in order.
I thought it was quite a nice sight so I took a shot.
It’s not one legged for a start, so don’t feel sorry for it. It was just practicing it’s balancing I think.
Quite a difficult spot actually, it really blended in with the ground beneath it and the little plant to the side didn’t help so some selective desaturation I think helped bring the bird into focus a little better.
This is a follow on photo from the Landing Blue Tit:
Normally the little thing would stop moving as it came and grabbed some seeds before flying away, so when it paused for a split second I was firing the shutter away. This was the best I managed to get. If you’ve shot Blue Tits before perhaps you will understand how fidgety they are!!
IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME.
But I’m back-ish.
I’ll be uploading photos I’ve been wanting to share for a long time over the coming weeks.
I’ve had a rough time through Winter, I was ill a lot and was swamped with work and alsorts but finally I have a week free and I decided to spend it bringing you dontdopea-ians up to speed.
So let’s get straight back to it:
Taken with my Sigma 180mm Macro. Set up on a tripod and remote released the shutter from indoors.
All the small birds that visit the back garden are easily spooked!
Blue tits proved to be the twitchiest birds that visit the feeders. Barely stopping for a second, as this photo demonstrates…
Some minor noise reduction, it was overcast so some sharpening was required.
Side Note: While I was sat on the step by the back door waiting for some birds to come visit, above me, along the edge of the roof were a battalion of pigeons. I think you can guess how this story ends….
Caught a few swams grooming themselves while floating around.
Tried to compose the shot so the arc of the birds neck just filled the frame.
Quite happy with it, it’s one of few “pretty bird” photos I seem to have been sharing with you lately. Just looking back at the last couple of days, it does appear as though I’ve gotten a bit of a bird fetish recently doesn’t it? I shall have to make sure this doesn’t continue in the upcoming week.