ecokid: Crikey, you managed to take a photo of a blue tit. It's very difficult to photograph them. Today, I saw one darting here and there and I just could not capture it. Very elusive but beautiful bird!
aym280 - I know what you mean about trying to photograph these lightning fast bluetits. I recently upgraded to a decent camera and am just learning to use it - I've always wanted to capture one of those great 'in flight' shots of a bluetit. No such luck yet. My best chances have come from watching where they fly to just before they go to the bird pole. My last year's Christmas tree, which I meant to saw up, is still lying against a fence and I've left it there as the birds always land on it before going to the feeders on the bird pole. They seem to ponder there a few seconds before hitting the feeder and so I manage to get some 'still' photos if I'm patiently waiting for them. Otherwise - they're just maddeningly fast gymnasts who test my patience! But great fun to watch.
Thanks for comment on the pic Dove. I get about 1 in 5 in focus as they are so fast! But it's fun. I could watch birds for hours.
We've had no fledglings of any kind (Edinburgh) so far this year in the garden. Behind on last year when there was a nice mix around the garden. I'm hoping to see some soon. Lovely to see the other photos of fledglings. It's so uplifting.
Robins fledged today and I don't think it will be too long til my last little family of blue tits leave. Its been a great year for my nest boxes. Speaking of which, more than 20 years ago I bullied two of my brothers into putting up one of those RSPB house martin nests on the side of my house where they had nested before but it traumatised me by the nest falling off the wall. Has the nest box been used - has it heck - and I dread the perennial question from my brothers about its use.
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ecokid: Crikey, you managed to take a photo of a blue tit. It's very difficult to photograph them. Today, I saw one darting here and there and I just could not capture it. Very elusive but beautiful bird!
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aym280 - I know what you mean about trying to photograph these lightning fast bluetits. I recently upgraded to a decent camera and am just learning to use it - I've always wanted to capture one of those great 'in flight' shots of a bluetit. No such luck yet. My best chances have come from watching where they fly to just before they go to the bird pole. My last year's Christmas tree, which I meant to saw up, is still lying against a fence and I've left it there as the birds always land on it before going to the feeders on the bird pole. They seem to ponder there a few seconds before hitting the feeder and so I manage to get some 'still' photos if I'm patiently waiting for them. Otherwise - they're just maddeningly fast gymnasts who test my patience! But great fun to watch.
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Lovely pic!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for comment on the pic Dove. I get about 1 in 5 in focus as they are so fast! But it's fun. I could watch birds for hours.
We've had no fledglings of any kind (Edinburgh) so far this year in the garden. Behind on last year when there was a nice mix around the garden. I'm hoping to see some soon. Lovely to see the other photos of fledglings. It's so uplifting.
Here's a pic I managed to take last year. Unfortunately the box didn't get used this year.
What a brilliant picture. Made me smile!
Robins fledged today and I don't think it will be too long til my last little family of blue tits leave. Its been a great year for my nest boxes. Speaking of which, more than 20 years ago I bullied two of my brothers into putting up one of those RSPB house martin nests on the side of my house where they had nested before but it traumatised me by the nest falling off the wall. Has the nest box been used - has it heck - and I dread the perennial question from my brothers about its use.
Well the answer should be...."no you didn't put it up right"!!
Still no sign of my coal tits. They're going to be the size of ostriches by the time they come out.
The gold finches are going mad at the dandelions I left for them. Tried to take a pic but they scarpered!
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Picture in my head of Hulk sized chick bursting out of the wall and leaving a sort of Desperate Dan outline!
Nice one pp. Best excuse I've ever heard for not digging up the weeds.
D'ya like that Steve?
I've treated everwhere else but I left a wee patch outside the sunroom so that I can watch them.
HaHa that's what It's going to be like LB. An ostrich shaped hole in my good wall!