Some pictures I took recently

keps

A couple from today

dipper


female blackbird

pied wagtail

From a few days ago – wasn’t sure if it was a wren or a dunnock- plumping for dunnock


dunnock

Hotei

Golden Plover












Sundown:

keps

@hotie

Love all - but that Golden Plover shot is amazing:)

Hotei

keps wrote: »

@hotie

Love all - but that Golden Plover shot is amazing:)

Thanks keps.
That sort of scene is something I see quite often on the Curragh during the winter. They're quite nervous birds, and it doesn't take much for them to take to the air. Peregrine falcons have been known to prey on this flock. I've also seen Rooks pestering them. They're gorgeous looking birds, particularly when the sun is shining on them. I can never get close enough to them though!

fin12

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today


chaffinch

Isambard

a couple from today, not really sure what they are :-) help appreciated.

Isambard

Best I could manage of this guy, he wouldn't keep still. Common Teal I thnk

OpenYourEyes

Isambard wrote: »

a couple from today, not really sure what they are :-) help appreciated.

Greenshank and Black-tailed Gowdit!

keps

dipper

keps

this morning -


robin

keps

hope I'm not overextending my welcome.. one last one from this morning


grey heron

Hotei

keps wrote: »

hope I'm not overextending my welcome....

Keep them coming keps!
That's a great close-up.

gzoladz

I knew the shot was not even average, but when I saw it on the tablet I discovered that the buzzard had a kill and was being stalked by a second buzzard.

Last two shots are yellowhammers. I was pleasantly surprised to see so many, albeit very far.

I should check with BWI if they had a good breeding season last year.

keps

This morning
The light was actually a bit too harsh

kingfisher


long tailed tit

For those who may be interested, the above 2 shots were taken with the 150-600mm zoom fully extended on a full frame camera - which gives a true 600m view.

When I started out this morning, I tried for the first time putting the zoom on an older DX camera - which effectively increases the focal length by 50% so that the fully extended zoom becomes 900mm!

The photo below was taken this way... pleased enough with the outcome and might try it again

kingfisher1

gzoladz

Nice pics! Very gentle for the kingfisher to wait for you to change the body ��

Hotei

mirandatour

cool photos

keps

a bit of a cliché pic

robin

OpenYourEyes

keps wrote: »

a bit of a cliché pic

I'd rather a good picture of a common bird than a bad picture of an uncommon bird! Sharp, colourful, perfect use of depth and rule of thirds - lovely photo!

keps

@OYE

Thanks for that..as a total non-expert 'twitcher' I get doubts at times as to what is good or not birdwise.

Was playing around today with the Tamron 150-600 lens on the old body which, as I mentioned yesterday, gives an amazing 900mm focal length when the lens is fully extended.

And as you can see, and as you mentioned, it produces a crazily narrow DOF

keps

Dodder today


grey wagtail

wren

pegasus1

Nice shots Kep, do you use spot metering? Perhaps under expose a tad in bright light...

keps

@pegasus

In fact, you are right, the wren photo was overexposed by 4 stops ( as I had been shooting in a darker area a few seconds earlier) - but as it was taken in raw format I made an effort to recover it - not totally successful but ok


The Grey Wagtail shot - is exactly the way I wanted it:)

gzoladz

keps wrote: »

pied wagtail

Hybrid pied/grey ?

keps

@Gustavo


Is this the same.???.. taken at the Dropping Well... in fact on the Hippo(Woody) in the Dodder. This bird seems to act kinda like a grey wagtail.. staying on water and hopping from rock to rock- that is at the times I have seen it



wagtail

wastai


Maybe it's just tinged by Winter plumage

keps

Pied and Grey

pied

gzoladz

Yes it looks the same, an hybrid according to BWI. Thanks for sharing it.

Isambard

Today's expedition took me to Crosshaven. Little flock of Cormorant there , of which I got one half decent photo.

Isambard

and also lots of rotten shots.... :-)