Shooting birds

[greypoint]

Wandering round seeing what shows up is best...one day I even found a Whistling Duck



and a baby Oystercatcher

[Markulous]

Some absolutely wonderful shots here! Especially Markulous' furry' bird!

LOL!  Just demonstrating other things from my doorway! Mr Squeak (my name for him/her) is a Vole and is very cute - taken loads of shots of them (as they only live a max of about two years and I've been shooting them for a few years now) 

Here's my doorway - light's not great (under tree canopy) so have to use a pretty slow shutter but teaches me the benefits of timing (rarely 'machine gun'!) - dislike flash so don't use it. Try everything from 105mm to 150-500mm from there (even got reasonable closeups with my mobile!)


@greypoint - Just love that baby Oystercatcher! Excellent!

[Graham]

Wandering round seeing what shows up is best...one day I even found a Whistling Duck



and a baby Oystercatcher

How come you've managed to get them both doing the "Hokey Cokey"?
                 Graham.                            

[greypoint]

Curses...you've spotted that they're stuffed 

[Reinardina]

Markulous, you live in a wonderful place, by the look of it!

Greypoint, my first impression, when that baby oystercatcher came into view, was of a border collie pup!  I saw something black and white and furry!

I have to explain here, that I hardly ever 'get' things at first glance, as my retinas are riddled with blind spots. I have to scan everything at least three times, to make sense of whatever it is. My eyes and brain do this automatically, so it is not too much of a problem. It can be very funny, as in this case of the border collie! (Reading headlines is another source of untold mirth at times!)

[Oldboy]

Cracking shots posted all. 

But must admit I rarely spend more than a few minutes - I could never do hours whatever the location (I always say that if you have to wait too long the subject is just not photogenic enough!  )

Sometimes you have no choice but to wait for the action to start. In the case of the Herons, I had to wait for the parent to return with food before I could get these shots, ten hours over two days. With the Swallows, the chicks were waiting for a feed, so it only took about one hour but quite a few false alarms as other Swallows flew by, and the chick still beg for food like the one on the left.










In the case of the Snow Leopard it took the cameraman four weeks to get this shot. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Snow_Leopard#p00378k9

[Cathus]

My little garden setup, quite happy sit there for two or three of hours:





And one of the results:



And one from 3 hours in an RSPB reserve hide:

[rksmith51]

@Cathus, great shots and well worth the wait I think .