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David - thank you. I have never seen a waxwing, and I do keep looking. People tell me they see them in supermarket car parks. I just seem to miss them. But one day I would love to be able to see this for myself. But not at -30 that is dedication.
I've had Bohemian Waxwings in the UK. We have Cedar Waxwings around here although they head south when the winter turns cold.
It's the image that's important, not the tools used to make it.
Saw three nuthatches today in my local forest. Reminded me of the last time I saw them in the same forest in May 2013 nesting in this fairly inconvenient hole in a tree.
I watched them for two days and tried many ways to get a decent picture but it was very high up and I had huge trouble with the metering as the birds came in and out like small rockets. The chicks had fledged when I went back again.
I can't post anything from today as I was shooting with a Canon system. Based on my shots of Marsh Tits today, roll on May 2016!
Lucky you finding three Nuthatches Peter. Great little birds. Your Canon shots of the Marsh Tit are excellent. I love those shiny eyes.
Ron
Hi Ron
It was a good day for seeing. Although I was actually trying to see Treecreepers. But saw very many Marsh Tits and lots of Long-tailed, plus one Green Woodpecker and three nuthatches (singly in three places), but high up. I took a shot of one banging a nut on the tree trunk - they had too much movement blur.
Thanks for looking at Flickr. I hope Olympus eventually gets a similar long lens proposition. And I have spent a lot of money trying to get close to it over the years.
My first post here for a while so I thought I would share a few pics of wildfowl and waders at one of our local nature reserves, Keyhaven Salt Marsh.
Shot yesterday during a test run with the canon 70-300 LIS on the EM-1 via a metabones smart T adapter.
Most of the action was at the backside of the lagoon, I estimate around 400+ yards away but there was a nice mix of Shelduck, Godwit, Brent Geese and Lapwings in action
Lynn and I went for a walk at Lake Lothing last Sunday to see if we could spot the Great Northern Diver and Guillemot which had been there for a few days. We did see them bit they were really distant. We then walked on to Oulton Broad and at the lock there we discovered a Common Sandpiper, which was a surprise. One of them overwintered there last year so I don't know if it is the same bird. I took a couple of poor record shots which are not worth posting here. On the way we passed lots of Redshanks feeding at the water's edge, one of which is pictured here.
Sorry, I didn't know you were posting your shots when I posted mine Brian. It's a lovely sight seeing all those birds in great light. I do like Brent Geese. The Canon lens and adapter seem to be doing a great job in your hands.
It certainly makes the populations around here look very tiny.
The size of the roost meant you never knew what was going to be mixed in with the BH. There was two of us surveying the roost, we used to count the Herring Gulls and LBB Gulls by subspecies while looking for a rarity.
Edit, I forgot to say, that was a reservoir and our drinking water.
It's the image that's important, not the tools used to make it.
Sorry, I didn't know you were posting your shots when I posted mine Brian. It's a lovely sight seeing all those birds in great light. I do like Brent Geese. The Canon lens and adapter seem to be doing a great job in your hands.
Ron
No worries Ron, parallel posting proves that "Great minds think alike"
yours is a nice Red Shank, something missing for us yesterday but I was very happy to see the Lapwings in such numbers, for a while they seemed to be in decline
I reckon the 70-300 LIS is a match for the 50-200 ED up to 200mm and is better than the 50-200 + 1.4X TC in both focus speed / accuracy and IQ. (so far, so good anyway )
The size of the roost meant you never knew what was going to be mixed in with the BH. There was two of us surveying the roost, we used to count the Herring Gulls and LBB Gulls by subspecies while looking for a rarity.
Edit, I forgot to say, that was a reservoir and our drinking water.
Was there a local refuse tip for feeding before they roosted in your drinking water? Or is that an urban myth?
The sun has finally come out so here are a couple of Sparrow shots to give an indication of the resolution and sharpness of the Canon + EM-1 combo in good light, 300mm fl hand-held. Distance was around 15ft
(don't know why it was on f7.1, I thought I was shooting wide open - must have been affected by the sun! )
Was there a local refuse tip for feeding before they roosted in your drinking water? Or is that an urban myth?
One fairly close, another further away but more popular. You could watch some of them flying in to roost from the direction of the one further away. The first thing a lot of them would do on landing on the water was to have a good wash.
It's the image that's important, not the tools used to make it.
Had a good day yesterday out in the sunshine with a good friend. We saw both little egrets and great white egrets and I got in flight shots I'm proud of but not able to post here. And took pictures of a pair of GWE standing side by side in full view. An amazing day seeing what are to me very rare sights.
He was shooting with an Olympus EM5 with a Swarovski scope. I will be seeing his shots tomorrow, he says they are soft, but if I can find a good example from his pictures I may be able to add one here.
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