Wild life, bird watching and photography

Does anyone here do wildlife and bird photography or bird watching?

Not bird watching in the true sense but do enjoy watching the birds that visit the bird feeder we have in the garden.

Edited By Derek Lane on 08/09/2021 15:30:48

Yes, in not too serious manner.

My avatar image is my own work. It is a drake Pintail in spring, breeding, plumage.

Enough said. This is hardly model engineering.

JA

Been known to lurk in the forests to get a few pics

Great to hear that you guys enjoy bird watching or wild life photography. I will share several of my photos here.

Curlew

Optics: 500mm f/4 P ED IF

Manual Focus and hand held panning

1/4000s, ISO 6400, f/6.3

Stunning bird, but I gather that they are threatened UK species.

Beautiful Grey Heron Saxalby!

Not a bird watcher but snap the odd interest... young woodpecker;

Hi Raphael, I'm not into bird watching or wildlife photography pre se, but if I get the chance to take a photo of something that I think is of interest, I will. These three photos I took with my Canon IXUS 170, the first two were on the Dove River near Marston on Dove (Burton on Trent) October 2016 when a workmate and myself were installing Dam-boards and their frames in a new Eel-pass that had been built there and the third one was taken on the shore of Lake Garda, between Garda and Bardolino, Italy on the 3rd September 2017 when I was on holiday there.

Regards Nick.

Yes, I'm spending more time out of doors than in the workshop at the moment.
Currently trying to learn how to capture dragons in flight; with not much success to be fair.
This is one of the more acceptable ones.

Lots of other stuff in my Flickr Account.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peak4/

Bill

Wow, brilliant shot Nicholas, the grey heron and little egret are just stunning!

Hi Bill, thats an amazing shot, wish I could have the same shot. Can you explain how did you managed this shot...I mean the process, settings and how did you time this? Looks like a southern hawker.

See stuff with the dogs as we go here and there, the missus does the david bailey bits

Thats a cracking dragonfly photo

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Looks like you are succeeding, Bill

That’s a lovely composition

MichaelG.

Hi Bill, have to agree that your dragon fly is really good.

Regards Nick.

Hi Raphael, thanks for your comment on the heron and the little egret. The heron was a real point and shoot photo and was 15M to 20M away on the other side of the river from us and it flew off only a moment or so after I took the shot and I must admit, I was well chuffed at how good it turned out. I guess the little egret was more used to people as that was from 5M or so away.

Regards Nick.

Wow, just excellent photos gents!

pgk, lovely to see this photo. Thanks for sharing!

Some action shot I did capture with a 500mm f/4 lens.

Starling trying to fly away when a joggers passes by.

Hi Raphael, that's a good action shoot and two for the price of one, if you get my drift.

Regards Nick.

Very enjoyable to look at, Bill. I especially liked the dipper and the fungi...and the two whitethroats sparring on a later page.

Edited By Bill Phinn on 09/09/2021 12:19:34

I'm a bird watcher but a fairly passive one. I don't photograph them except to snap one with my phone, such as yesterday when a male King parrot was feeding in a bush just outside my workshop door. I should make a list of birds I have seen in our fairly small yard over the years. Quite a few.

Some lovely photos! We used to plan holiday around looking for UK birds, we are lucky in that we live in a rural area so get to see most common wildlife locally on walks. This is a shot of a Little Owl I took sat on our wood pile last year:

This is a Roe deer taken through my rather grubby workshop window earlier this year: