Ok. must be honest here. These birds were sitting on the feeder but I gave them natural wood perches to sit on so the poor souls don't have to put up with swinging around on an unsecured feeder. I can isolate them from the feeders. I sit in the summer house-10paces away. There's a feeding station 30 miles away in the Forest of Dean but photographers have feeders there too and scatter seed around and set up 'logs' and photograph the waiting birds rather than those on the feeders so it's really one step removed from what I've done here. Apparently it's not the done thing to take photos of birds on feeders(say the purists) but they almost do it in the Forest-Some of those guys must be profs. because they have 600mm lenses and all the camouflage gear and sit in their cars and rest the lenses on beanbags on the open windows. I mean it's hard to just go into the countryside and hope you see them. I get a lot of entertainment watching them here at home. Yesterday a young sparrow, believe it or not ,considering it's size,took umbridge to the presence of a pigeon and pecked the pigeon's tail and the pigeon turned round and tried to beak the sparrow but the sparrow was too fast in flying up.lol. also, I saw a sparrow, maybe the same bold one, actually peck the head of a much larger juv. starling (one pictured here) as the starling was eating fat (fat balls) The starling jutted it's beak towards the sparrow but the sparrow was away. lol. My neighbour was testing his 5D 11 video and we were able to watch it much more closely because live it's over in a trice. it's wonderful to get an insight into their world.
I'm wondering if the first Tit is infact a Blue Tit - look at the difference between it and the definite Great Tit the last one..- both youngsters- we have a Great Tit nest next door but on and they've been coming from there but it looks like a well fed canary with all that yellow.lol
The bokeh in no. 2 is coming from the gable wall of a house behind us 3 doors away- two semis a large gap and this brick wall.
Juvenile starling. 400mm f5.6 1/125 sec. ISO 200
Juv. Great /Blue Tit .400mm f5.6 1/200 ISO 200
400mm 1/320 f5.6 ISO 250
