Nov 1
Bird bonanza
As I said yesterday, I expected there to be more birds and as it turned out, there were. Constant traffic! I sat in the blind for two hours, shot 213 frames and kept… 9. I wouldn’t be doing this with film! Normally I’m happy if I just get something which is sharp and correctly exposed when I’m photographing birds, but too much is too much so I started throwing away some technically good pictures as well. I expect the numbers to get even worse in the future, the more pictures I have a of a species, the more selective I can get… at the moment it’s mostly great tits, it came to a point where I decided that I won’t shoot any more great tits and just waited for the other birds. I was happy to get a few good frames of a willow tit and a blue tit, but the nuthatches and coal tits avoided my perches as yet. No sign of the crested tit so far, I hope it’s still around though.
So all I’ll have to post until the snow arrives is birds. You have been warned.
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Oh, ain’t it cute bird
Blues are so strong, that I’d say this is male, but I might be wrong -there was a time I could tell some birds’ sex and age just by looking at a good picture. Nicely done, I like this better than the first one!
I was sooo happy when this blue one finally settled on this branch, I think I had been sitting in the blind for an hour and a half by then and getting mighty tired with the great tits. I’m learning wildlife photography… it’s 99% waiting and 1% shooting.
Having said that, it’s also a great way to spend a Sunday morning. Just sitting there in my little shelter, watching the little birds going about their lives. 
Really good. Makes me want to buy tele too…