Very nice shot Alan! Are the long tail Tits in your area as well? The Great Tits are also very beautiful .The sun shone this morning and so it was a covid-lockdown-compatible walk with the 1.4xTC on the 100-500mm and R5 at 700mm, iso 1250, f/10 and 1/500s for a Blue Tit who perched for just a few seconds. I used point focus with this complicated background as I had to be quick. No way the lens and TC are being sent back.
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The Longtailed Tits are here but I haven't got a close up this year yet. Here is a tiny shot of a distant one take on Friday with the 400mm DO II on the R5 and a nice close up of a Great Tit from the 100-400mm II on the R5 earlier at iso 8000Very nice shot Alan! Are the long tail Tits in your area as well? The Great Tits are also very beautiful .
Here's another one, a Coal Tit from yesterday. I rarely see these tiny birds and it was in my apple tree, and I had to shoot it through ugly double glazing. Also, I was testing the 5DSR and it was so gloomy that it needed iso 6400 and f/4. This is a 100% crop from the centre, OK for the record.They Are such beautiful birds! Those are great shots .Thanks
Got a better shot today from outside and with the 2xTC on. Again, the bad light doesn't help and the bird doesn't keep still for more than a second or two.Here's another one, a Coal Tit from yesterday. I rarely see these tiny birds and it was in my apple tree, and I had to shoot it through ugly double glazing. Also, I was testing the 5DSR and it was so gloomy that it needed iso 6400 and f/4. This is a 100% crop from the centre, OK for the record.
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The birds I see most frequently in my garden are Blue Tits, Great Tits, Longtailed Tits and now Coal Tits. Several finches; Goldfinch, Greenfinch and Chaffinch being the most common and now to my delight Bullfinches. Blackcaps occasionally, and Chiffchaffs will come in the spring. Two species of woodpeckers, the Great Spotted and Green, visit regularly, as does a Jay, and there is an abundance of Blackbirds, Dunnocks and Robins, and unfortunately, Magpies and Crows. Rare visitors like a Sparrowhawk and Little Egrets are welcome, and Buzzards circle overhead. Starlings and Woodpigeons are usually around. I don't like the pigeons because they are so skittish they scare the other birds into flying off when they see me.Very Nice Alan! so are they all common to your area as you said the Blue Tit was?