Show your Bird Portraits
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The first shot is the one I like for the following: "The black-necked grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) is rare and hard to find in Britain. There are just 55 breeding pairs, and a maximum of 115 individuals here in winter. Not many birdwatchers see it, or even have conversations about it."
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I went yesterday to my favorite beach-park for a walk. First impression was - huge mistake! A lot of people - to much to count 
! On other hand the birds obviously gave up - I found unoccupied tree shade with a flock of a Common Wax-Bill, undisturbed from my presence at ~3-5 meters and started shooting, just to hear the sound of my camera! At once and very suddenly in front of me jumped something very strange!!! Nearly the MFD of my lens but still good. It took me some time to realize it's just a Chestnut Munia in very extreme camouflage (I call the immature of that species "camouflaged" because they molt into sub-adult/adult plumage very unpredictably and with a great variability! This one is the top of what I have ever seen! After that from nowhere jumped a Safron Finch -even closer!!! All the fun stopped when I heard a voice behind of me "did you finish, I want to eat already!". That guy decided that exactly that tree-shadow is the perfect spot for him to open his cooler?!
Whatever -the good news is that my daughter finally started working on her images taken on the way to/during our vacation and I'm posting some spiders (for now - more to come, mostly different insects). It's a hard work - in the first memory card (256GB) she has 900+ photos (jpg + RAW) mostly of the same stuff! And she has few more cards (different capacity) full!
! On other hand the birds obviously gave up - I found unoccupied tree shade with a flock of a Common Wax-Bill, undisturbed from my presence at ~3-5 meters and started shooting, just to hear the sound of my camera! At once and very suddenly in front of me jumped something very strange!!! Nearly the MFD of my lens but still good. It took me some time to realize it's just a Chestnut Munia in very extreme camouflage (I call the immature of that species "camouflaged" because they molt into sub-adult/adult plumage very unpredictably and with a great variability! This one is the top of what I have ever seen! After that from nowhere jumped a Safron Finch -even closer!!! All the fun stopped when I heard a voice behind of me "did you finish, I want to eat already!". That guy decided that exactly that tree-shadow is the perfect spot for him to open his cooler?!Whatever -the good news is that my daughter finally started working on her images taken on the way to/during our vacation and I'm posting some spiders (for now - more to come, mostly different insects). It's a hard work - in the first memory card (256GB) she has 900+ photos (jpg + RAW) mostly of the same stuff! And she has few more cards (different capacity) full!
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