very nice story!rfdesigner said:Whilst in the garden today I noticed a fledgling just sitting in the grass, chirping away. They do this when they jump from the nest, apparently it's safer to be sat in the undergrowth than in the nest as preditors may well have worked out where the nest is. However with 3 rather clumsy children galumphing up and down the garden it's life chances didn't look good, so I intervened. (Birds have poor sense of smell, so a slight proximity doesn't put parents off unlike say deer, but it's not wise to move a bird very far otherwise parents might not find it again)
Having been on a handling course for birds of prey I treated this exaclty the same, crawled in as low as I could, got it to hop onto my wrist then raised that arm so it was slightly above me when standing, it seemed quite happy, carrying on chirping.
I got my wife to grab the camera, told her what to do, how to focus etc and she started clicking away and slowly approaching. This is the last shot before it jumped onto her head, eventually it jumped into the trees next to us.
And species wise it's a Robin.
Taken with a 28mmf1.8 on a 6D... who needs telephoto! ;D
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