Nothing Unusual

By Words | Published May 22, 2012

This feels like quite an unusual post given that it is mainly focused on some of our common garden birds. Nothing exotic here, but some nice surprises further down the page. I'll start though with a simple shot of a magpie, taken this morning at work. Nothing fancy, but a nice pose.

Next up one from late in the day, at home in the garden. The light caught this greenfinch perfectly and the intervening foliage created a natural soft frame.

The highlight from an observational perspective (if not photographic) were a small family of great tits that frequent the garden. Here's an adult.

And here's it is with two of the several fledglings.

Finally a couple of the shots that I suspect you knew were coming. Feeding time 😉

As I said at the start, nothing too unusual in this post, and next up is nothing fancier than a domestic cat. I'd been watching it watching something for a while, and (for once) was perfectly placed to capture the leap. I have no idea what it was after, and it didn't appear to have any success.

Last, certainly not least, but again hardly a surprise… Shutterbug in the garden in the middle of the evening. Unusually for him he didn't hang about, but then he does seem to be taking his parenting responsibilities quite seriously. As do the vixens.

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Camera note: all daylight shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. the cat and the fox were both taken with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS lens.

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9 Comments

  1. derWandersmann May 23, 2012 at 2:05 am #

    Nice collection. More art than science, but there's nothing wrong with that.

  2. SittingFox May 23, 2012 at 10:05 am #

    I must still be suffering from jetlag – when I saw the greenfinch, my brain said: "yellow warbler" :right: :whistle:

    The hunger of fledgling birds knows no equal! Nice series.

  3. gdare May 24, 2012 at 2:05 am #

    With so many birds around, who do you think a cat was after :ninja:

  4. Words May 24, 2012 at 11:05 pm #

    Darko, I'm not sure what the cat was after, but it was quite intense about whatever it was it didn't get!

  5. Words May 24, 2012 at 11:05 pm #

    Adele, thanks. There are plenty of fledglings at the moment. It seems quite a decent year despite the poor weather for most of the spring. Hope your write-up is going well.

  6. Words May 24, 2012 at 11:05 pm #

    dW, thanks! I'm just enjoying having some light to play with 😉

  7. serola May 25, 2012 at 11:05 am #

    Nothing unusual, just good pictures as usual :sherlock:

  8. derWandersmann May 25, 2012 at 5:05 pm #

    Bingo!, Sami!

  9. Words May 28, 2012 at 12:05 am #

    Sami, :cheers: