Medium Sized Birds

As a complementary post to yesterday's, here are some medium sized birds seen today at Falmer Pond. I'll start with the relatively unusual sight of a gull perching on a branch. Black-headed gulls are fairly good at this as they have relatively delicate and flexible feet. It's not something that the altogether more solid herring gull is likely to try. Oh, and though the name might seem strange, the white head is their winter look. The black-head gull's head goes black (actually, dark brown) in the breeding season.

The remainder of today's shots are of some of the many jackdaws that dominate the local landscape. They are highly social birds, with a distinctive call (yak-yak-yak) and blue eyes.


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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

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  1. derWandersmann

    7 Nov 2012

    The jackdaws in flight are superb, Words, and the gull looks like a museum mount.

  2. serola

    7 Nov 2012

    Great shots :hat: And are we going to see large birds next? 😀

  3. SittingFox

    7 Nov 2012

    Jackdaws are great to watch – so much character.

    I'm surprised the gull hasn't turned black again, given that we've had about as much sunshine in the last 48 hours as we did during the whole of summer!

  4. derWandersmann

    7 Nov 2012

    Next: Rocs.

  5. ICU109

    7 Nov 2012

    the capture of motion stuns me. no blurs. I can't even get a non blurry image of my dog.

  6. gdare

    8 Nov 2012

    That gull looks almost like a pigeon 😆

  7. Words

    11 Nov 2012

    dW, thanks. I love capturing jackdaws when the light is low. Great little flyers.

  8. Words

    11 Nov 2012

    Darko, not fat enough 😀

  9. Words

    11 Nov 2012

    dW, I'm working on it 😉

  10. Words

    11 Nov 2012

    Sami, the big birds have now (finally) been posted.

  11. Words

    11 Nov 2012

    Adele, don't confuse the poor gull. I doubt they can make any sense of anything to do with our weather this year. We've still got swallows as well. :faint:

  12. Words

    11 Nov 2012

    Kathy, the lack of blur is a combination of image stabilization in the lens and a fast shutter. But blur can be good too.

  13. serola

    12 Nov 2012

    Originally posted by Words:

    the big birds have now (finally) been posted.

  14. ICU109

    18 Dec 2012

    I've seen your amazing blurs. angelic they were, so u are right.

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