It feels slightly strange posting these tonight as we await the outcome of the Scottish Independence referendum, but here goes anyway! Just a pied wagtail looking for insects at the edge of Falmer Pond, but I can’t resist these pretty little birds. They’re great fun to photograph. Lots of movement and then some great posing.
Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens.
derwandersmann
19 Sep 2014They’ve got to rate pretty high on the “cute” scale, don’t they?
Words
21 Sep 2014dW, yes, and very agile too when catching insects in flight.
Darko
19 Sep 2014Nice set of photos. I haven’t seen pied wagtails over here – probably they don’t live in American continent – but there is a similar bird, but bigger, called killdeer 🙂
Words
21 Sep 2014Darko, I’m not sure whether you have anything similar to wagtails. The killdeer is rather like our ringed plover.
Darko
26 Sep 2014No, you are probably right, wagtails are smaller than killdeers.
How do you insert a photo in a comment? I tried few codes but none of them worked.
Words
27 Sep 2014That’s probably because I have admin rights. I just use standard html. If you leave a plain link I can always convert it from this end.
I just used the flickr html code and then set it to html (rather than embed). It inserted the thumbnail. I’m sure with a bit of playing around a larger version may be possible.
Words
27 Sep 2014Like this:
I’m not sure if you can do it though without more privileges here.
Darko
10 Oct 2014Oh, thanks for info. I would not be able to put that photo probably, but I will try. So far I just tried with embedding code.