Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Bearded Tit male






in the first photo the male is clearly agitated -- he flew into the reeds and made a higher pitched ping than usual for several minutes as the female called from the other side of the path -- suddenly a Sparrowhawk came out of the bushes 30m away, the cause of the agitation that they had seen but we had not -- some photographers only want images of birds fully in the open and in profile but these are reed dwellers and its nice to show them as such in my opinion

2 comments:

Chris said...

I love your bearded tits series a lot. I would love to see then as nicely as you... Are you hiding to get nice pictures like that?

Mike Randall Bird Photography said...

Nice pictures Graham. This is the true context as to how we usually see them.