Showing posts with label Long-tailed Tit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Long-tailed Tit. Show all posts

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Long-tailed Tits and lichens

watching this flock of Long-tailed Tits this afternoon and was left trying to work out what they were feeding on? constantly picking at the lichens on the branches and trunks of the ash trees but surely not eating the lichen but maybe finding something under the lichen?

I am getting more used to the Canon R6 and learning to appreciate the real features that make bird photography so much easier - the auto-focus is very very good with the eye tracking working really well even on passerines, the EVF allowing you to see what exposure you are getting and to adjust it instantly with a quick turn of one wheel, totally silent shooting with the Electronic shutter means zero disturbance of feeding birds which is maybe one of the most important features, the high ISO performance and the superb quality of the sensor just make for a game changing performance compared to my previous DSLR's and I loved my Canon 5D4's 















Tuesday, December 18, 2012

1DX test phase 1

thanks to a generous offer from Canon Pro services I got to take a 1DX out for the day and have a blast at a few birds -- flying birds seemed to be few and far between and clearly I had a lot to learn about the AF system and I was rather worried about taking it out sort of hoping the results would not be that good and then there would be no urge to upgrade!





All these statics at 800 ISO Canon 500f4 II and 1.4x III monopod -- straight out of the camera no sharpening or noise reduction

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Willow and Long-tails




Willow Tit is a bit of a local speciality bird but even here numbers are well down on 20 years ago but now seem to be fairly stable-- the new collective noun for Long-tails is a fatball of Long-tailed Tits

Thursday, March 25, 2010