Elliot Sampford: Blue Tit

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Saturday, 2 January 2016

Photograph Gallery for December 2015

December 2015 has been a quiet month for me on the photography side of my life.

'Watching the Watcher' [Koala – aka Squirrel III.]

Rather than just publish this image I thought I'd tell you the story behind it.

It was nearly 14:22 hrs. and we had just finished our lunch. I was feeling frustrated and down as I'd had to waste valuable photography time today; during a bright, sunny morning; to take my car to the service garage. When I returned home there was very little activity from the birds or squirrels in my garden as they had already been for their brunch. I hadn't taken any worthwhile photographs up to this point in time and the quality of the light was failing fast as the sky filled with dark clouds.

I got up from the dining table and looked into the garden.

Everything suddenly changed when I saw this male Sparrowhawk perched amongst the nut and seed feeders hanging in our crab-apple tree. The hawk intended to interpret a different meaning to the term 'bird feeders': they are there for the birds to feed from but he intended for birds to be feed from them.

A quick dash upstairs to get the Canon and a few shots were fired off through the kitchen double glazed French-door glass before the hawk left as suddenly as it came.

Frustration had been replaced by excitement and satisfaction as you can probably tell from this ramble by me. It turned out to be a good photography day after all: it's good to be a photographer.

PS. ISO and therefore image noise was too high because of the poor light but who cares I got him.

'Dunnocks are not Dull'.

'Lapping Ripples' by G Squirrel.

Blue Fairy at the bottom of my garden.

A 22 K bird which, with its many friends, brings a golden glow to any garden on a dull winter's day.

Monday, 16 November 2015

Photograph Gallery for week ending 15 November 2015

It's been over two months since I published an image of a Robin here on my weblog. I think that's a long enough gap. So here is one I shot (no it's still alive) at the beginning of this week.

Green unsociable: Gold hungry.

Goldfinch - Bird in Fight.

Nut takeaway by Blue-tit Express.

Greenfinch angel.

It's Saturday so it's 'Strictly come Flying'. I hope you think it's fab-u-lous and not a dis-a-ster.

'Graceful Greenfinch'

Saturday, 31 October 2015

My Photograph Gallery for September 2015.

Double vision - Little Egrets.

'All Clear Behind.' - Blue Tit.

'Follow me: follow me' - Lapwing.

Black-necked Grebe. The first is in breeding plumage and the second I think is non-breeding. You can see the eye markings are different as well as the plumage.

Yellow-legged Gull ?

Greater Flamingo.

Redshank.

My first photograph of a Sardinian Warbler.

I think this is a Kentish Plover, although its legs might be the wrong colour.

It's only a Little Egret but I like the water flow image.

Squacco Heron. A first for me.

Wednesday, 2 September 2015

My Photograph Gallery for week ending 30 August 2015.

Now that's a mouthful for a Blue Tit.

Shoveler (female).

We were preparing lunch on the 26 August when we noticed that one of our regular visitors couldn't wait any longer and started to eat before us. The tray is just under 3 metres away from the kitchen window.