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I took a long walk this morning. Quite a few birds around: 6 species of duck including Goosander and Goldeneye, a flyover Goshawk, 1 or 2 Great Egret and this male Daurian Redstart.
I was using my old 100-400L M1 with 1.4 T/C and today’s images were pretty soft but Topaz Denoise/Sharpen makes them presentable for low resolution images like here.
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City workers were hacking down the last area of trees next to the river and the amount of litter strewn along the riverside was shocking. A shame to see my local patch turning into this.
Daurian Redstart is a popular bird here in HK, too
There are usually a couple of males along the river near my apartment in winter…
Surprised to read about the litter, – I had the impression the people in Japan were pretty disciplined about this kind of thing ?
Some of them aren’t!
That’s a cracking image of the male Redstart. I guess the rusting pipe in the background (good or bad) sets the context in a somewhat neglected urban environment! Never had a chance for such a good shot myself
Hopefully you’ll get the chance before too long…