A bright sunny day and a white bird; I can actually use normal ISO and S/S with the 600 f/11…
Tag: Great Egret
Normal
More non finches
From the big park near my place this afternoon…
Others
Something other than finches from yesterday…
Fitting in
Managed to fit this big bird into the frame even at 600mm…
A change to the usual winter finches. 3 of these around today.
Another afternoon stroll
More mild weather.
The redpolls have gone but now there seem to be Hawfinches everywhere.
The crossbills remain.
Gone. Again.
It appears the crossbill flock has upped and left. It wasn’t there on Thursday anyway. I only found 4, and 6 redpolls…
More birds on the river
I was checking the crossbills mainly but there were other birds around…
A New Year stroll #1
There were 9 (!) species of duck on the river including this female Falcated Duck.
And about half a dozen Great Egret…
End of year stroll
Not often I get to use ISO 100 with the RF 600 f/11 but today was one of those rare days.
Crossbills and redpolls were still around but I couldn’t get any decent shots. The few that were around were a bit jumpy…
More winter park birds
The crossbills were too high up but there was also a flock of Hawfinch.
And lots of Nuthatch. These have been unusually common this autumn/early winter. Some are a bit more reddish below, perhaps another subspecies? Who knows…
And on a mild day the ice receded and this Great Egret was fishing for tiddlers.
But not there today
I looked for the White-winged Crossbill from yesterday but couldn’t find it. Very dark and cold too…
The Common Crossbills were still around.
And this one was in a flock in the tiny park near my apartment.
Monday on the river
Crossbills aren’t the only birds on the pine trees…
3 species of heron about near my apartment including 8 Great Egret.
Also around were Dusky Thrush, Daurian Redstart, Nuthatch, 3 species of tit, Long-tailed Rosefinch, the injured Whooper Swan and 5 species of duck including 4 Goosander.