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.
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…