Odd one out

Common Crossbill

The crossbills are still in town but mostly high up…except when they come down for a drink.

Common Crossbill
Common Crossbill

There are several flocks in town and they are all very restless and mobile. I tried some BIF shots and found something interesting on the wholly crappy pics…look at the odd one out.

White-winged Crossbill

Still birdy

Varied Tit

In the tiny park near my place there were 4 species of tit, Great Spotted Woodpecker, a small flock of Brambling, 1 Hawfinch, a male Daurian Redstart, 1 Long-tailed Rosefinch, several Dusky Thrush, 2 Eurasian Nuthatch and 4 Crossboll. On the river were Great Egret, Grey Heron and above was a Eurasian Sparrowhawk. Not a bad haul…

Not great photos. Shoulder issues etc etc…

Eurasian Nuthatch
Common Crossbill

6400 again

Common Crossbill

To give my poor shoulder a rest I’ve been using the 600 f/11 the last 2 months (as opposed to the 500 f/4). But it was so dark in the park this morning that I borrowed my old 100-400L M1 from my wife as I knew f/11 would be unusable. I still had to use ISO 6400 though.

Amazing what noise reduction software can do these days (at least with small low-res images like these).

Common Crossbill
Common Crossbill

These were taken in a park to the east of town. Crossbills are everywhere this autumn.