Some small winter birds at last!
Due to a torn rotator cuff in my shoulder I’ve stopped carrying my big 500 f4 lens around on my shoulder (It’s going to have be a tripod/monpod lens near the car from now on). So today I had the 400 f5.6 with 1.4X T/C. And…it’s usable but soft. Small lo-res images like these are just about OK.
It was a bit dark and there was a very strong cold wind, not ideal for photography.
I may not see any more until next winter…
More pics of the Asian Rosy Finch striking poses on the beach…
Volcanic sand of course…
Nice background when it went to the top of the dunes…
The Rosy Finches left the port so i checked some of the local beaches and found this lone one in somewhat nicer surroundings…
It was foraging in the snow free areas…
Not the greatest backdrop but there were a dozen or so Asian Rosy Finches in one the ports nearby…
The final Asian Rosy Finch pics from last weekend…………..
The Rosy Finches put on a bit of a show…………
Some more from last weekend………..
I took a lot of Asian Rosy Finch pictures last Sunday………..
They breed in pristine mountains somewhere in northeast Asia but in the winter they slum it in the flotsam and jetsam in the corner of fishing ports………….
Fish crates are used for perching instead of heather or moss-covered rocks………..
Asian Rosy Finches were everywhere on Sunday: we saw them in at least 4 different locations.
