[Irma]

They live at this time of the year in my garden, and yesterday was a lovely day to take pictures of them.

Great tit




Blue tit




Long-tailed tit?




I cropped them tight to have a better look, so I think this pictures will be just good for web... unfortunately..

[Janika]

Irma; Your Long-tailed tit looks like a Chickadee! Some very nice n sharp images. I'd be proud to own these!


John

[NT73]

It's tail doesn't look long enough Irma. All the ones I have seen have really long tails and a white stripe on the top of the head. Can't find mine at the moment.

[Irma]

Thanks so much for your comments.
Yes you both are right this is a Chikadee... probably the picture in the site I got the name from wasn't a good one and I mistook my bird for another one....

[Polly]

Thanks so much for your comments.
Yes you both are right this is a Chikadee... probably the picture in the site I got the name from wasn't a good one and I mistook my bird for another one....

It's almost certainly a Coal tit. We don't have the Chickadee in the UK or anywhere else in Northern or Western Europe afaik.

The Coal Tit is very small, smaller than the Blue tit.

Pol

[Pat]

Good shots - beautiful small birds

[Teri]

Great pictures! All three of them are too cute.

[Irma]

Thanks so much Polly for the name... I will try to take more pictures of this birdie... He is indeed very small...

Pat, Terri, Thanks a lot for your comments, I am very happy you like them.

[Irma]

An addition to my woodland birds thread

Boo!




From my garden

[rdegro]

Fantastic images Irma.

My bird shots are too drab to even consider posing, well Starlings, Sparrows and Blackbirds don't make very good subjects.

[Toad]

Very pretty shots, Irma. The last one is my fav - but I also really like the pose on the second last one.

[Pat]

I just love the 'boo' photograph, gorgeous little birds

[Janika]

More cute birds Irma, Wow!

[Irma]

Thanks for your comments...

I took the last picture with my macro lens, trying to get more detail in the feathers. I was more or less 2 mts. from the bird, it is a bit difficult with the macro since I have to be closer. I'll see next time we have nice weather if I can make something to get a bit more closer...

Rene, we also have lots of black birds, but they are so difficult to photograph... I never get detail in the feathers.

[navis01]

Love the boo! image Irma. Cracking shots altogether. How do you get so close. the birds in my garden flee as soon as I step outside the door!

[Irma]

The thing I discovered with the butterflies is that if you blend into the place they have the feeders, they are not afraid of you. So I did the same with the birds. My first pictures were taken with the 100-400mm and I didn't have good light, so I was f9, 1/200sec iso200. I was lucky to have something sharp at all... However I love the pose of the first one. I will try a new technique with my post processing maybe I could recover some detail on the feathers in that picture.

As I wanted to have more detail I thought it would be best with the macro. The feeder hangs from a tree with thick trunk, so I wore brownish trousers, and my green jacket with hood, my monopod, and the feeder was ful of seeds. I stood up near the trunk of the tree and I didn't move for a while. With the time they thing nobody is there... You start looking where they sit first before to approach the feeder and you point in that twig. When the bird comes again to the feeder and makes the first stop, click...

You need also lots of time and lots of patience...

[Banded Drake]

I really like these Irma , i know what you mean about patience , birds are so hard to get good shots of and you pulled it off vern nicely ...



..........Shawn

[Irma]

Thanks Shawn, I am happy you like them...