Posted by John Robinson on September 8, 2008 at 6:36 PM
Tree Pipit.
Just after bathing in pool.
Been a terrible year for these here like a lot of other species in the forest. Not much luck with pool birds either -pools all over the place !!
D200
Sigma 100-300mm
400 ISO 125th @f11
Contrast down in camera.
PSP7 and neat image.
Hi John a nice image especially as I don't have any images of these..
Phil.
Posted by John Robinson on September 9, 2008 at 11:02 AM
Thanks Phil.
Glad someone likes it.
Everything working OK by the way.
Cheers
john
Posted by eric weight on September 9, 2008 at 2:34 PM
I like it too. Eric
Posted by Matt Cole on September 10, 2008 at 2:59 AM
that's a very nice one John, I like the bird's pose and nice warm feather colouring. My bird ID skills are not sophisticated enough to tell these apart from Meadow Pipits, so I've no idea whether I see these around my patch (probably not though!).
Matt
Posted by keith mitchell on September 10, 2008 at 3:19 AM
Hi John.
Lovely ,can't find any fault.
Keith.
Posted by Nel Hegener on September 10, 2008 at 4:15 AM
Excellent shot John
Posted by Paul Gibbs on September 10, 2008 at 5:01 AM
Nice image John, sharp and nice and warm, (morning light?).
Matt, a local bird spotter did a nice quote for pipits "As you all know, Tree and Meadow Pipits can only be identified by what they land on after their display flight: if it lands in a tree it's a Tree Pipit, if it lands on anything else (such as the ground, a wall, a car, the one-armed drummer from Def Leppard) then it's a Meadow Pipit."
Posted by Chas Spradbery on September 10, 2008 at 8:19 AM
Nice one John!
Posted by John Robinson on September 10, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Thanks .
Meadow pipit is one of my bogey birds. I have very little. There are quite a good number of tree pips around here where I live but they don't come to the pool very often.
Paul -it was in fact late afternoon but the low light filtering through the leaves does funny things !
Cheers
all
JohnR
Posted by Mark Sisson on September 12, 2008 at 4:05 AM
Lovely colours on the bird John - never an easy subject. Like it.
Discussion
10 repliesJust after bathing in pool.
Been a terrible year for these here like a lot of other species in the forest. Not much luck with pool birds either -pools all over the place !!
D200
Sigma 100-300mm
400 ISO 125th @f11
Contrast down in camera.
PSP7 and neat image.
Phil.
Glad someone likes it.
Everything working OK by the way.
Cheers
john
Matt
Lovely ,can't find any fault.
Keith.
Matt, a local bird spotter did a nice quote for pipits "As you all know, Tree and Meadow Pipits can only be identified by what they land on after their display flight: if it lands in a tree it's a Tree Pipit, if it lands on anything else (such as the ground, a wall, a car, the one-armed drummer from Def Leppard) then it's a Meadow Pipit."
Meadow pipit is one of my bogey birds. I have very little. There are quite a good number of tree pips around here where I live but they don't come to the pool very often.
Paul -it was in fact late afternoon but the low light filtering through the leaves does funny things !
Cheers
all
JohnR
Mark