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Female Stonechat

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Posted by Lea Roberts on April 29, 2009 at 4:39 PM
As promised in my last post the female. not as obliging as the male as she was using the perches the other side of the nest site and going in through the back door. i have one more in this series to post of a hovering male with a caterpillar. thanks for looking

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Posted by Matt Cole on April 29, 2009 at 4:52 PM
very nice indeed, great pose and composition and a caterpillar too.

Matt
Posted by Lee Newman on April 29, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Perfect. Colours, comp, perch, bg & the worms just finish it off. I like the bits of cobweb too.
Superb image :toast:

Lee
Posted by John Robinson on April 29, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Not sure if its wise to say about the nest proximity ??
Reference - recent posts. ( sorry - should have mentioned- in ref to nest photography and disturbing birds on ar near the nest)
Good stuff though.
Cheers
JR
Posted by Kim Connolly on April 30, 2009 at 3:36 AM
Everything about this makes it a fabulous composition for me. Simply beautiful.
Posted by Ian Mason on April 30, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Lovely image. I haven't been able to get near these yet. I'd be tempted to take a little off the right side. Depending how you feel about cloning, you could also remove the bit of the branch that crosses the left edge.
Posted by Lea Roberts on May 4, 2009 at 3:09 PM
thanks for the comments all, much appreciated.

Ian, i did think about cloning the bit of branch before i posted but decided not to

lea