Nuthatch

Discussion

13 replies

Posted by Robert Lawrence on October 9, 2009 at 2:18 PM

Taken in the garden recently. Not having been in my garden hide for some time I was delighted to find a pair of nuthatches were visiting the feeders at the edge of the wood. As John R mentioned in an earlier post it is becoming a bit more feasible to shoot as the leaves are coming off the trees. During summer the light levels are so poor it is hardly worth while, especially on fast moving little birds like these.
100-300 @ 260mm
1/250 @f 5.6
iso 500

Posted by Alan Bryant on October 9, 2009 at 4:23 PM

Cracking image

I dont know if this is a big crop or its because of the ISO 500, but the BG is very noisy ?.

Other than that its great

Posted by bill meikle on October 9, 2009 at 5:16 PM

It should be easy to reduce the background noise, lovely image, nice and close and bright and sharp.

Posted by Ian Macdermott on October 9, 2009 at 5:23 PM

Hi Robert

nicely caught shot with a very good but noisy background

as mentioned easily sorted

Posted by Frederic Desmette on October 10, 2009 at 3:50 AM

Very nice picture indeed!
Frederic

Posted by Barry Southon on October 10, 2009 at 5:49 AM

Robert

Very nice capture.

Posted by Tim Munsey on October 10, 2009 at 1:25 PM

Wonderful, I sense some nuthatch madness coming on.

Tim

Posted by PhilH on October 10, 2009 at 2:53 PM

A nice typical Nuthatch pose..... Interesting the comments about noise, maybe a little predominant here, however, in the good old days, did any one comment that the film grain detracted from the image? At an average reproduction size in print you would not even notice it.... Sorry, just a pet hang up.... Back on topic...

Like it....

Posted by Fran French on October 10, 2009 at 4:09 PM

A lovely pose with some very nice detail too.

Fran

Posted by Lewis Thomson on October 10, 2009 at 7:48 PM

Hi Robert,

Noise aside its a great shot of a tricky little species, keep the feed going and they should hang around too, looking forward to more!

Cheers,

Lewis.

Posted by Kim Connolly on October 11, 2009 at 9:00 AM

A nice composition, Lovely pose, and good colour

Posted by Andy Shepherd on October 11, 2009 at 11:10 AM

Like it Robert, super detail and comp.

Andy...

Posted by John Robinson on October 11, 2009 at 6:28 PM

Good pose . Nits covered.
Cheers
JohnR

Posted by Mark Sisson on October 12, 2009 at 3:16 AM

Phil H is right!! Classic shot and pose well executed.

Mark