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Nesting Material

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Posted by Ron McCombe on April 9, 2010 at 6:14 PM
Nesting Material
Spotted flycatcher eying up some horse hair on barbed wire

Canon 40D Canon 500mm f4 lens, 1.4x TC, f5.6, 1/500sec ISO 320

Image taken May 2009
Posted by John Robinson on April 9, 2010 at 6:33 PM
Nice one Ron.
Bit early for a Spotted Fly though. They are usually late May arrivals hereabouts.
Cheers
JohnR
Posted by David Taylor on April 9, 2010 at 6:34 PM
Very nice capture. I hope the hair is put to good use. My daughter's best friend is an itinerant haidresser, my hair lines many a nest in this area. :biggrin: :eek:

:toast: :toast: :jump:
Posted by Ron McCombe on April 9, 2010 at 6:54 PM
Sorry guys

the image was taken last may

Ron
Posted by Craig Jones on April 10, 2010 at 9:50 AM
Beautiful :jump: :wink: love the lone bird and the space either side of the bird,BG is a dream and great detail and colours Ron :wink: :wavey:
Posted by Phil Mclean on April 10, 2010 at 4:18 PM
Lovely soft,graduated background and lighting, Ron.Nicely composed,well done.
Mind you,I've already seen it in our Exhibition at Paxton,so I'm bored now! :biggrin:

Phil. :toast: :wavey: :wink:
Posted by Guy Rogers on April 11, 2010 at 9:09 AM
Hello Ron.

Its a really nice capture and great to capture the bird looking at the nesting material.

The only nit for me is there is a bit to much space mainly on the left and top and puts the bird almost in the middle of the image and I think a crop would make the image much stronger.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Posted by Marcus Conway on April 11, 2010 at 9:11 AM
Lovely colours in this image Ron :toast: