Shufflewing

I Read in an RSPB book yesterday the old country name for the dunnock was shufflewing, this was because of their habit of lifting one wing to display, i had not noticed this before and today this one was living up to it's name in my back garden.

Taken through back window, i know the background is messy but found it interesting to see this behaviour anyway,(he was displaying to House Sparrows) also this is a split second display and it was quite hard to catch it doing it in the open.

Model Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Flash Used No
Focal Length 600 mm
Exposure Time 1/500 sec
Aperture f/5.6
ISO Equivalent 640
Exposure Bias -1/3

A behaviour I was watching only yesterday & to get a clear shot I did struggled due to their quickness in darting about, also it isn't easy to get a shot when they keep flittering in & out of the undergrowth.

Fair play, here you have captured the courtship behaviour brilliantly & the fine detail of the birds plumage. Nice one Brian

Hi Brian
a very nice behavioural display of the Dunnock.
John
Aberdeen

Hello Brian,
Great behavoural shot, like it. Never heard them called shuffle wings before!
All the best Rob.

Hi Brian

Often witnessed but I have never seen it captued so well in an image!

David

A most excellent image, and whilst the background is slightly distracting it takes little from the image.

As said often seen, never captured..

T

BG is not a problem for me, you don't often get Dunnocks out in the open with a nice clean bg, excellent behaviour image....