Little Little Grebe keeping an eye open

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14 replies

Posted by Ian Macdermott on July 28, 2010 at 6:29 AM

One from last week when I spent a very enjoyable 5-6 hours watching them.

I had to wait ages for him/her to face the right way.

D70
400mm 2.8
1/320 sec at f5.6 ISO 400
Tripod on ground
Processed in NX2
A bit cropped off the left hand side.

Posted by John Robinson on July 28, 2010 at 6:58 AM

Hi Ian
Different take on a Little Grebe and very nice too.
Cheers
JohnR

Posted by Stephen Kaluski on July 28, 2010 at 7:17 AM

Sweet, Ian.

Steve

Posted by Andy Snape on July 28, 2010 at 8:21 AM

Get fed up waiting for the voles to show? Different Ian

Posted by Karen Summers on July 28, 2010 at 12:30 PM

lovely and different Ian like it very much

Posted by keith mitchell on July 28, 2010 at 2:41 PM

Ian one relaxed bird which i really like to see,like it a lot.

Keith.

Posted by Shaun Simpson on July 28, 2010 at 3:04 PM

Like it, good detail and the eye contact makes it

Posted by Bronia Klima on July 28, 2010 at 4:04 PM

Worth waiting for Ian,great eye contact
Bronia

Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on July 29, 2010 at 3:25 AM

Lovely shot. I like it.

Posted by Jorne de Bruin on July 29, 2010 at 6:21 AM

Superb, love the eye peeking out!

Posted by Andy Shepherd on July 29, 2010 at 1:48 PM

Good LG image Ian, just out of curiosity, did you see any of the small furry critters ?

Andy...

Posted by Ian Macdermott on July 29, 2010 at 5:23 PM

Thanks for the feedback

Andy: I saw just the one after waiting for around 6 hours seemed to be redoing its nest and kept darting in and out. I have got another good location now.

Posted by Major Gilbert on July 29, 2010 at 6:20 PM

They don't usually sit about like this for me waiting to have their image taken.
The observant eye makes it.

Major.

Posted by Craig Jones on July 30, 2010 at 5:51 PM

Beautiful pose captured and I was here the other day and this weed is everywhere

Great shot of the eye makes the image for me Ian

Posted by David Taylor on August 1, 2010 at 9:26 AM

Eye like it a lot.

Excellent capture.