Posted by John Robinson on August 23, 2010 at 12:08 PM
Sand Martin
This is the last shot I got of the martins. Now all gone.
Something started getting at them by jumping up the bank which we had sliced fairly steeply. I am almost sure it was cats -going by the claw marks.
D200
Sigma 50-500
Late evening sunlight
80th @f7.1
500ISO
JR
Posted by John Robinson on August 23, 2010 at 7:36 PM
Thanks all
Not wishing to appear soppy but when you spend a lot of time with a family of birds as I did this year (Like with the Martins and the Owls ) you get to feel as though you are so fortunate to share their every day goings on. Yet at the end of it you cant help wondering what happens to each individual you have been watching and what happened to it. We like to think our photography has helped the species and in the case of the Little Owls and the Martins it really has. Ther is no way the farmer is going to to do anything to upset the little owls breeding next year , and the quarry owners are going to sheer face the bank again and restrict their activities as far away as possible, for at least two years.
So yes ! Bird photography does help because if I hadn't brought it to their attention - who knows what ?
JohnR
Posted by Phil Mclean on August 24, 2010 at 7:13 AM
Not soppy at all John.Great attitude and another lovely image too.
Phil.
Posted by Brett Lewis on August 24, 2010 at 9:20 AM
Good work all round John, for photography and conservation.. Big thumbs up..
Discussion
10 repliesThis is the last shot I got of the martins. Now all gone.
Something started getting at them by jumping up the bank which we had sliced fairly steeply. I am almost sure it was cats -going by the claw marks.
D200
Sigma 50-500
Late evening sunlight
80th @f7.1
500ISO
JR
What a pretty bird it is too, I hope it escaped from the cat.
Well done.
Geoff
Another super Sandy John, you have captured some great feather detail and the image shows off the wings very well, nice one.
Andy...
Calum
John
lovely light
Not wishing to appear soppy but when you spend a lot of time with a family of birds as I did this year (Like with the Martins and the Owls ) you get to feel as though you are so fortunate to share their every day goings on. Yet at the end of it you cant help wondering what happens to each individual you have been watching and what happened to it. We like to think our photography has helped the species and in the case of the Little Owls and the Martins it really has. Ther is no way the farmer is going to to do anything to upset the little owls breeding next year , and the quarry owners are going to sheer face the bank again and restrict their activities as far away as possible, for at least two years.
So yes ! Bird photography does help because if I hadn't brought it to their attention - who knows what ?
JohnR
Phil.
Brett