Jay

Taken from the hide out in my yard.

Compared to the other garden birds, these jays are massive, luckily I use a zoom lens and can quickly zoom out when they land, well, that's the plan anyway, quite often they're just too quick for me

For such a big bird they are very timid, one click of the shutter and they're off so you have to "wait until you can see the whites of their eyes" as they say, before firing.

They have tiny feet too but don't be fooled by their looks, I've seen one swoop down and kill a smaller bird and fly off with it, they can be nasty when they want to be.

I was only about 9 feet or so away when I took this.

Sony A350
Tamron 200-500 (borrowed off my son)
1/200th second
f8
ISO 400
200mm
+0.3 stop exposure compensation
Centre-weighted metering
Tripod

Cracking details Geoff in this capture, the warm tones of the background really compliment the bird too
Lee

Excellent capture, something I still did not nail yet.

Great detail and nice background and in good soft light.Just needs a little more at the base,for the tail.

Phil.

Nit covered on what is a superb shot, lkng the light and the detail

Lovely capture of these Shy birds Geoff. More at the bottom would have been nice, but I know not possible! Still it's further back now
Paul.

A stunner! Colours and detail are superb. I can't get within 100yds of these (yet).

A difficult subject so well done lovely image, detail is lovely

A hard bird to shoot and some great colours, I agree about the lack of space at the bottom for the tail.

Oscar

All been said about the tail, but the benefit of losing the tail is that there is some cracking feather detail. Hope you will show us some more from the yard.

David

Nit covered Geoff a great image and stunning background

Have the council got for poll tax on that hide yet ?

More canvas right , but a super capture.

Superb shot Geoff


Minor nits covered

Super...like the bg, the twig and the tones and colours! Its a beaut.

Ian