3 Birds on a stick

Wood Pigeons
These three alighted on my trusty old stump just after the jay cleared off to be sick somewhere else.
The good thing about pool photography is that you can stick perches up all over the place and birds are almost certain to use them- so you have two choices -puddle or perch.
D7000
Sigma 50-500mm
500 ISO 250th @f11
Slight crop
Paint Shop Pro 7 ( )I think they,re on v12 now
CZM high pass
Thanks for comments on my last pic.
Cheers
JR

The small aperture has worked well for you, John. There is a good idea of the habitat, and all three birds are in focus. Nice job.

David

Well worth looking at the bigger one. I don't know why but the background seems to be more dominant in the smaller image. I like the way they are all facing the same direction with their heads on different levels.

Thanks
Robert - funny it does ! Must be a "hoptical " illusion !
Ony two out of about 30 shots with the heads right by the way.
Cheers
JR

Buzzard bait grows on trees? Brill. Nice that they are all looking the same way!

Lovely detail and an interesting shot

Lovely detail and an interesting shot

Another one of my bogey birds . Agree with Robert re the small image, you have to look at the large version as it has a totally different feel to it. It's a good looking image of an under photographed species; under photographed in my case because I can never get close to the bloody things

Nice one, John.

Andy...

Yes the larger one works very well. 2 out 30 John, bet you would not have done that on slide

Bob

Large version looks great. I like it a lot. Well done.