What's Buzzin' or Flying Near You Today..? MK 3..

Well, there was nothing out of the ordinary on the feeders yesterday, but there was a large number of birds queuing up to grab some lunch.

 

Hi Armandll great photos my friend

 

Lovely shots Woo!! The shots I took in my last post was using the 320mm lens from around 30 yards away on the other side of the garden so I was some distance away and not using a tripod so they were not as close I would have liked.
Anyway, today I had a dinner meeting outside Manchester and so was able to get back home early afternoon. So, trying to be clever, I decided to get within 15 yards of the feeders, with the 320mm lens and use a tripod. I focused on one feeder, put the camera in remote control mode and sat in the Green House waiting for the birds to appear. After a while I decided to check the focus and stepped out and looked through the view finder...and everything was fine. But looking up there are around 8 Long Tailed Tits feeding away only 6' away from me on a Fat Ball feeder. So there I am with a camera set up and focused on a Seed feeder 15 yards away while all the action is taking place only 6' away from me .........clever thinking, Eh!!!

 

Thank you Armandll my friend ,yes that can be very frustrating, I was using my 55 x 20 DX/VR Nikpn lens its a lovely quality but not quite near enough Have been looking at the Sigma 50 x 500 lens for a couple of years now,but the price has never gone down so its still out of my reach

 

Not had much time today to take a lot of pics, but here's the Fat Feeder with Tits on it. Depending on the weather, which doesn't look like being good for a few days!, I'll try to get some shots of it with a cluster of them feeding on it.

 

Looks good ARMANDII

We still have all our regular birds and the three families of robins still consider the space around the feeders as neutral land and never squabble there.

Since the snow has been on the ground we've had an interesting situation. Every morning we find a pile of snail shells on our, covered, front step. Obviously there is some bird that can't find a hard surface to break them on because of the snow. Quite enterprising of him/her

Not very good photos but there's at least this amount each morning.

 

On my walk this morning

 

Seagulls