Resting Songy

Just a quick post, before fingers crossed the rain holds off and I can get out later to Formby.

I am hoping to see some Red Squirrels which are making a slow come back since they where nearly wiped out by Squirrel Pox and then possibly down to the dunes for more butterflies, but its all on the weather...

I am also going to try a different macro adapter, normally I use a x4, but tonight I am just going to try a x2 I am hoping this will get similar results without having to get as close, I can only try.

So for todays photo, I spotted this resting song thrush this morning and couldn't resist.

Photo taken with Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm @ 500mm

So all going well I will try and do another post later or tomorrow depending on how long it takes to go through and edit the pics.

Mike.

Scotland (5) - Feeding time

Feeding time and obviously a lot of mouths to feed, the song thrushes where quite numerous around the site, I was lucky enough to get quite close to this one and get a few shots off.

The shots are as follows 1 & 2). Song Thrush, 3). Blackbird, 4). ?

I'm not too sure of the ID on the last shot, I believe it is a pipit of some sort, looks like a meadow to me, can anyone help with the ID.

Just one more to go..

Songy Morning.

Thanks for the Id from Warren Baker this is actually a Song Thrush, so my post now reads.

I feel like I have been watching this Song Thrush all day, and everytime I put my camera down it would show up again.

Similar in size to the Redwing shown in my earlier post, this also has been eating the berries, unfortunatley though I never managed to catch it eating.

I had just given up hope when I noticed it sat on my neighbours climbing plant about 8-10 mtrs away.

Although I have seen these birds in my garden before they too only seem to appear for the berries and then disappear.