First Young

Here's a shot from this morning, it wasn't the first young bird I was expecting to see but made for a nice photo anyway.

It's a young Starling, as usual with Starlings I heard a lot of noise coming from the garden and when I checked it out the adult was feeding two young, I just managed to take a few photos when the camera shutter spooked them and they flew off.

The first shot is the young bird followed by the adult, quite a difference..

Photos taken with Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm @ 400mm

Hopefully I will be able to get some young blue, coal or great tits, fingers crossed.

Mike.

Garden Invasion

I have had the odd Starling in my garden, but never like today.

I heard all this commotion coming from the garden, when I looked out the conservatory window we had 5 Starlings all fighting for the food at my feeding station, and boy where they going at it.

To try and explain what I have done with my feeding station to help with my photos, I found a dead branch in the woods behind my house, with that I attached it around the hanging feeders, this is then used by the birds to perch before dropping onto the food and hopefully give a more natural and eye pleasing photo, you may see the same branch with a different bird on it come up a lot in my future posts.

You will see what I mean when you see the starling pictures below, the 1st two pics show the starling on a feeder and the 2nd two with the Starlings further up the branch. Good idea I thought.

Photos taken with Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm lense.