[Closed] Name this bird/criticise this photo

Dunnock.

Joey

It's pish.

HTH

Dunnock.

No, me neither.

Baby Robin?

sedge warbler ?

baby robin

SpokesCycles - Member
> Dunnock.
No, me neither.

The boy's gone native!

Damn you CG..you beat me ..

10 posts and only one criticism!!

FFS the OP... it's molgrips!!

Another from the same day.. still trying to get the hang of this lens.

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Same settings.

parts of it are out of focus, you should get one of those big cameras, i hear they are much betterer!

Criticise this photo? OK:

- The back end of the bird is hidden.
- Lighting not particularly dynamic.
- The angle/view is not particularly interesting/dramatic.

See that second one has much better lighting, and a far more dramatic angle on the subject.

High zoom, wide aperture, high shutter speed to compensate for camera shake.. 🙂

Mikey.. yeah I tried to get the bird to sit for a few more takes but she had to go home for her tea apparently 🙂

Re the lighting - yes, sunny is better.. but I've got a lot of flat looking shots lately in all this autumn gloom and then snow.. but the way I see it - sometimes life is flat and not well lit 🙂

My flashgun is in the post, or will be tomorrow.

The boy's gone native!

Well, glad to see I could make you owl with laughter...

A dunnock (aka hedge sparrow) is actually a very pretty little bird. Watch through binoculars to appreciate their colouring and fleck.

Nice pic molgrips. 🙂

That's nothing to crow about.

Watch the Birdie!

No need to be like that you old coot.

Come on you two, let someone else have a flamin go.

Oh no - he'll be raven mad now.

We want to be careful. This could go on all nightingale.

ost rich coming from you!

Stop being such tits all of you.

Ive got to leave you guys to it to go and cook. Who wants dinner?

It's ok, we'll carrion crow in your absence. I'll have something, but it depends what you're rooking.

stoner you can't just swan off in the middle of this thread, I know that tucan play this game but it'll be fowl without your input.

Get that bird in the oven.

Actually, I quite fancy a mince magpie.

(Props to TSY for a multi-pun)

Thanks, I'm huffing and puffin here trying to think of another decent one.

Auk at you lot.

You need to have a gander outside, perhaps go have a hoot in the snow.

Take it in terns to throw snows balls. Ducking and weavering each one.

I'll be honest, I think anything you do now will quail into insignificance after that.

BOooooooooooooooooooooooMMMM!

Is that what you spent your hour writing sharki?

Yeah, I know, no puns but I bow down in respect.

A footballers wife told me a story once, but i've never been one for old wag tails

Puns? Is it really that Ptarmigan?

I know i'm just winging it.

This is the breast i can do, with the linneted time i have.

i've pied my best here.

If you lot keep this up I'm going on shrike!

sharkis got the skills turn pay the bill.

I need to up my game, or just swallow my pride and get off to another thread swiftly

Cor! more rant from count Zero

Sounds like you're just brambling on to me sharki.

Yeah in fairness sharki you do seem to be slipping into pigeon English.

I'd love to join in with this bird related banter but I've got a nasty crack in my tooth which is making me grumpy.

Hopefully will feel more inclined to join in once I've seen the dentist and got this ****ing fissure sorted out.

I am it's true.

All this stork about birds is great. and it's good education for the myna's too.

Why do you even give a chough, Spokes, you keep on trying to match him, you'll end up bittern twisted. lots of pieces of advice i could give, stay mute's one

I'm her-on the sofa and haven't moved a finch in ages.

Just swan on in why don't you charlie..

Mocking me i know.

Robin all the good names too.

My flashgun is in the post

Won't help much at the long end of a 300mm lens ! Unless used remotely 🙂

Dinnet really care for all the puns 🙁

Larking about on the net because outside it's a night in gales or a buzzard.

You're just a bunch of bustards really.

It's not plover till the fat bird sings

Come on.

faster faster...can we trust that the next woodcock it up

gah, you guys just get fancier and fancier. I'm gul out to sea, road runner right out of names. Infact I think I'm going cuckoo.

I'm almost dunlin too.

i've turnstones looking fulmer bird names.

Much as i have enjoyed the cut and thrush of this, enjoyed you waxwing lyrical, late night jar after jar. I've enjoyed larking about, but i can stop with no egrets, from heron, your godwit will have get by without me. It's knot my scene. I don't avocet of ready puns. I've enjoyed my stint, but owl duck out here Dowitcher you please. Eider good time, but this is my swansong.

All of these puns are making me feel a bit under the feather, so I think it's about time for me to swiftly buzzard off and go to get some sleep. Let me know wren this is all over, and hopefully I'll see you all in the moorhen.

alright me shaggers

Much as i have enjoyed the cut and thrush of this, enjoyed you waxwing lyrical, late night jar after jar. I've enjoyed larking about, but i can stop with no egrets, from heron, your godwit will have get by without me. It's knot my scene. I don't avocet of ready puns. I've enjoyed my stint, but owl duck out here Dowitcher you please. Eider good time, but this is my swansong.

**** 😯

My wife has thrush.

dammit, that's not a pun 🙁

Just seen the thread.... from a photographic point of view.... Doesn't look sharp to me but that could just be the lens....also looks slightly underexposed. Focus should be on the eye, which you may have done... just can't tell as nothing looks sharp.

My wife has thrush

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Sorry folks, Charlie won the pun contest a page ago with the ptarmigan one.

Back to photography:

My flashgun is in the post
Won't help much at the long end of a 300mm lens ! Unless used remotely

I know, I was being sarcastic 🙂

just can't tell as nothing looks sharp

I know.. I know they're rubbish photos - I'm still learning and this is just me wandering around by my house waving my long one fully extended at a few birds.

Focusing on the eye is hard, focusing on the eye is hard - at effective 600mm hand held I'm lucky if you hit the bird at all. So far I've learned some things:

1) results are not as sharp at full zoom even if you shoot at 1/2500
2) wildlife photography is hard
3) the nice pics you see in magazines and stuff are the result of a) hiding in hides for hours waiting for the birds to come reasonably close, b) having a tripod and c) having really expensive kit.
4) my camera can under expose in flat light with snowy conditions.