What have you seen

Had a lot of waxwings in a tree behind our tyre depot yesterday morning .nice sight👍

Brian & Jo

It's surprising how where these birds of prey will sit, I saw a Buzzard on the goal posts of local school football pitch last week.

BT's are down to one distant, really was a waste of time lugging the camera....but you never know what you are going to see.  In my area they wing tag Marsh Harriers for tracking their movements and I often see and report in to the man who tags them.

This is a distant shot, but you can see the tags and be able to read them, the picture is only for the record.

One of our local birds flew down to Portugal for a bit of sun?

The attached was yesterday and my previous sighting of this bird 2 weeks back was the first time it had been seen since it was tagged last year.

Great pic GL 

The waxwing has finally found Bristol. only a few in awful weather but managed a pic that needed a fair bit of lightening in photoshop as it was nearly dark, will try again tomorrow if they return.

The waxwing has finally found Bristol. only a few in awful weather but managed a pic that needed a fair bit of lightening in photoshop as it was nearly dark, will try again tomorrow if they return.

You do need sunshine, blue sky to fully show off these birds.  I saw a waxwing some years back, late PM in winter and it was really gloomy, but I did take some really crappy pic's.  I was happy just seeing them and emailed my b-in-law just to show him how with a bit of brightness it might have been a good picture.

I didn't know it, but he worked on it with photoshop and the difference was amazing, he bought out all the colour, sharpness and made it a very good picture.  BUT.......it wasn't the picture I took!  So I can't take any credit for the picture and have filed it away.  BM for your record...these will be good pictures, tomorrow with some brightness, no doubt you will take better.

Waxwings when they came here would let you stand very close to the berry tree, just had to be patient and ready and hit the shutter button and hope.

The waxwings in Norwich were feeding on a tree that had some sunshine illuminating a brick wall and some autumn colour in the background, just made the pictures.

Good luck.

Hi GL

you are correct about the need for light to raise the pic. Even with photoshop, it was impossible to get a decent photographic representation of the scene. It doesn't look good for the rest of the week either. Very disapointing having toured the rowan trees for the best part of a month in bright sunshine.

Photoshop is a great tool to rescue or enhance pics. I doubt if many advertising or fashion pics exist without considerable enhancement, but true representation is important in the natural world.

I worked for many years as a freelance sport photographer and alterations were not permitted, as editorial pics should be genuine records of an event.

I am hoping there will be a chink of light sometime before the berries run out.

BM....I am truly humbled...conversing with a proper photographer.  I am just a bloke with a camera who understands very little about how camera's work.  I seem to know enough to get some half decent pic's for someone with my level of ability..

I have only had the DSLR's since turning 60...so around 10 years, I have only tried to record what nature I see as I go.  My wife got fed up with me using a point n shoot at birds so she bought the DSLR for me.

 If you start talking about settings and different lens sizes...I will glaze over as I have no idea about most of it.

On a slightly different thing, I have just put a USB stick in my blueray player and watched the Bearded tits on the TV screen...they really do show well in HD.

Good luck.

GL, You jest

I am sure that any man who knows about blueray and usb stick"s probably knows more about camera settings than he may admit.

Birds turned up on time but the weather was no better. More photographers than birds today.

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