BIF Heligan

A few from the hide @ Heligan, been a few times and decided to give this a go, these blighters are super quick making the transition from the cover of the bushes to the feeders, picked a feeder to focus on that wasn't the typical round thingy with a tube.

All K3iii with DFA* 70 - 200 @ f5.6 ish - ISO 1600 as the light wasn't great, 1/1600th sec

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Nice set Chris,

I like the subtle colours as well...very natural looking.

Regards

Karlo

Well done , your patience paid off

Nice piccies taken at a lovely place

Any photos of the gardens?

Thanks John

A few but not many, not much in bloom yet, we've a locals pass so its a place to pop back to quite often as its a short hop away.

very nice set. I like No 5 very much - shallow depth of field, notion of movement.

Wonderful use of a great find ! (what's in that feeder??)

Don't know, but it was attracting Great Tit's, Robins, Sparrows and Bull Finches but not Gold Finches as they constantly went to another feeder

Really good set of bird shots. Well worth the time and effort to get that tiny fraction of a second before they've grabbed the food and gone.

Did you take single shots, or continuous and select the best of the sequence?

A general seed mix will get great tits. robins and sparrows to my feeders. Also chaffinches. Can't speak for bullfinches, they're a rarity around here.

Steve

Thanks Steve

The birds were so fast moving from cover to feeder I had to use continuous and select the best of the sequence, generally it was pick one from three or poss four.

I'd tried it on a prev visit handheld but there was no way of following the bird or selecting which one would land on which feeder as there was 4 feeders for the birds to choose from.

I set the camera up on a tripod with a wider view than required and watched the action over the camera and pressed the shutter button when it looked like a bird would make the move to the feeder. These are a decent crop as the lens was a 70/200 F2.8 as the light wasn't brilliant, when the light improves I will try the 150/450

150 images shot for 15 in total I was pleased with, so a 10% success rate

Excellent set. Agree with all of the above. Nature shots like this are so difficult and patience is so necessary. Great work.