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Mistle Thrush

RobL
Posted 19/12/2017 - 10:51 Link
For a while this mistle thrush has been visiting a small Rowan in my front garden, but he is very shy and I usually just see him flying away. Which is nice because I cannot remember the last time I saw one around here. This morning I was able to grab three shots through a bedroom window quickly using the 150-450mm lens on a K1 handheld, all just cropped slightly. I use a preset of TAV with 1/1000 sec and f8 but the ISOs are rather high so I have reduced the noise a bit in Lightroom; by the time I have twirled the exposure down the bird had flown (again) so I have added exposure compensation of -2/3 to the preset and see if that gets better results next time.
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malfis
Posted 19/12/2017 - 12:00 Link
Is that the Wellesbourne mistle thrush?
Lots of gear - but not a lot of idea!
RobL
Posted 19/12/2017 - 12:07 Link
malfis wrote:
Is that the Wellesbourne mistle thrush?

Is there only one then?
malfis
Posted 19/12/2017 - 12:09 Link
RobL wrote:
malfis wrote:
Is that the Wellesbourne mistle thrush?

Is there only one then?

I think that one escaped from Kineton.
Lots of gear - but not a lot of idea!
RobL
Posted 19/12/2017 - 12:21 Link
malfis wrote:
RobL wrote:
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Is that the Wellesbourne mistle thrush?

Is there only one then?

I think that one escaped from Kineton.

Clearly getting more discerning!
autumnlight
Posted 20/12/2017 - 17:09 Link
Lovely to see, i had a song thrush in my garden but wasn't able to get my camera out in time, very nice shots of the mistle thrush
pschlute
Posted 20/12/2017 - 20:16 Link
look pretty good to me.
HowardJ
Posted 21/12/2017 - 18:28 Link
Nice ones.

Haven't seen one for years, we only get the occasional thrush in the garden and they don't stay long enough or close to get a good shot of them.

Cheers,

Howard
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