This morning I setup the Bushnell Natureview close to the Peanut Feeder in the garden, I was hoping for the Woodpecker to show, but it must of been working away.
There was a variety of birds visiting, here is a collection of the Blue Tit visits.
{Remember to watch in HD if possible}This photo of a Shortie is taken into the Sunrise. It wasn’t too long after the sun had come above the tree line (just to the right of shot). The camera’s light meter is taking it’s reading from the light around the Owl. The light shinning through it’s wings was very bright which results in the camera underexposing the Owl add that to the -1 stop of exposure I had dialled in making the shot even darker and giving this backlit effect. Of course, post editing in Lightroom was needed to give the final effect.
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This morning I was again out well before first light in hope that the Short Eared Owls would co-operate.
Over the last few trips, I’ve fired off around 20 shots, this morning I’ve almost 900 shots to go through and it’ll take a while to go through them all.
It was an amazing sighting this morning with both Owls flying around looking for food. In fact, there may have been 3 different Owls, but that’s not confirmed. I also heard 2 Little Owls calling to each other too.
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So today, I set up the Bushnell Natureview with the 60cm closeup lens attached and positioned it on a tripod 60cm from one of the Nyger Feeders. I was hoping for a Goldfinch on each perch, but of course, that happened on the other feeder! However, I still got some close up footage of a Goldfinch cracking open the Nyger seeds.
{Remember to watch in HD if possible}I was going to setup my Temporary Reflection Pool today but the cloud cover was far too great for anything decent. There was a brief moment where the light became a little brighter and I noticed that the House Sparrows were taking a drink from a particular place in the pond, so maybe no need for the Reflection Pool.
Of course, by the time I had got the camera ready, the cloud cover came back. I did manage to snap one photo of this Male at the pond.
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I decided to have another look through some of my rejected photos of the Short Eared Owls I’ve recently been getting up early for. None of them will make my Flickr Album but even though this shot is both a bit boring (just a side on-shot) and quality isn’t great, I love the sunrise colours of the whole scene so thought I’d share.
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Whilst waiting for the sun to come up I thought I’d shoot some film of one of the Owls flying as it was too dark for photos. However, there were a lot of Crows flying around and the Owl would not leave the tree in fear of being mobbed. As the video shows, he was keeping a keen eye on it’s surroundings.
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