Birds with attitude
 

I don't often take photos of birds, but I have seen lots of character in a wide range of birds today from Ducks to Ravens to Robins. A lot of birds by Windermere are getting rather 'frisky' and some poor female ducks are getting jumped by 6 drakes at a time! Sorry there's so many but I actually really like these! They are all taken with my 100mm macro lens which is SOO sharp!

1. Canon 5D mk III EF 100mm macro at f/10 1/80 ISO 400

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/6939854940/]Here's-looking-at-you[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

2. The ducks appear to be squaring up:

f/11 1/125 ISO 400

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/6939858334/]Male-ducks-squaring-up[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

3. I'd like to know what they are saying to each other!

f/11 1/125 ISO 400

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7085932255/]What-ARE-they-saying-[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

4. This Raven decided to perch himself at a cafe:

f/9 1/160 ISO 640

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/6939857454/]jackdaw-looking-sideways[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

5. f/9 1/200 ISO 640

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7085929591/]jackdaw-looking-up[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

6. I think this Robin is ordering some cake for table 29

f/9 1/640 ISO 640

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7085928929/]Tea-and-cake-to-Table-29-please![/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

7. I think he enjoyed it

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/6939855674/]Robin-and-crumbs-at-Chesters[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

Nice series of images there, I like the robin and Jackdaw shots best. I was just thinking people sit in a hide for hours on end and you drink tea, eat cake and get great bird photos I know which I perfer LOL.

there were some seagulls with character at the ferry embarkation point on an Island about 60km west of Seoul, Korea:

Canon 5D mk III EF 24 - 70 at 52mm and f/11 1/1000 ISO 500

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7143690017/]Three-korean-seagulls[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

The local stores in North West (South) Korea - (the locals don't call it South Korea, just Korea) sell fish sticks to feed the gulls, although they are much less aggressive than the ones to be found on UK beaches. They can actually be quite graceful. These shots were taken fairly wide and haven't been cropped very much at all as the birds were circling fairly low

Canon 5D mk III EF 24 - 70L f/11 and 62mm 1/1000 ISO 500

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/6999416882/]seagull-in-flight[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

Same camera/lens at f/11 and 60mm 1/1000 ISO 500

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7145504271/]seagull![/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

f/11 52mm 1/1000 ISO 500

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7145597989/]Two-gulls[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

f/11 54mm 1/1000 ISO 500

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7145617653/]two-birds-for-the-price-of-one[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

Some Korean birds (kinds of heron I would suspect)

Canon 5D mk III EF 180mm f/3.5L macro at f/8 1/2000 ISO 250

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7194869336/]korean-heron[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

same camera/lens/settings

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7194869580/]white-lorean-heron[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

A Raven keeps watch for his partner in crime while she picks up some leftover bread at a waterside cafe in Ambleside

Canon 5D mk III EF 28 - 300L at f/8 and 300mm 1/125 ISO 800

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7433334800/]Waterhead-jackdaws[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

The 7D has come in handy as it gives me better reach, plus 10 fps can be very useful, especially with birds that don't hang about long. Managed to get a little story together out of some of them: (all with 7D and 180 macro)

First a blackbird:

Canon 7D EF 180 f/3.5L macro at f/5.6 and 1/80 ISO 500

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7446688452/]blackbird2[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

f/5.6 1/320 ISO 500: the blackbird's been at the chocolate cake!

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7446685082/]blackbird's-been-at-the-chocolate-cake![/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

and peeking through the bars

f/5.6 1/125 ISO 400

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7446686010/]blackbird[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

Then along came a family of tits - either blue tits or crested tits - I suspect blue:

Here's the mother:

(pity I cut the tail off, but more to help with species identification as I'm not usually a birder)

f/5.6 1/1000 ISO 500

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7446686998/]parent-tit[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

here's one of the adolescents

f/5.6 1/400 ISO 500

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7446684294/]Juvenile-tit[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

one flies away while a blue tit looks for food:

f/5.6 1/320 ISO 500

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7446697716/]Blue-tits-[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

"Can I have some cake?"

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7446696328/]Can-I-have-some-of-that-cake-mummy-[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

"Oh Go, On, please! I promise I'll be good!"

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7446694112/]I-promise-I'll-be-good![/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

(sulks)

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7446693238/](sulks)[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

"Oh Go on then..."

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7446692224/]Oh-Go-on-then!-Here-you-go[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

"Look Mr Photographer, look what I've got!"

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7446691178/]Ha!-Ha!-Look-Mr-photographer,-look-what-I've-got![/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

"Please mummy, can I have some more?"

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7446690288/]Oh-goody-can-I-have-some-more-[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

"Yum Yum!"

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7446689316/]Yum!-Yum![/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

A nice set of bird images there well captured. You didn't even have to get up from your cafe seat. I hope your cappucino didn't get cold.

[QUOTE=JonnyM;80012]A nice set of bird images there well captured. You didn't even have to get up from your cafe seat. I hope your cappucino didn't get cold.[/QUOTE]

lol I decided to go with the 7D and longer lenses because the crumbs at te cafe always attract a lot of birds

Just over half a mile away from Chester's cafe is Elterwater which is Norse for Swan Lake. To make it ppropriate, there were a pair of swans by the shore preening and cleaning.

Canon 7D EF 180L macro f/7.1 1/400 ISO 400

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7447605364/]elterwater-swan[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7447604068/]elterwater-swan2[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

f/8 1/400 ISO 200

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7447601870/]wlterwater-swan3[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

f/7.1 1/500 ISO 400

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7447602864/]elterwater-swan4[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr

f/8 1/320 ISO 200

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[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/singingsnapper/7447600708/]Elterwater-swan5[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/singingsnapper/]singingsnapper[/url], on Flickr