Birds with attitude

[Singing snapper]

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


Here's-looking-at-you by singingsnapper, on Flickr

2. The ducks appear to be squaring up:

f/11 1/125 ISO 400


Male-ducks-squaring-up by singingsnapper, on Flickr

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

f/11 1/125 ISO 400


What-ARE-they-saying- by singingsnapper, on Flickr

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

f/9 1/160 ISO 640


jackdaw-looking-sideways by singingsnapper, on Flickr

5. f/9 1/200 ISO 640


jackdaw-looking-up by singingsnapper, on Flickr

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

f/9 1/640 ISO 640


Tea-and-cake-to-Table-29-please! by singingsnapper, on Flickr

7. I think he enjoyed it


Robin-and-crumbs-at-Chesters by singingsnapper, on Flickr

[wavemachine]

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.

[Singing snapper]

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


Three-korean-seagulls by singingsnapper, on Flickr

[Singing snapper]

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


seagull-in-flight by singingsnapper, on Flickr

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


seagull! by singingsnapper, on Flickr

f/11 52mm 1/1000 ISO 500


Two-gulls by singingsnapper, on Flickr

f/11 54mm 1/1000 ISO 500


two-birds-for-the-price-of-one by singingsnapper, on Flickr

[Singing snapper]

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


korean-heron by singingsnapper, on Flickr

same camera/lens/settings


white-lorean-heron by singingsnapper, on Flickr

[Singing snapper]

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


Waterhead-jackdaws by singingsnapper, on Flickr

[Singing snapper]

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


blackbird2 by singingsnapper, on Flickr

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


blackbird's-been-at-the-chocolate-cake! by singingsnapper, on Flickr

and peeking through the bars

f/5.6 1/125 ISO 400


blackbird by singingsnapper, 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


parent-tit by singingsnapper, on Flickr

here's one of the adolescents

f/5.6 1/400 ISO 500


Juvenile-tit by singingsnapper, on Flickr

one flies away while a blue tit looks for food:

f/5.6 1/320 ISO 500


Blue-tits- by singingsnapper, on Flickr

"Can I have some cake?"

1/640


Can-I-have-some-of-that-cake-mummy- by singingsnapper, on Flickr

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


I-promise-I'll-be-good! by singingsnapper, on Flickr

(sulks)


(sulks) by singingsnapper, on Flickr

"Oh Go on then..."

1/400


Oh-Go-on-then!-Here-you-go by singingsnapper, on Flickr

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

1/400


Ha!-Ha!-Look-Mr-photographer,-look-what-I've-got! by singingsnapper, on Flickr

"Please mummy, can I have some more?"

1/400


Oh-goody-can-I-have-some-more- by singingsnapper, on Flickr

"Yum Yum!"

1/320


Yum!-Yum! by singingsnapper, on Flickr

[JonnyM]

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.

[Singing snapper]

Originally Posted by JonnyM

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.

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

[Singing snapper]

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


elterwater-swan by singingsnapper, on Flickr


elterwater-swan2 by singingsnapper, on Flickr

f/8 1/400 ISO 200


wlterwater-swan3 by singingsnapper, on Flickr

f/7.1 1/500 ISO 400


elterwater-swan4 by singingsnapper, on Flickr

f/8 1/320 ISO 200


Elterwater-swan5 by singingsnapper, on Flickr