Thankyou for the MILLION+ views!

Feels like a stretch to believe it, but I’m sure our mandarins at Flick HQ are guiltless of jiggery-pokery in these things…. 😉😉😉

If you're looking at this you probably already know that I'm mostly a bird shooter these days, with a strong preference for flight shots. Unfortunately I'm no ornithologist so I sometimes find myself looking at some indiscriminately wee brown bird and have to wonder what exactly is it that I've "landed"... Getting better, but not there yet. Seen an ID error? Feel free to let me know via pm - thankyou!

If not in flight I prefer that birds - when possible - are seen to do "bird things"; rather than just stand like an avian tailor's dummy. Flight or "doing things"; makes the pictures a little more interesting. Like preening, feeding, pecking, interacting with their fellows. But small birds, with their sudden movements and irregular flight are particularly difficult to photograph in flight, so for those I'm glad to get anything at all.

I've been fully retired for a long time now, with several interests that come and go - but photography seldom wanes, because its application is so varied it's really a spectrum of interests with a common theme.

Since flying birds remain among the toughest of photography's subjects, they're a very interesting (and frustrating) one.

They're demanding of the photographer and his kit, and it'd be easy to overspend - especially on lenses.

Sight not just as good as it's been all my life, but not dodgy enough to pack this in. Just got a new laptop and software, learning a completely different operating system at this time of life feels - far from easy. I'd grown heavily dependent on my iPads, so it seemed logical to migrate to the MacOS and integrate the two areas of usage. Still harbour doubts if this was a sound idea, or not.

Fingers Crossed.

I.G.