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Same settings on the camera, same location and light as the set of the female but different results! I got much more feather detail with the female. I must have the settings wrong! I think it's because of the contrast with the light blue sky and the jet black feathers. I'll have to try again!
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Same as normal, olive oil, casserole lid, torch, but with a whole black peppercorn, handheld, remote, Snapseed on iPad Pro.
This adult male Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) is an intermittent visitor to my garden. Usually on the hunt for other birds to prey on. As they are very territorial, I presume it's the same one each time.
Another one from the same theme as the Lily image.
I don't have much to say on this, other than my last 3 Flickr images have made Explore. So thank you to all who have felt led to comment, favourite and add me as a contact these last few weeks.
Same bloom as this but different angle. Interesting how the colour shades has drastically changed. Notice how the Fall chills and cold has affected the bloom's petals. Frostbitten.
'A bunch of Beardis'. A group of Bearded Tits pictures here with male at the top of the image and four females. Lincolnshire, UK.
Many thanks for visiting my Flickr pages...Your visits, interest, comments and kindness to 'fave' my photos is very much appreciated, Steve
Bearded Tit or Bearded Reedling Notes:-
The bearded reedling is a small, sexually dimorphic reed-bed passerine bird (Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction. The condition occurs in most animals and some plants). It is frequently known as the bearded tit, due to some similarities to the long-tailed tit, or the bearded parrotbill. It is the only species in the family Panuridae. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Panurus biarmicus
1. Not a bearded tit
Despite its name, the bearded tit is neither bearded nor a tit! It actually has a moustachioed-look to its plumage and for a while it was considered a member of the parrotbill family, but now it is thought to be more closely related to larks.
2. Reedbed inhabitant
Bearded tits are the only British songbird to stay in reedbeds all year round. Originally they were limited by the availability of reedbeds in Britain, but thanks to newly created or expanded reedbeds, they are now more widespread and can be found in parts of eastern and southern England, Morecambe Bay in northwest England and around the Tay estuary in Scotland.
3. Occasional movements
Although bearded tits are not well known for migration, there is some movement in the autumn through local dispersal. On occasion, there is also an influx of continental birds from mainland Europe. They are more gregarious outside of the breeding season, and therefore tend to be easier to see.
4. Breeding behaviour
There are only around 630 breeding pairs of bearded tits found in Britain, most likely due to the fact that they are limited by habitat. They build their nests low down in the reeds, often on piles of dead reed stems. They will use specially designed nest boxes, which were created to bypass their susceptibility to flooding. They are prolific breeders that can have up to four broods a year, with four to eight eggs per brood!
Bearded Tit/Bearded Reedling - Panurus biarmicus
© Allan Drewitt/BTO
5. Alterations
Bearded tits survive in the reedbeds all year round by changing their diet from insects during the spring and summer, to seeds in the autumn and winter. They cope with this by altering their gut morphology, and by eating large amounts of grit particles that help to grind down the tough seed fibres.
6. Vulnerability
Due to their range restriction, bearded tit populations can be vulnerable to particularly harsh winters, flooding and saltwater inundation into reedbeds. As a result local extinctions can occur. For example, in the cold winter of 1947 the East Anglian population decreased to just four or five pairs in Suffolk and a lone male in Norfolk. It is thought that the snow cover prevented them from accessing the seeds they needed to survive.
7. ‘Moustachioed tits’
Bearded tits are sandy brown with long tails, yellow bills and eyes. The males have grey heads with a conspicuous black ‘moustache’ that flanks the throat. Females are duller and lack the moustache. They have a distinctive ‘ping’ call when they fly, which you will usually hear before you see them.
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This is an earlier shot of my visit to the Liège railway station last month. I like the way the beams in the ceiling fan out to the left and the way the short arm of the clock points to the sun. The main shot of the day was the 12 o'clock - high noon shot.
This is probably one of the most photographed buildings in Belgium, so it is hard to find an original angle. On any given Sunday, there are at least 50 other enthusiasts walking around & shooting, photogs paradise!
Technical details:
Canon 1D-Mark III
Canon EF 17-40L f/4 USM
Filter: non
Exposure: 1/1000 sec.
Diaphram: f/ 7.1
ISO: 200
Focal length: 30 mm (APS-H sensor)
Partly converted to monochrome/ sharpening in PSE 6
August 22nd. 2010
© text & photos Dutch.Dennis
It has been years since I've driven up the California coast on Highway 1. I forgot just how breathtaking it is! This is i
n Big Sur, California. Such a beautiful place. The water is a beautiful Turquoise just like in the islands! I heard many people say they wished they could stand under that waterfall. I felt the same way!
Same series of images as the previous one, Severn Sunset. I'm going to try and develop this technique in an attempt to produce more evocative and emotive images than might otherwise be the case.
I panned my camera over to the left a bit and got this image. Very few trees in southern California lose their leaves entirely. It would have been quite an interesting image of this tree was stripped of all its leaves (until the spring, of course), and then be in the foreground of this beautiful sunrise. But, one has to work with what they have, under the current set of circumstances.
Vanaf acht hoog is het uitzicht altijd bijzonder. Het weer is nooit hetzelfde en de lucht is elke keer weer adembenemend mooi.
Zaandam, Nederland
From eight high, the view is always special. The weather is never the same and the sky is every time breathtakingly beautiful.
Zaandam, The Netherlands
This is a bit of a cheat, well kind of. It's a picture of two parts, both shot at the same time, same place just needing totally different exposures. If I metered for the hay truck the sky became totally washed out, which wasn't what I was seeing.
My justification is that this is what I saw if not what the camera saw - and besides I shouldn't need to justify a nice image, so I won't. So shut up then…err okay!