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Some cuckoo shots from Friday ok not the best wish I had used f4 more instead of f2.8 for flighty shots , as subject real close and on inspection dof to shallow for my preference ,either that and kept me distance more .

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Thanks for posting Paul. Don't think I've ever seen a photo of a Cuckoo before. Interesting to see one. Nice work.
 
Paul, many thanks for posting these. All great copies as no doubt not simple at the time.

I have heard them from afar but never seen in this quality. They are on my most wanted list. I should imagine you were really pleased with this opportunity. and you delivered.
 
Great opportunity, well captured
 
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Paul, many thanks for posting these. All great copies as no doubt not simple at the time.

I have heard them from afar but never seen in this quality. They are on my most wanted list. I should imagine you were really pleased with this opportunity. and you delivered.
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As easy as it can be to be honest with a bird trained to come to meal worm very easy it is almost like a captive bird ,
 
great images as usual Paul. crisp and colorful.

why does your EXIF never show up?

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Not sure nothing above iso 1000 nothing below iso 400 90 % at iso 800 f2.8-f4 all shutter speeds above 1/1000 th
 

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I would be delighted to have shot these Paul, its a bird I have yet to see, let alone try to photograph, nice work
 
Nice shots. I thought I recognised Colin!
 
Many thanks for the trade secrets Paul :-)

I put out meal worms in our back garden but best we get are starlings, sparrows, dunnock, collared doves and pigeons. We used to have regular visitors of blue tits, long-tailed tits, goldfinches, greenfinches, the odd chaffinch and regular robins and blackbirds but we are now rather depleted. We did have a visiting sparrow hawk which was responsible, I think for chasing away our charm of goldfinches but even that has not been seen this year?

Thankfully I still have the Attenborough Nature Reserve within walking distance but even that is not as active as it was? However they do have a successful Sand Martin hide.

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Well done Paul to get a Cuckoo so close up. BTW, none of the camera settings show, is there a reason for that?
 
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Not sure nothing above iso 1000 nothing below iso 400 90 % at iso 800 f2.8-f4 all shutter speeds above 1/1000 th
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Very nice images!

As I see that you're a gearhead with a nice assortment of 20mp bodies and a couple of bags-full of lenses - most all of which can make 2.8 - please let the rest of us gearheads know what you shot the tamed big guy with with!

Pete
 
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Very nice set of photos of an interesting subject

They are not visiting often birds` feeder, so good that you took the chance to get some nice pictures

Just curious which lens did you used'

best regards

Stefano
 
very good, these shots. great variety of "poses". Thanks for sharing
 
Brian Wadie said:
I would be delighted to have shot these Paul, its a bird I have yet to see, let alone try to photograph, nice work
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Swap you Cuckoo for dartfords
 
Pete Berry said:
paul cool said:
Not sure nothing above iso 1000 nothing below iso 400 90 % at iso 800 f2.8-f4 all shutter speeds above 1/1000 th
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Very nice images!

As I see that you're a gearhead with a nice assortment of 20mp bodies and a couple of bags-full of lenses - most all of which can make 2.8 - please let the rest of us gearheads know what you shot the tamed big guy with with!

Pete
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All bar one I used Panasonic Leica 200mm f2.8 for the majority which park cameras at the wildlife weekend they were selling for £1200 what a steal you could of purchased this and sold it on for a profit.
 
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