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7 birds from a suffolk winter garden

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jim mij Senior Member • Posts: 1,035
7 birds from a suffolk winter garden
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hi, although the light wasn't great yesterday (hence high iso, open apertures, slow shutter) i did manage to get a collection of our typical garden birds

4 tits, 2 finches (one which i'd never seen before) and a robin

All had a quick edit & crop in luminar 4

long trailed tit, usually comes around in groups, so tiny, one of the cutest birds

coal tit

blue tit, we get dozens of these

great tit

goldfinch, one of the more colourful garden birds

greenfinch, never seen one here before, not the best images as its a blend of 3, i just wasn't ready...

and finally an underexposed robin

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Red Barchetta
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Re: 7 birds from a suffolk winter garden

Some very nice images, low light or not.

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Beautiful portraits all. Thanks for sharing.

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It looks like you had lovely soft light Jim and took some very nice portraits at moderate shutter speeds.

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OP jim mij Senior Member • Posts: 1,035
Re: 7 birds from a suffolk winter garden

Red Barchetta wrote:

Some very nice images, low light or not.

Thanks Red, if the light every improves I’ll try again

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Mikel10 wrote:

Beautiful portraits all. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Mike

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Morris0 wrote:

It looks like you had lovely soft light Jim and took some very nice portraits at moderate shutter speeds.

Morris

Thanks morris, I’ll try and remember your positives going forward, eg it’s not poor light it’s lovely and soft 👍

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ANAYV Forum Pro • Posts: 23,924
Re: 7 birds from a suffolk winter garden

Really nice set.

Good details and compositions.

I wouldn't say these are high ISO.  Maybe 10 years ago I for sure would of.

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OP jim mij Senior Member • Posts: 1,035
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ANAYV wrote:

Really nice set.

Good details and compositions.

I wouldn't say these are high ISO. Maybe 10 years ago I for sure would of.

ANAYV

Thanks Anayv, I’m coming from macro and iso 100, I’m not used to spots or having to work to get rid of them

Jim

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Avian2016 Veteran Member • Posts: 7,393
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Super cool thsese images. My fav is the first one. I'm nuts over these ultra-tiny tits.

I can see them only now and there and only while sweeping-by in a small group. Sometimes they have companions, blue tits.

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Avian2016 wrote:

Super cool thsese images. My fav is the first one. I'm nuts over these ultra-tiny tits.

I can see them only now and there and only while sweeping-by in a small group. Sometimes they have companions, blue tits.

They seem to come around usually a group of several, sometimes you can’t see the feeder for them, one landed the other day as I was putting in new seed, I don’t know who was more shocked…

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Nice shots.  I live in the USA but I grew up in England so these are all birds I remember so well they make me a little bit homesick.

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stevevp Contributing Member • Posts: 679
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Lovely photos. I'm very jealous! Apart from the Coal Tit which I've never seen, the rest used to be frequent visitors to our garden but now we're lucky to see the odd blackbird.

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OP jim mij Senior Member • Posts: 1,035
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Blufftonian wrote:

Nice shots. I live in the USA but I grew up in England so these are all birds I remember so well they make me a little bit homesick.

Yeah but think of all the colourful birds you get over there, amazing ones from humming birds to eagles

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stevevp wrote:

Lovely photos. I'm very jealous! Apart from the Coal Tit which I've never seen, the rest used to be frequent visitors to our garden but now we're lucky to see the odd blackbird.

Growing up all I remember were sparrows and blackbirds, it’s funny how this region has an abundance of blue and great tits, hence my amazement at seeing the finches

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jim mij wrote:

Blufftonian wrote:

Nice shots. I live in the USA but I grew up in England so these are all birds I remember so well they make me a little bit homesick.

Yeah but think of all the colourful birds you get over there, amazing ones from humming birds to eagles

Jim

Well, there is that Jim and I try to make the most of North American birds, but blue tits, greenfinches, bullfinches, linnets, pied wagtails, etc. will always be special to me.

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Very nice captures

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Very nice Jim- Love the Greenfinch, a bird I seldom see here  on my patch

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OP jim mij Senior Member • Posts: 1,035
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Lez325 wrote:

Very nice Jim- Love the Greenfinch, a bird I seldom see here on my patch

Thanks les, I think it was a tourist visiting the town, I’ve not seen it since

Jim

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jim mij wrote:

Lez325 wrote:

Very nice Jim- Love the Greenfinch, a bird I seldom see here on my patch

Thanks les, I think it was a tourist visiting the town, I’ve not seen it since

Jim

Iv's heard more than I see- I live close to a large wood- not actually seen one since 2021

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