GARDEN DINERS
y house borders a tiny woodland strip which is home to a variety of wildlife including birds of many shapes and sizes. Frequent visitors are magpies, blackbirds, feral pigeons, woodpigeons, collared doves and crows. But the most interesting are the smaller birds, the chaffinches, bullfinches, blue tits, great tits, house sparrows and robins. These small birds are regular diners at a bird feeder in my front
people (candid and street photography), and still life/ abstract/surrealism but I recently decided to branch out a bit and try my hand at bird photography and had just bought a 100 – 400mm lens for my Fujifilm X-T2 camera when we were all sent into lockdown. I decided to use the lens to try my hand at capturing small birds in flight so this was a complete departure from my usual technique and took me well out of my comfort zone. One border of my garden
garden, and their antics and acrobatics when approaching the feeder are amazing to watch. My usual areas of photographic interest are primarily
is composed of 2 metre high dogwood which was beginning to come into leaf when I started – around late March. I placed a small bird table about 2 metres
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Male Chaffinch
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Chaffinch Landing Herald
NEIL SCOTT FRPS
CREATIVE EYE GROUP MAGAZINE NO. 83 SEPTEMBER 2020
