Just Lazy...

You can't knock 'em - Gotta love a little Blue Tit - I Filled the feeder up and sat back for an hour with the camera. Spent half the session with ISO and shutter settings too high.  Grainy images lacking detail, but that's not the birds fault!  As spring is springing now is the time to get familair with the camera settings again and test out image quality on some easy to find garden birds. 7/10 for these!

Not so common House Sparrow - The Cockney Bird of the countryside - Salt of the earth!

Muntjac Hide and Seek

Its now officially a thing... Everytime I wander around my little plot, I expect to see at least one deer, typically they are always one step ahead of me and moving in the opposite direction away from my twig-cracking footsteps. 

The Goldfiches were out in number today, probably about ten or so in in a smal flock that were doing the rounds with the LTTs.

Fieldfare, Jelly Ears and Long-tailed Tits.

 

Difficult to get a clear picture at the top of the trees, these pictures were about as good as it got from a flock of approximately 20 birds.

Jelly Ear (Edible) Fungus on Field Maple

Somehow looks angry!

Goldcrest showing why it got its name - Clearest image so far but high ISO and not quite in focus! 

Another Roe young male showing the velvet on its new year antlers.

Gang of about eight Long-Tailed T's working their way through the wood. Grainy image!

What you doing here?

 

Once again, it’s a Saturday afternoon and I'm standing in the copse waiting for the Goldcrests to show themselves from behind the laurel leaves - unobligingly, they never did, their chirps suggested that they were discussing my presence. After about 10 minutes of unsuccessful Goldcrest bingo, this young roe deer ran right up to me, almost within touching distance, he did not appear to see me and I dare not move for fear of scaring him. After a few seconds he slowly moved away and circled around the Goldcrest's laurel tree. 

I thought I had missed the opportunity, however unlike the Goldcrests, he came back into clear view a few just a few meters further away.   Not quite believing my luck, I slowly raised the camera and snapped the first picture of him feeding (tongue out); on hearing the click of camera shutter, he turned to look in my direction, I quickly snapped the second picture, and as soon as he heard the second click, he took off at pace. Had the camera been set to continuous high-speed mode, who knows what additional frames may have been captured!