More birds in the snow...

[Caz]

I bought a bird feeding station a couple of weeks ago, but haven't been at home during the day to see the birds feeding. My partner had put it up about two metre from the window, so I wasn't expecting the birds to come at all although I was pleasantly surprised to see the blue tits discovered it within a couple of days.

I had a day off last week and set up my tripod and tried out various lenses.
This was taken with a Sigma 105mm macro lens:


And these with a Tamron 70-300mm, which isn't particularly fast, so I was very pleased with them (although it was a bright cloudy day so I was able to use iso100):

[Ian]

Re: More birds in the snow...

Our feeder has been up for about a year now but the interest (apart from pigeons) has been a bit sporadic. We had a greater spotted woodie last year on the peanut feeder, but not seen one since then. We do have a friendly robin, blue tits, and a coal tit, and we get long tailed tits swooping in for a few minutes and out again not to be seen for days. We also get starlings on the feeder.

Ian

[Pops]

[Caz]

Re: More birds in the snow...

Thank you Pops and Ian for your comments.

Sparrows are not usually in shot because they feed off the floor here from what the others have knocked down (together with the pigeons).

And I've moved my old fat ball feeder from its old home across the garden to the new feeder. Thanks for the warning, I didn't know that.

Carol