Wren gathering food for young

[Patrick]

[Stephen]

Re: Wren gathering food for young

Hi Patrick, wonder if you are asking for critique here and if so perhaps we should move the thread over there?

[Ian]

Re: Wren gathering food for young

I'd hazard a guess that Patrick isn't looking for critique - this is more about the subject than the picture.

It's pretty remarkable to capture a wren (I wouldn't even know one if it landed on me!) especially as I understand they are quite rare.

There have been some interesting spring bird pictures recently, including Stan's blue-tit feeding chick

Ian

[Patrick]

Re: Wren gathering food for young

I'd hazard a guess that Patrick isn't looking for critique - this is more about the subject than the picture.

It's pretty remarkable to capture a wren (I wouldn't even know one if it landed on me!) especially as I understand they are quite rare.

There have been some interesting spring bird pictures recently, including Stan's blue-tit feeding chick

Ian

[Pol]

Re: Wren gathering food for young

Comments are welcome, but I am not especially looking for a critique I have made my own mind up in that direction, as natural history it falls short but still remains as a record of this super little bird.

Patrick

It's a very nice record shot too. They're a joy just to watch and getting any shot is a personal thrill, yet you managed to capture I with his beak full of insects.

I'm envious - I'd probably sit watching them all day.

Pol

[Ian]

Re: Wren gathering food for young

It's a very nice record shot too. They're a joy just to watch and getting any shot is a personal thrill, yet you managed to capture I with his beak full of insects.

I'm envious - I'd probably sit watching them all day.

Pol

Yes, sometimes it's easy to forget how blessed we are with back garden wildlife - we are in the outer London suburbs (actually West Herts) sometimes get ducks landing in our garden, we have squirrels, hedgehogs, frogs, wood pigeons (as big as chickens!), jays, the various tits, sparrows, blackbirds, robins, starlings, doves, etc. No thrushes, though, which were a familiar visitor to my parents' garden when I was a lot younger.

Ian

[Patrick]

Re: Wren gathering food for young

It's a very nice record shot too. They're a joy just to watch and getting any shot is a personal thrill, yet you managed to capture I with his beak full of insects.

I'm envious - I'd probably sit watching them all day.

Pol

Hi Pol

Thought you might like another shot of the wren. They are so small its not possible to get close enough, even with the 400 end of the zoom with a 1x4 converter i'm using half the file for this picture.

Patrick

[coupekid]

Re: Wren gathering food for young

Sounds absolutely superb, lovely capture as well.

I too have a mini wildlife garden Patrick, I absolutely love it. To the untrained eye, it just looks like a jungle. My wife just bought me one of those huuuuuge long bird feeders for our wedding anniversery!

I have a pond, and a mini wildlife pond (well, the reservoire for one of those bubble ponds.....minus all the top) however, despite only having two small goldfish in the main pond, we have had no frogspawn, let alone newts! we do however, have 4 resident frogs.......maybe they just dont fancy each other So if you have any tips for next year (if we havent moved) I would be very grateful.

I also have put a pile of sticks at the bottom of the garden, and have some nice rotten wood under the willow and apple tree. I know we also have a little resident daredevil mouse (we have a cat.....but he is stupid and meows at the mouse and birds......and thats it!)

Alas, our garden is so small, so hopefully we will have something a little more substantial next year.

[Pol]

Re: Wren gathering food for young

Hi Pol

Thought you might like another shot of the wren. They are so small its not possible to get close enough, even with the 400 end of the zoom with a 1x4 converter i'm using half the file for this picture.

Patrick

Awwww ...... he/she is just so cute! I always think it's great to get these record shots, regardless of size and quality. I have loads of heavily cropped shots on disc. They'll never be printed but it's just nice to be able to look back through them and remember the character and presence of the little creatures.

We've had wrens on and off in the past but I never got any shots and we haven't seen any this year. None of the nesting boxes have been taken this year either apart from one which is being used by wasps at the moment.

Pol

[Tinka]

Re: Wren gathering food for young

Hi Patrick,
Thanks for sharing the images of the wren, a rare and lovely bird, you are lucky, both images are good, the second more so, I have a bird book in which a lot of the images (photographs) are not criticaly sharp from front to back, and these are taken by so called professional photographers, but they are sharp in the right places, ie normally the faces and flanks, close ups of the various body parts are sharp, but the images that are sharp through and through are mainly images drawn by graphic artists or such people. I think your second image is certainly good enough for bird recognition.