Wild Birds of Europe

[Levina de Ruijter]

It was really worth going out, judging by this result

Thanks, Jan! You're too kind. I think the Great tit looks nice. He was in the right spot. But the chaffinch: white sky, flat light, ugh... I just liked the feathers ruffled by the wind.

 

[Jan1977]

Thanks, Jan! You're too kind. I think the Great tit looks nice. He was in the right spot. But the chaffinch: white sky, flat light, ugh... I just liked the feathers ruffled by the wind.

The great tit has a nice background and it is sharp and properly exposed. The chaffinch due to the lighting condition shows crisp details, like you mentioned the ruffled feathers. You can reaaly see the bird, so despite the white background it is still a nice photo in my opinion.

 

[Jan1977]

Here is a chaffinch I encountered recently. Better light in the background than in your photo, but the bird is less clear due to shade and tree clutter

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Here is a chaffinch I encountered recently. Better light in the background than in your photo, but the bird is less clear due to shade and tree clutter
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There's always something, isn't there? These are nice though. Way better light. Male chaffinches are very beautiful.

By the way, was it cold that day too?

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

The great tit has a nice background and it is sharp and properly exposed. The chaffinch due to the lighting condition shows crisp details, like you mentioned the ruffled feathers. You can reaaly see the bird, so despite the white background it is still a nice photo in my opinion.

Thank you so much! It's not that bad but the light was so "schraal", thin, I don't quite know how to put it in English. So colours aren't rich the way they are in nice light.

 

[PhotoNut]

Here is a chaffinch I encountered recently. Better light in the background than in your photo, but the bird is less clear due to shade and tree clutter
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I like the blue coloured water drops hanging from the branches and twigs.

 

[Jan1977]

There's always something, isn't there? These are nice though. Way better light. Male chaffinches are very beautiful.

By the way, was it cold that day too?

Yes it was quite a cold day, but there was little wind, which made it acceptable. The chaffinch photos were taken when the sun broke through, earlier that morning there was clear frost on the vegetation and locally some ice on the water.

 

[Jan1977]

I like the blue coloured water drops hanging from the branches and twigs.

They do add to the atmosphere indeed. The blue also nicely contrasts with some of the background color shades.

 

[RichardB]

There's not a lot in it, raven can be slightly larger at the big end, see here https://focus-on-photography.net/threads/wild-birds-of-europe-duck.72/post-3392

Yes. My Collins field guide gives the wing-span of Buzzard as 110–130 cm and the wing-span of Raven as 115–130 cm. Sex size will account for the ranges, I imagine.

That's surprising. Not what you expect. Thanks.

 

[pcs]

Another Blackbird