[Unit]

Hi Roy,

Thanks for the comments on the photo's, its great to get positive feed back after putting in quite afew hours in the hide.

Yeah I love that Robin - he sat there for about 1/2 a minute singing his little heart out - I assume a challenge to his rivals as he claimed my little bit of england for himself. They are cheeky little buggers, he sat on one end of that branch while i was tying the other end to a bit of 4"x2" that i had nailed upright to a plank. I didnt seem to phase him one bit.

Hopefully I will translate some of the practise to birds in the wild. I am thinking about setting up a feeder on a local patch of scrubland to try and use flowering hawthorn etc as a different background. Does anyone see a problem with this - other than it being nicked the minute i leave ? I will be using broken bits of sunflower seed as i have heard that nyger is a rampant grower and i think its from africa (so not a natural plant for the uk)

By the way Will if your reading this - be carefull of your exposure if you are planning on using camo netting as your background. It sucks up light like no ones business causing the camera to overexpose - Check your histogram but i have found that 1.2 - 1.7 negative exposure compensation is needed at times. I usually take a couple of test shots every half hour or so of the different perches and then adjust accordingly.

I work on the premise that if the perch looks the same on the screen as it does by eye then the exposure is pretty close to being correct for the bird when it lands. The background doesnt matter at that point.

regards Unit.

By the way my name is Martin, but my nickname is Unit so call me what you will i respond to either. Actually Martin sometimes fails to register.