Spanish photos (birds seen in Britain).

[John]

I thought I would post some of the photos from Spain into the gallery then link them to this thread. Only those that are on the British list will be used. The first ten are here. I will upload some more later.

The first three images are of Night Herons in Flight.




The next one is of Spoonbills in flight.


Next is a couple of Hoopoe photos.



Great White Egret next.


Cattle Egret next.


Black Redstart next


Last image is of a Little Owl.


John

[John]

A few more photos from spain. The first three are new to the gallery.

The first one is of a Southern Grey Shrike.


Next is a Rock Bunting.


White Wagtail (as opposed to a Pied - same species).


Two photos of White Storks



Two photos of Squacco Herons



Red-legged partridge


House Sparrow.


That's it as all the other photos are of birds that haven't come to Britain or have but haven't been accepted onto the lists yet.

John

[greg.siddons]

Incredible pictures John! Spoonbills in flight a favourite of my wife. However, I LOVE the Little Owl photo so much, it's the way it's looking straight at the camera with those beautiful eyes.

You should be rightfully proud of all of those pictures John. Lovely.

Greg

[nightshade]

Very good John thank you

[glsammy]

Some superb shots here John. Well done! I imagine most were with the DSLR?

[Garden Carpet]

Beautiful photos John. You should be rightly pleased with them
jaki

[John]

Originally Posted by glsammy

Some superb shots here John. Well done! I imagine most were with the DSLR?

Hi Graham

All of the above were with the DSLR. I had also bought the Canon 1.4 teleconverter before I went to Spain and it has been attached ever since so all photos you can see will be with the telenconvertor and the 100-400 lens.

The only ones I digiscoped are not shown above. They were the Blue Rock thrush (possibly over 300 yards away), the Short-eared Owl (possibly 200 yards away on a very warm day) and the Black-shouldered Kite which again was about 200 yards away.

John

[glsammy]

Originally Posted by John

Hi Graham

All of the above were with the DSLR. I had also bought the Canon 1.4 teleconverter before I went to Spain and it has been attached ever since so all photos you can see will be with the telenconvertor and the 100-400 lens.

The only ones I digiscoped are not shown above. They were the Blue Rock thrush (possibly over 300 yards away), the Short-eared Owl (possibly 200 yards away on a very warm day) and the Black-shouldered Kite which again was about 200 yards away.

John

I'm impressed with the performance of the 1.4, with my lens I couldn't get on with it. I suppose I should consider that you probably had excellent light, something that's pretty rare round here!
You also did very well to get the in flight shots using the 1.4, did you use manual focus?

[John]

Originally Posted by glsammy

I'm impressed with the performance of the 1.4, with my lens I couldn't get on with it. I suppose I should consider that you probably had excellent light, something that's pretty rare round here!
You also did very well to get the in flight shots using the 1.4, did you use manual focus?

Hi graham

I only used auto focus and also I didn't always have good light. In fact if you look at the Norfolk Trip report thread and look at those photos they were nearly all in atrocious weather conditions.

Today I was shooting in torrential rain at times and still got some half decent shots of Water Rail, Reed Bunting, Treecreeper and Great Spotted Woodpecker, and there wasn't a chink of sunlight anywhere just horrible grey clouds. All those photos were taken with the 1.4 attached to the lens.

John