Blue Wren Family behind Observatory.

[hotspur]

Well,the little blue wrens built a nest in shrubs behind observatory.Three young were hatched.I have been taking photos all along.Unfortunately-one young disappeared early,not sure what happened,two good strong chicks remained until Sacred Kingfishers moved in.Only one left now!

Here is the young with mum (mum on the right),also a pic of dad.

Might get the one male blue wren image printed,hard to get image without distractions of sticks and leaves.

Hope these are of interest,any thoughts on a re PP on male,most welcome,as this was only a 5 minute job.

[rainwatcher]

Great shot of the male, what was the lens and FL - its so sharp. I have many pairs of Norfolk Island Honyeaters in my trees but they never sit still long enough for me to focus and get a shot.
I have a family of bogons nesting behind my observatory, complete with noisy hotted up Commodores, old cars on stumps, old furniture in the yard, barking dog and foul mouthed kids. All of em on the dole. I have grown trees to block em out and really just wait for the inevitable jail terms and road trauma to rid me of them temporarally.

[hotspur]

hello Peter.

Sorry,had a big laugh at your post about the vermin,behind your observatory.Such a shame society breeds bogons.

The images were taken using a Canon 50D and Canon 400 mm L F.6 prime lens,settings at F 8 iso 400 AV mode,this mode seems to be highly favoured by birders.However-when bird against very bright sky,you will have to go to manual and adjust settings on site.

These images taken late in the day,so as to get softer sun light on angle,I must say that I was sitting waiting for them to pop out,I was very close approx 5 metres.So conditions were fairly ideal,If I'd been out bush walking might be harder to achieve.

BTW the speed camera selected was 1/250th,which is fairly slow,for longer lens.If you get into birding Peter,400 mm,in my opinion is minimum length,if you can afford the 500L that would be better,but might be a bit harder to carry around to the rough locations I walk to.

Good luck with the birding,and vermin elimination.

[renormalised]

Bogons......nothing a court order and a D10 can't fix:):P:P

[bloodhound31]

Gorgeous Chris! Yes, the male is definitely a printer!

Baz.

[rainwatcher]

Hey Karl, what's a D10 is it like a 303.

[ChrisM]

Great pics Chris.

Chris

[keni]

Hi Peter,
I think it's a bit bigger than a 303......

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Much more fun to use too.
So "up close and personal"

Ken

[keni]

Hi Chris,
Great pics too.
I love the colour of the male just gorgeous.

Cheers,
Ken.

[renormalised]

Nice piccies, Chris. Especially the male:)

[Nico13]

LOL:rofl::lol::rofl: Bogans 303's and D10's, what a great mix.

Great shots of the wrens by the way Chris, I have a 300mm prime, not really long enough but sometimes they let me get close enough for a shot like that.

Nico.