Hide

I decided to try a new approach to bird photography – I built a hide. It’s still very close to home, but just a little bit in the forest so the birds don’t have to come out in the open to feed. I set up a lot of food and a few perches (work in progress) and then a small tent with a camo net thrown over and I was thrilled to bits to find out that it works! I even had jays and magpies coming for a visit, normally they’re the shiest birds around. Only problem is that I’m so close that I can’t get these big birds in the frame without cutting off feet and tail feathers… while at the same time, I’m still too far to get a good full frame picture of the small birds. So I’m cropping, but I’m learning to live with it. I don’t want to move the tent any closer or the birds will start perching on the lens!

Great tit
Great tit

I know that we have a lot of birds around at the moment, but I didn’t see that many today. Maybe they were suspicious about my hide (and all the hassle I made when setting it up), so I hope that I will have more luck with the feathered friends in the coming weeks. Or the whole winter, for that matter – unless they disappear again like they did last year. Landscape photography is not really a vital option at the moment and I don’t have any landscape ideas anyway. Will need some snow before the landscape becomes interesting again!

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