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I heard there were snowy owls spending the Winter in a wheat field about 70 miles from where I live so decided to take a look. I debated, scope or camera or both. Well, the first time I just took the camera and regretted not bringing the scope. There were five immature snowy owls lined up in a row like ducks..... but separated by a 100 meters or so.

Next day...yepper...you guessed it. I took my scope and did some digiscoping. This time around the owls were not in the spot they were...

lmans66

I've come up with a new way of producing backgrounds for my bird portraiture in the garden. I became fed up with daubing paint or pastels on to boards and it not looking quite right. I then had the idea of actually photographing appropriate backgrounds (out of focus) and having them printed out as A2 posters. I sent eight of them away to be printed. Well, they have come back and I tried a couple out today and they worked great! I have found a way of mounting them on a board so that I can change...

Denny Woodthorpe

It is really annoying when you have the opportunity to get a shot you would really like, but fate gets in the way. Driving in to town this morning (shopping!) I noticed a bird in a hedge by the side of the road. A beautiful male bullfinch sitting in full view on a nice branch. I couldn't stop, even to point it out to the wife, as there was a car right behind - and I didn't have my camera with me anyway. For a while afterwards, I had the image imprinted on my mind.
At the moment my photography...

Denny Woodthorpe

Lianwei, Haifeng, Guangdong, China.
I found a very unusual Shrike at the weekend which differed in many chacteristics from the norm for Lanius Schach sp.fuscatus.
Firstly the bird was overall black and not showing sharp contrast between the head, wing and body. Secondly the bird had a pale greenish beak rather than dark grey/black. Thirdly the bird had a strong wing bar showing white tips and edges to primaries at rest and finally a white underside to the upper tail and vent area....

BIJ

Tokina 70 - 210 arrived today. Seller said it has fungus, seems to be dirt on outside rear element. First test with dog shows very good quality

kennethwfd