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My wife doesn't really understand me. Its ok, its not some Loose Women- type confessional, she doesn't get why I'll happily go out for 6 hours in the pouring rain, miles from anywhere. What do I get from going birding, rather than say, going for a pub lunch with my spouse.

While I know the answer, or at least, am satisfied with the vague, amorphous answer that I usually produce, my wife never really understands, as much sa she will try.

Recently, though, I've started...

Green Sandpiper

I have set myself a new challenge now that I am getting good results with my static portraits of garden birds.
I now would like to get better photographs of birds in flight. There are two methods I intend to try. The first is tracking birds in flight with my 70-300mm zoom lens and the other is to use flash to capture small birds in my garden set up.
I have one or two decent images using the "tracking" method, but they are limited to larger birds like the red kite and woodpigeon....

Denny Woodthorpe

Hello again.

This time I will show a selection of photos taken all in the Community of Madrid during the months of April and May. Many of them are newly arrived birds from the African continent for the summer and breed in our land. Some of them may pass were to continue their migration to the north.

In other cases they are birds that remain stable throughout the year in the Community.

I have been very difficult to make the choice because I like going...

dirding trekking

Like clock work, they have fledged again. Check out some good photos of the fledglings.

http://birdmecca.posterous.com/annua...-black-bellies

Urban Birder McAllen

Hello again again with a post about some of the wetlands of Castilla la Mancha, which I love.

We visited the Longar in Lillo, Laguna Larga Villacañas, the lagoon complex of Alcazar de San Juan, Laguna de la Vega of the People in Pedro Muñoz and finally Manjavacas Lagoon.

Most notable has been the two breeding colonies, a laughing gull and the other Pagaza Tern. In Manjavacas this year due to little rainfall and low lake level there is only one attempted colony of flamingo...

dirding trekking