Your #1 best picture (1 Viewer)

[Will K]

What is the absolute #1 best / favourite picture you have taken in your birding / twitching experience?

The media section on BF is full of great pics, but there’s so many; let’s have a thread for the cream of the crop.

Give us your best shot…!

 

[Val35]

My favorite so far might be this Broad Billed Sandpiper (Georgia, Sept. 2022), not only was it a lifer for me but it was also so close ! I spotted them from long distance and noticed this group of 6 was feeding and moving towards me along the shore (along with other waders). I sat on the shore and slowly they came closer, until this one was at about 3 meters from me. I waited until they passed me by before leaving, to avoid any disturbance.


Honorable mentions :

-Red Rumped Swallow (Corsica, spring 2018 or 2019), it sat on the wire just in front of my window so I could get close eye level views.


-Common Reed Warbler (Spain, April 2019), this one sang undisturbed a couple meters from me in Aiguamolls.


All pics shot with Nikon p610 bridge camera.

 

[Farnboro John]

One's impossible!

Birding


Twitching

In flight


Perched up

Abroad








Cheers

John

 

[Julie50]

This is my favourite - taken very early in my birding life and still my best sighting of a bittern.

Edit: It was at Minsmere btw

 

[Original PaulE]

Difficult to pick one picture, but think it's got to be one of the Pallid Harrier, a very good day for me all round!!

 

[Andy Adcock]

Not that I ever contribute anything to the birding forums but here are a couple of my favourites from my time in Russia.

 

[lockbreeze926]

Like "what's your favourite album?" questions, the answer changes regularly and, for me, there is definitely a bias towards newer pictures, so a Puffin I saw in Fife recently is on my mind at the moment. In fact, it's my avatar.

For something less monochrome and stark, I also like a Malachite Sunbird from South Africa. That was especially satisfying because my only previous shot of the species had been eight years previously, and it was made on the exact same plant. I sat there, in Kirstenbosch gardens, recalling the previous (much poorer) shot and - for once - the dream scenario came to pass. Hoping for another Malachite, an individual magically dropped on to a pin-cushion protea exactly where I was sitting and let me blast off a number of shots (half a dozen useable) before gradually making its way down the slope via other proteas.

Same bench, same path, same location, same actual bush. Very satisfying, like the kind of positive plot twist that birding so seldom delivers.

 

[Bewick]

Relatively new to photography, these are my current favourites.

 

[JWN Andrewes]

I think this is probably my rarity photo that I'm most pleased with, at Donna Nook in 2016.

 

[Scozmos]

In March of this year I had a wonderful encounter with a female Crossbill up at Backwater Reservoir, she allowed me to within feet of here as she fed on the cones above my head, so close, I had to back off with the long lens. Needless to say, I took many, many shots that day.
She carried on munching and keeping an eye on me for several minutes, in the end, I walked away. An experience that will stay with me.

 

[Bewick]

My new favourite picture

 

[S_Man]

This recent one, not the best nor the prettiest, ugly background and very bad back light, but it was "emotional"...



I was in my plastic hide, 35°C outside, 40°C inside, I was ready to leave, when this little guy came, in bad shape...

 

[lockbreeze926]

Wow, never seen an owl with a butterfly on it.