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Spotted flycatcher
a.dancy

Spotted flycatcher

Continuing a theme... spotted flycatchers. I found my self a chair in the college gardens at Maynooth in Ireland and plonked my self at the end of a bicycle rail /bar and just hoped the spotted flycatcher would land on it to hawk insects from. For an hour or so, it used every perch I could see and then finally ' bingo' the bird laned where I wanted it. The shot I was looking for was not quite this, I wanted to be perfectly end on to the rail to get the required blurr effect. I had been testing exposures with the light changing. See next upload.

Hand held 1/400sec
Habitat
College gardens
Location
Maynooth College Ireland
Date taken
06
Equipment used
Canon 20D Sigma 500
Patients is the key with these birds Adrian, looks like it paid off.
Stunning capture, well done!!!!:t::t::t::t::t:
 

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