meadow pipit

Playing with Topaz Denoise as suggested by Keith Reeder in the Nikon thread of this fine forum, critique welcome

Its a meadow pipit.........

Ahh this Mipit and the next image made me chuckle as I had to get my wife to lay in an damp, insect strewn, thistle covered crater on the grassland, the things she'll do for me on my birthday, oh and yes she had to be still and quiet...... Its her way of sharing my birthday.........

Played host to my good friend Ken this morning and had a great time as always.The birds performed well and was chuffed to get this shot as its one of my best Mipits to date.

well for two weeks,going on hols see you all soon,no shots though family holiday with my 50mm lens,

who likes the rain. Visited Mike from ebbw vale yesterday,he had nicely invited me down so setting out in the dark at 4am met up at 6am.the weather turned out fowl and as usual the weather forecast stretched the truth again and the 11 am bright spell forgot to show lol,any ways had a great...

Meadow Pipit

Took this quite late in the evening,in a beautiful sunset.

Lots of meadow pipits on the hills above Penrhyncoch. Most of them too far away, too high up, hidden by hedgerows ... But two of them perched on fenceposts aaaalmost within camera range. I think this is the sharpest I got, but I'll take a closer look later.

A passing hiker pointed out this bird to me just as it left one perch. I re-spotted it atop the bracken, still fairly close. Though it had its back to us it did turn its head from side to side and I managed to time a couple of shots to catch a bit of profile. This one was quite sharp in full...

went up to north norfolk and found quite a few pipits.

meadow pipit about to feed its youngsters some tasty morsels

Meadow pipit isle of Skye

A Meadow Pipit among the Buttercups.