Budgies ...

[Hamish Gill]

... ok they aren't budgies, but i dont know what they are ... perhaps someone can id them?

not really done much of this bird photog stuff but they actually seemed a lot more tame in wales ... but then i didnt see a single cat whilst i was there!

 

[Katherine Lihou]

You have *got* to get out of the city more often!

Thats a male chaffinch and a pair of house sparrows, and wonderful photos of all of them if I might say.

Can't account for the lack of cats in Wales though...

Cheers,

Kate

 

[Pete Askew]

I hope you didn't spend 4 days trying to teach them to talk!!

Nice shots especially the last brown Budgie!

 

[Hamish Gill]

cheers Pete ... was just nice to find a use for the 70-200 lens really
no talking, we did feed em some biscuits though!

 

[Pete Askew]

And they didn't even say thanks. That's Welsh Budgies for you!!

 

[Paul Lange]

Nice sharp shots. My favourite birds are the featherless ones you buy in the supermarket that don't have heads or feet though

 

[Glen Roberts]

My favourite birds are the featherless ones you buy in the supermarket that don't have heads or feet though

Strange... My favourite ones are the featherless ones with a head, two arm, two legs, and two other front appendages.

But I still love the feathered ones too.

 

[Paul Lange]

Good point Glen and you can train those ones not to **** on the bonnet of your car too.

 

[Glen Roberts]

I never thought I'd see the day!!! .

not really done much of this bird photog stuff ...

You should be careful Hamish, you could end up with a bigger lens and get addicted.

 

[Hamish Gill]

i did come away thinking id quite like a 150-500 siggy lens ... 200 is pretty week for this sort of thing eh?!

 

[Glen Roberts]

I've heard the 50-500mm "Bigma" is the better of the ???-500mm sigma zooms if you were really thinking of one, a bit more expensive though but still cheaper than a big Nikon lens.

 

[Darren Turner]

nice set Hamish......... I hated my 150-500mm unless i had a bad copy, was VERY soft and colours it produced always looked washed out........ i wanted a canon version but couldn't afford one at the time so bought sigma instead.

Now i got the next best thing a Canon 100-400mm IS L .............1000 times better lens IMO. I dont use it as much as i should due to having the 70-200mm F2.8 IS L which i simply love.............lol