Old thread here: http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/chat/f/2542/t/22684.aspx
Because the original thread has, fittingly enough, 'gone bad', it's time for a new 'Bad pics' thread. Here, we celebrate the very worst of our wildlife photography. The subject matter is always brilliant, but the photos are very much not. If it's out of focus, chopped in half, frighteningly under- or over-exposed or terrible in some other way, it belongs here :)
Here's my first (first of many, no doubt) contribution to the new thread, a Goldcrest taken at Barnes yesterday. You need only minor incompetence to take a blurry photo, and the same to take a really under-exposed photo, but to do both in one go requires a special level of cackhandedness.
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And heres another one I took earlier, our displaying dunnock took flight/fright?
Tony
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Here's a really bad pic. Most frustrating as this is a bird I've been trying to photograph for years.
If you can guess what it is you deserve a prize - not that you are going to get one. The sticking up tail is the clue - and no it's not a Wren.
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Arrgh! So near but so far. It is easily identifiable for those of us who've spent ages chasing the little gits around and taking very similar photos of them though :) (But I won't say what it is as there's no actual prize...)
lol Tony, What a teaser and now you've got us thinking what it could be as I'm no expert on bird ID so I may have to PM Aiki lol !!! First thought: was it singing beautifully in Berkeley Sq ? and Red Listed lol
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Regards, Hazel
No Nightingales, they although should appear soon. A further clue - this has an explosive song. LOL
Oh, then maybe it begins with "C" lol I love their song and heard them so often although like you unable to catch the little blighters on camera
the only pics I could get through the window when I spotted the Bullfinch pair courtship feeding
will try for better !!
I haven't seen a bullfinch in years, just dont get them where we are, lovely to see, thanks for posting, reminds me of my late father-in-laws back garden, he used to get them on his feeders hung in bushes.
Nice 1 Hazel, I had a pair of Bull Finches in the garden on Friday sadly no pictures but if they call again I will try and get some.
Jim
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thanks Tony and James, glad you had bullfinches in the garden too Jim. I just missed the courtship feeding tonight - arrghh they were on the feeder when the male passed the female some sunflower heart seeds but only Mike saw it !