Bad pics of fab wildlife - part 2!

Linda257 said:

And this one just being cheeky

Oh, I thought it was a positively rude gesture ... possibly not a fan of the paparazzi!!

I'm with Nige, with a plus, that's one for the neighbours. 

Lovely captures of House Sparrow action, Hazel.  Here in Berlin it's wonderful to observe them observing us, sitting in street cafés. As well that's a great spot for seeing them feeding their young, and as well still in mating /bonding business. . .

Like with the feral pigeons,  thanks to good feed supply, I wouldn't be surprised if they had a prolonged breeding period,  at least where living close to people and their left-overs (?)

 Is is definitely the worst shot I ever posted in this thread for not -so-good  shots - but the tiny,  yellowish spot in the center has a story to it, I couldn't resist telling and posting this as an ( flimsy) evidence .

After several sound recordings and split -second views, over the years,  but not a single record shot,  I finally  managed to capture this - well,  you're free to choose. if you believe me , it's a golden oriole.  I was scrutinising the one or two trees,  where definitely the oriole calls came from for more than an hour. Without being able to spot the bird , probably in the thick foilage in the tree-top and me about 50m -100m away , not to disturb him /them. It happened  that a Hooded Crow  and a Raptor (can't say what Raptor , saw a Goshawk,a Eurasian Buzzard and a Black Kite in the area ) ...Well these two birds made a prolonged airfight,  reminding me of movies of WW1 airfights ... As well over and in the group of trees ,where the Oriole was perched (probably with his mate and a nest aswell).

Suddenly a rather big , yellow bird  ( definitely bigger than Great Tit), the male Oriole,  shot straight up to make a show attack , orchestrated by alarming calls ) to the two airfighters - just to retreat quickly straight back to his breeding -tree.  From this retreat is the probably  worst  shot on this thread sofar

Bye for now,  and my very best wishes to all at rspb community 

Yours, Mart

Marvellous shot Mike ! And so often the Magpies are just gone as soon as they see the camera pointed at them .
( How shall they tell a cam from a gun , an arrow, etc, pp. after knowing people since a million years up to this day as their deadly enemies...even in countries like Italy or Greece I won´t bet there´s more birders than bird hunters- very sad , but I won´t have to convince anyone- here at the rspb- community ;-)
)

Excellent, this Goldfinch Cannonball, Mike - great shot of  fab wildlife I´d say ;-))

That´s a greedy ,or very choosy Great Tit, Linda 257. Lovely , and very funny shot :-))

Mart 1 said:

Excellent, this Goldfinch Cannonball, Mike - great shot of  fab wildlife I´d say ;-))

Thanks Mart.

Watching goldfinches in flight, it's easier to get a cannonball pic than wings spread, for they have very few wing flap, then prolonged glide through the air.

Spot, point, focus & shoot, oh and its flown and I had a very slow shutter speed. It was a Ringlet.

Just missed a well known chap on this forum