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.
My blog: http://mazzaswildside.blogspot.co.uk/
My Flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/124028194@N04/
Well done Mike ...
Good game, good game ... in best Bruce Forsyth voice ...
I see the back-side of a tiny brown bird, about 40mm from the top of the photo, 20mm from its right side. Can hardly believe it's a pied wagtail. Could be anything small and brown from wren, chats ( most likely females), pipits ( who are close to wagtails, family wise
. . . but as you've seen it live, flying around and all, I just have to trust you . . .or did I, by any chance, miss a bird ??
This bird was far too fast for my photo abilities....
Wrong photo, I think the photo your looking at is a Dartford warbler? or something along those lines. My photo is the one previous to that
Regards
Benji
What is a pied wagtail? The photo you posted was of a bird flying over water that looks like a swallow.
Yes, that bird is the pied wagtail, I think Mart was looking at the picture after mine, which I believe is a Dartford warbler or something similar that
Thanks. I'd never have got pied wagtail.
Tissington wildlife outtakes 2024....
I have to give credit to the R5 eye tracking. The light was good and the tracking managed to follow the swallows and not lock onto the cables or other nearby objects.
Shocked and stunned!
Well, at least the swallow still has two tail feathers.....
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
Love the last one ...
Super shots!!!
Those swallows