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.
You could have claimed that was something massively rare and none of us would have known any different!!
Did I say Kestrel.?? Sorry, I meant to say Wire-crested Thorntail.!!
Oh, that old thing .... had one on my Pyracantha only yesterday!!
So, there we were, sitting in one of the hides in Donana Spain. Things had gone fairly quiet so we were having a snack. Happened to glance outside and spotted this. Snatching up of cameras, only for my lens hood to bang on the opening. Not very loud, but enough for her to take off. Thank heavens we were the only people there.
I really tried hard to capture this nippy little gull:
Active black-headed gulls in fading light are hard work.
I was nowhere near quick enough to catch this beautiful magpie in flight:
Buzzard.
Very nice!
Oops .... Did someone say Duck ?