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/
Another sunny visit to Brandon, and a non-compliant little grebe.....
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
Oh dear, look what I stuffed up on !! Well three quarters of a Cettis Warbler is better than none LOL. You may see a full one if I sort out a few photos later.
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Regards, Hazel
Hi Hazy! Any warbler is better than no warbler- a Cetti's even being a lifer to me. ( They don't even hang around in Germany) Here is 50% of a Nightingale. For about 3 seconds I saw 100% of her, from about 6ft distance- perfect. But I was like in shock - I couldn't move.
Adorable shot! I like Little Grebes a lot
I've never seen a Nightingale so very nice to see your photo which I'd be pleased to have taken !
Thank you very much, Hazy, I'm very happy that you like it. Since three, four years I can hear many of them in parks, and even along roads with greens at the sides, sometimes one every 100m, with overlapping territorys. It's not easy to spot them, even if my ears tell me, they have to be "just there", but I manage now and then. Last year I even made a video of one singing, he didn't mind I had spotted him already. I read that Nightingales which sing the nights over are actually the inexperienced young males, who didn't find a female in time. They'll keep on singing now untill they eventually give it up in June.
The one that got away.....
Bottoms up view of a Coot. !!
2 fantastic shots Hazel, and what great Athletes they are! Jumping out and back into the water like Dolphins. Wonderful reflections, too.
Can you tell what it is?
Regards
Benji