Just because there's way too much great photography on this site...!
You know the feeling. You only got one or a few photos of it and they're not very good, but you can't bear to throw the photos away because they're all you have of that particular species. So you keep them, just until you get better ones :) We've managed to 'upgrade' some of the species below since these bad pics were taken, but not all...
Please join in! I can't be the only one who hordes terrible wildlife photos :)
Collared Flycatcher
Otter
Peregrine
and best (worst) of all, Nightjar!
My blog: http://mazzaswildside.blogspot.co.uk/
My Flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/124028194@N04/
lol, well the feeder was in focus, not sure about birds!
A rare opportunity to get a few decent photos of a Smew and after taking half a dozen shots when he/she was in closest range I find the camera dial had moved from AV to manual whilst I was reaching for the binoculars .............. to say I could have screamed, doesn't cut it LOL !!!!! These photos were pitch black but I have tried to lighten them to show you what I could have had in a clearer shot ..........arrrrrrghhhhh !!
and two more but I don't know what birds they are, so if anyone can ID them please, despite the poor shots !!
not sure if this next one is a female chaffinch ?
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Regards, Hazel
I haven't seen a Wren in our garden Bob, so happy to see even a blurred photo LOL !
Too much EGGnog!
Unicum arbustum haud alit duos erithacos
(One bush does not shelter two Robins)
Zenodotus (3rd Century B.C.)
Lovely male bullfinch if I'm not mistaken?
My first Waxwings and this is what I achieved LOL oops, back to the drawing board with settings.
First one, it's head looks strange !!
You can tell what they are. At least you saw them. That's the important thing.
My gallery here
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Yes, that's true Galatas, just a pity there was no blue sky as I think it would have brought out the colour better. I was thrilled to see them for the first time, very special :)
Good on you H - that just leaves doggie & myself with no Waxwings then!!!
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
It took me 5 different expeditions to find them and even then someone had to explain where they were LOL !! Didn't really get to see them in all that colourful splendour, they just looked grey or black up in the tree even with the human eye but I was thrilled to join the Wax Club ! Just remember, everything does eventually come to he/she who waits !!