I was parked at the end of Salt Marsh Lane the other day and as I was returning to my car from the reserve I heard a continual high pitched cheeping noise coming from inside a Hawthorn tree on Farmfield Lane. Peering through a small gap in the leaves I saw a branch full of baby Long-Tailed Tits. I was difficult to get the camera to focus first of all because in auto mode it wanted to focus on things in the foreground but fortunately the day before I had consulted the online manual and discovered how to focus manually - this made all the difference with a fairly static subject because it meant that I could set the camera up on the tripod and leave it running - keeping out of sight so as not to spook the birds. as I saw other possibilities for placing the camera so there are a couple of different angles in the video.
Thank you so much Birdie - I really appreciate your kind comment, so encouraging! :)
John, that was pretty special. Great footage.
Superb! I love the spot of queue jumping near the beginning. Thanks for sharing the footage.
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Fantastic, John--thanks for posting. Did I count at least 6 youngsters there?
Kind regards, Ann
Great video. Well spotted. Hearing them is one thing, then managing to find a view of them is often very difficult.
Thanks for all the kind comments folks - really appreciated.
Ann - yes there were six altogether - I didn't record what happened at the end but I suspect one off the parents must have got spooked because very quickly they reduced to three and then they all disappeared!
HaHa, they weren't long tailed tits they were the 10 little indians. :)