Hi, I am new to bird spotting and up till now my main interest has been taking photographs of them. I have managed a Kingfisher, a Red Kite, Greater Spotted Woodpecker and a Nuthatch during the past week, then along came these two which I haven't been able to identify - I suspect they are female versions of more colourful males, but I can't decide what they are even though I have searched the RSPB website and I have three books on bird ID.
I would appreciate your help please
Oh dear I tried to upload one of the pictures but got an error message stating 'maximum time exceeded' I will try again
thanks
Ruthie
Hi Ruthie,
Welcome to the forums.
It's possible that your photos are too large or in the wrong format.
They need to be Jpeg images and should be reduced in size to 72dpi and something less than about 1gb
(p.s. when I first started on here Blackbird corrected me that it is a Great Spotted Woodpecker)
Best wishes Chris
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Hi Ruthie
Welcome to the forum.
All those amazing birds in one week!! You are lucky.
To post photos on here they need to be under 4MB( I think??) so use your pc software to crop the photos down.
If this doesn't work there will be someone on here who can help you (and identify the mystery birds). I look forward to seeing them.
Cheers
Pipit
Woodpecker said: It's possible that your photos are too large or in the wrong format.
Hey Woodpecker
I reckon we managed it between us, don't you think? Sorry to overpost you!
Let's hope ruthie's photos pop up soon
Pip x
Hi Pipit
I can never remember the maximum size because I always reduce mine to a few hundred kb so that the threads refresh more quickly. :-)
Hi Chris
I'm not at all tekky but I've realised that my camera tends to take photos of about 5 MB and if I crop them, even just a little, they tend to reduce to between 1 and 2 MB which them load ok.
I think every camera seems to upolad photos of a different size.
Mine are huge (more than 38") so I always resize them by cropping
Hi
I crop mine on Photoshop elements and reduce them to 56kb- normally works
S
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hi ruthie and welcome, im new to it all too. you will find everyone friendly helpful and knowledgable, look forward to seeing your pics. paul.
Hi ruthie and welcome ot the RSPB Froum and enjoy your time with us here
I always have newly downloaded large pictures that appear as 4426x3312. and they are big!
I use the resize facility and change to 800x600 and that seen to suit the size of the post on an RSPB thread.
There are a few software packages that will do the resizing for you. I use 'Windows Photo Gallery' myself although everyone has their own favourite software packages to use.
Let us know how you get along downloading your pictures.
I would love to see your photos a lot.
Regards
Kathy and Dave