Siskins

Hi Scruff

Thank you for your information in your post.

I will look more closely at my own camera for such buttons like you have mentioned here.

What camera do you own?

I know what you mean about details - a 300 plus page user guide for our Canon is a long story to read and remembering all the facts attached to get the best from the camera is another thing all together.

Regards

Kathy and Dave

Hi again Kathy & Dave        It's a Casio Exilim EX-FH25 ( Or so it says on the camera) and has a 20X zoom lens.It also has macro which allows really good close ups of small things like bees and flies etc. I posted some pictures a while ago of  couple of bees and a hover fly. I bought from QVC.      

Regards again Scruff     

Hi Scruff

Not yet seen a siskin in the flesh nice pics

Cheer

Rik

I had a couple of siskins that came regularly during last winter, but I haven't seen any this winter. It's a shame because they are such pretty little birds, and they loved my Niger seed.

I hope that if any fly over here they might see my feeders and come down for a closer look. :-)

Thank you Scruff for you answer

I have never heard of the camera you have mentioned but it is another snippet of knowledge to have acquired on here to do with optics

I will look out for your other photos on here too {big smile}

Regards

Kathy and Dave

Scruff said:

Hi again Kathy & Dave        It's a Casio Exilim EX-FH25 ( Or so it says on the camera) and has a 20X zoom lens.It also has macro which allows really good close ups of small things like bees and flies etc. I posted some pictures a while ago of  couple of bees and a hover fly. I bought from QVC.      

Regards again Scruff     

Hi, great pics of Siskins, we have quite a few visiting the feeders at this time of year, (we are in Argyll). Had to laugh at a very fiesty male ferociously defending one of the peanut feeders from the chaffinches, much to their confusion!!  Also get visited by a small band of Long Tailed Tits who swoop in, lovely little birds, I love the way I can tell when their on their way from the surrounding conifer plantation when I hear the "chatter"

Great photos Scruff, well done they are fast little devils.

I am lucky enough to get a lot of siskins visiting. They fed regularly all last spring and summer and brought their young. Then they disappeared for a month or two but have just started returning. I counted eight on my kitchen feeder today.  They are lovely birds and I was a bit worried when they went,  very pleased to see them again.

Jane

Scruff back again      I thought I'd show the original photos from which I edited the previous 4. Hope you like them

m.

I adore them - the one on the feeder really shows how acrobatic those finches are compared to let's say, chaffinch.