Siskins

Hi Kathy & Dave    I have a button on my camera called "best shot". One of the settings under it's menu allows for rapid fire shooting for want of a better phrase. I always use this when taking photos of birds because it allows you to get two three really good pictures out of the twenty or so shot. I was very lucky with the photos shown here as I just pointed the camera at all the birds on the feeders and this what I got. I'd love to have the time to understand. the technicalities of photography. However  I tend to get bogged down with the details when i try to study the subject and most of it goes over my head. My philosophy is point and snap.

Regards Scruff

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

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