Topic: Wildlife photography

[Debs]

Palustris,

Sorry, deleted it in frustration, and think it may have been due to lack of camera info on my behalf, as I have tinkered with camera settings and have managed to take some half decent shots.
Shall post later...

Debs

[honeybee]

It is frustrating when you see beautiful wildlife sharing your garden with you and knowing the camera is tucked away in another room...drat.

Today i was probably a foot away from a collared dove who sat so patiently on the fence as i stepped closer and closer to him.

I have a pic of my Heron too, not taken as close up as Carols and no crawling on the floor was involved in this shoot  ;)   ;D

[tim]

We don't have one of those - does this count??

[Palustris]

It would probably be regarded as some sort of cheating, but Honeybee, if that heron photo (lucky thing!) was taken on a digicamera, it could be worked on to produce a shot of the bird against a nice sky background. I would try but downloading from here, the picture is too small and most of the detail has gone.

[honeybee]

Your welcome to the original if you want to play around with it Eric.

Tim, now thats something ive never spotted in my garden  :D

[sarah]

I have just been catching up with this thread and am v. impressed with the heron shots.  I love herons and very occasionally we see one around here, I watched one being mobbed by seagulls once,which was quite a sight.  Its great we are all trying to get wildlife shots, I tried to get some the other dayof our elusive woodpecker but could not get close enough for a good shot. Got soem rather poor shots of a jay which I may try and post later.  I have Heldi's picture of a fox as my screensaver cos its such a good picture.

[Paulines7]

Carol, I have just returned from a few days in Devon so have just seen your heron picture.  Well done for getting so close to it.   ;D

I believe we had a heron in our garden sometime last year as all the goldfish disappeared.  I didn't catch sight of it though.  How lucky you are to see one prancing about on your lawn.  I hope it wasn't after your fish though if you have a pond.  :-\