Category: #birds

Garden birds feeding: Taken with a vintage 21mm lens from below

Continuing with my small project of unusual viewpoints, this time I wanted to try a vintage 21mm lens (31mm equivalent) to photograph garden birds from below. I show, below, some of the results taken in early May. As before, some I find are quite amusing:

3 juvenile starlings by the feeder
A juvenile starling begging for food from an adult.
A Corvid, probably a crow, manipulating the coconut feeder so it can get at the contents

We don’t get many sparrows in the garden so this was a welcome sight:

2 juvenile starlings at the feeder with a sparrow waiting

Another, increasingly rare for us, garden bird is the blue tit. A few years ago there were many of them so, it is good to see this one:

A single starling at the feeder with a blue tit waiting its turn
2 juvenile starlings squabbling by the feeder
An adult starling feeing its fledgling
I cannot determine if this starling fledgling is begging from, or squabbling with, an adult
An adult starling feeding with 3 others queuing

An interesting viewpoint that shows the behaviour of some wild birds. More experimenting is required though.