{"id":4718,"date":"2015-11-02T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2015-11-02T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T17:01:01","slug":"stunned-blue-tit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4718","title":{"rendered":"Stunned blue tit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I walked into my garden shed not knowing there was a blue tit in there which panicked and flew straight into the window which stunned it.\u00a0 I gently gathered it up and put it on the lawn so it could fly off when ready. As it was still there a few minutes later, I went and got my compact camera and took a few photos of it before it flew off:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0710t1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4720 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0710t1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Blue tit -1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0710t1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0710t1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0710t1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0710t1.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Most photos of wild birds are taken with powerful telephoto lenses. With many compact cameras the close focusing is best with a wide-angle view. So, with these, you get a close photo of the bird with a wide field of view and quite a decent depth of field which adds context to the image. These were taken from a distance of about 4-6 inches.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0711t1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4721 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0711t1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Blue tit -2\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0711t1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0711t1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0711t1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0711t1.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0712t1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4722 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0712t1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Blue tit -3\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0712t1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0712t1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0712t1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0712t1.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>After the above photo it flew up into the shed and rested on the bench:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0713t1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4719 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0713t1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"blue tit on bench\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0713t1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0713t1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0713t1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/s15_0713t1.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>This photo is a bit blurry as it was quite dull inside and I wanted a photo before it flew off &#8211; which it did immediately after I took the photo.<\/p>\n<p>These photos are now in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/gallery-garden\/wildlife\/blue-tit\/index.php\">Garden Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I walked into my garden shed not knowing there was a blue tit in there which panicked and flew straight into the window which stunned it.\u00a0 I gently gathered it up and put it on the lawn so it could fly off when ready. As it was still there a few minutes later, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4718\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stunned blue tit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,24,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-nature","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4726,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions\/4726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}