Spring birds

[Bill19]

Some shots from over the past weeks, with my bridge camera, fuji s200exr, and processed with photoshop CS3, any C+C on shooting or/and processing very welcome

1. Blackbird young

2. starlings

3.

4. Blue tit going in to feed its chicks

5. goslings

6.

thanks

 

[arclight]

Nice shots there, Bill.

What has been scratching at the Blue Tit's nest box?

 

[Trev4]

Dont you just love spring A nice set there, favourite is number 2 even though its a starling still a colourful bird. The BT colour doesnt look right tbh, maybe undersaturated. Thanks for sharing

 

[Bill19]

thanks guys
arclight, I'm not sure If i am honest, it was done since the blue tits started visiting the box, I have seen no predator type things going at it , but it does make me wonder, perhaps the blue tits go at it for some nesting material, but I am not sure if they would be strong enough... we don't tend to get woodpeckers in our garden, and its being gettting worse over a period of time, so must be something regular... can any one shed any light?
Thanks Trev, i think you could be right, i think a little more saturation could solve it

 

[Bill19]

just want to put in another cheeky one
7. I'm not sure why but I just thought B+W suited this

 

[DaiTheDragon]

Love the Starlings but all good.

Dai

 

[arclight]

thanks guys
arclight, I'm not sure If i am honest, it was done since the blue tits started visiting the box, I have seen no predator type things going at it , but it does make me wonder, perhaps the blue tits go at it for some nesting material, but I am not sure if they would be strong enough... we don't tend to get woodpeckers in our garden, and its being gettting worse over a period of time, so must be something regular... can any one shed any light?
Thanks Trev, i think you could be right, i think a little more saturation could solve it

Sqirrels can do that in an attempt to widen the hole to get the chicks.
Some boxes have a metal plate to stop them.

 

[lost]

A very nice set of images

Regards

Richard

 

[Bill19]

thanks all
Hi arclight, we don't get squirrels where we are, well there are some about 200-300m away down another lane across a busy road, we don't have enough trees for them where we are, so don't think it would be a squirrel.