Guys is this assessment wrong.............
a couple of togs have put themselves down wind of a flock of waders and waited
At the onset of video their prescence has now spit the flock basically a proportion of the brids went in slightly deeper water around them(togs) and carried on feeding
without flight or fright
Flock 'o' birds always feed into the wind......... if they don't their feathers blow inside out
well they do it's LAW
Plus in an emergency the wind gives lift at take off immediate lift and the wind takes them away from danger at greater speed
The movement of the guy ( image maker) standing up has now rendered him a slight threat to the birds. It's a bit awkward, sure, but any of us can own that....... birder tog walker we all spook stuff when we stand it's somewhat inevitable. That bit is what he did wrong
The birds take flight use the wind to lift them away.
but too my reckoning, are so little bothered they then do what??
Turn back towards the togs and use the natural flock instinct ,ie safety in numbers to rejoin the main flock in a fly past. If they were really bothered they would have kept going not turned back
to presumably keep feeding not shown in vid
I don't do twiter I've read the thread, it's geniunely shocking to me........... bewildering shocking
If anyone can give me a reasoned debate against the above then I'm up for that . To me the photographers did little wrong bar standing up ...............instead of trying to be lower smaller less of a threat to the advancing flock.
If the last post, or thereabouts, in that lunacy is correct, the tog raises funds for RSPB and obviously loves wildife,!!
For me :
there may be a slight error of judgment here in the lad standing up. But c'mon, learning those skills is no easy thing we all make mistakes !! But for folks to be like this... so horrible( I'm trying to be deft I'm a builder) when they all supposedly care about wildlife is feakin NUTZ . and if the guy with the vid had of shown me more I'd lay a bet the birds landed with the rest and carried of feeding ,so no harm done any which way. The whole thing is BONKERS
Andrew togs flock behaviour is tricky huh.......................... when it hits one's own little patch. UGG it's a circus . What does one do walk away from something I've tried to make a half decent frame of for years That I found the old way or become part of it. I have adopted a sort of squirrel meself away and try and ignore it rather than be honorable and admit I'm no match for it . Something is lost though, wildlife should be individuals and a beastie not hoards and beastie If I was half the tog most are here I'd probably have my fix/sorry image
by now, and be considering other subjects .
That said ,I might well have had one of my best days today possibly?????? my best images of said subject I should be a bit ecstatic . i'm not saying an amazing frame just probably as good as I've made. But that's cool enough right ........... 4/5 or so years at it. and these are up there that's enough to celebrate. Yet all I can see is the circus the images barely registered yet I've waited so long to not screw those chances completely. Ha ha it's really weird Andrew !!
I guess it's the double edged sword of the web: we all look at that bit more, but somehow we see a lot less
So yeah please, PLEASE bring on the eagles, failing that I'll take boar lynx ( OMG especially lynx
) wolves anything really apart from polar bears,they just eat everything
We probably do need some degree of natural selection in wildlife photographers in the UK . Polar bears aren't really cricket I don't really think we quite have the skill set
It might help though
Pete sorry for the long ramble Andrew's post hit a nerve . But truly I'm genuinely stunned by the twitter thread WOW It might genuinely be the first thread I've ever read there .I know about it and just naturally avoid I've watched that vid a good few times I just can't see it!! What ever they are going on about is flying miles over me!!
sorry for wafflin
stu