Saturday, October 24, 2009

Red-flanked Bluetail Bempton






amazingly since the 1993 Winspit bird I have managed to see 3 in Lincs, 2 in Yorkshire and one in Norfolk and everyone a dream bird that most of us old timers never thought we would catch up with when Ian Wallace was producing evocative sketches of a 1975 bird in the then BBRC report in what was one of the greatest autumns of all time on the east coast -- just as many mega rare birds now but no scarce migrants and no common birds
Most of these shots were taken in dire light under the canopy of a small sycamore copse -- 500f4 some with 1.4 and speeds of 20th to 50th second on most at 640 ISO

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great shots of this fantastic bird!
Wish Malta was having as many rarities as Britain, we haven't even had a yellow-browed warbler yet which usually is anuall...