a winters tale

set off this morning early to go christmas shopping..........6'' of snow

walked into town.................loads of birds about

dipper 3

grey wagtail 6

pied wagtail 9 including 1 sheltering in a shop front

bullfinch 4

lapwing 18

common gull 5

fieldfare 78

redwing 63

jay 8

song thrush 2

mistle thrush

sainsburys

yesterday

tree sparrows and a cheeky rat

yes Bubwith again but then you gotta love tree sparrows! and cheeky rats.

the light was not the best but managed some decent photos? still getting used to the 400mm but the 50D handles noise quite well,these were taken at iso 800 apart from some editing in CS4 and have not been through neat image.

testing the new 400 f5.6 L

spent a few hours this morning at Bubwith trying out the new 400mm f5.6,and im quite impressed. the lack of 'is' is a pain but the sharpness of it is a plus.

mute swan

sparrowhawk

tree sparrow
iso 1600 on a 50d

changes and new gear :)

firstly due to the amount of spam posted in the comments recentley i have made the blog availble for only other bloggers to comment,which is a dissapointment as even the anon comments are good,but its my own fault!

anyway just got a new lens the canon ef 400mm f5.6 as an upgrade to the 100-400mm

also just got an old canon T90 manual film camera aka 'the tank' which im going to use for my halifax photos.........when the film arrives

sunday rain and a bit of urban birding

a very wet and windy sunday in the grimest town.spent about 4 hours wandering round the town........
not alot about but was quite pleased with

grey heron 3
kingfisher 2
grey wagtail 2
jay 1
coal tit 1
long tailed tit 50+
redwing 4

god im bored

a pure sheer lack of motivation this last month! why i dont know? but i need to back into the field.
im so bored at the moment i could not even be arsed getting off the sofa to go for the eastern crowned warbler!!!! which was the one bird i only ever wanted to see!

this is yorkshire
we do what we want