Thursday 5 May 2011

Bath Time for a Song Thrush

Looking through the captures from yesterday's session looking at the garden pond waterfall most are of Blackbirds, House Sparrows and Starlings. There is the odd Wood Pigeon, Blue Tit, Goldfinch, Tree Sparrow and Greenfinch. Best of all was to see a Song Thrush as I rarely hear one and even more rarely see one so it was great to know at least one visits for a wash and brush up.

Song Thrush

Song Thrush

The camera set up is shown below. Canon 350D with EF 70-200mm f1.4 lens on a tripod on the left of the photo. PIR (passive infra-red) detector on a tripod on the right near the green water barrels. It looks down on the waterfall. The PIR triggers a radio shutter control so there are no wires trailing between the sensor and the camera. The camera was set to a fixed 1/500 sec with manual focus and auto exposure.

Pond Camera Set Up

Of course the supervisor had to get in on the act.

10 comments:

  1. The Starlings are still the best bathers. They look completely soaked............mad birds!

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  2. Lovely to see a Song Thrush in the garden John. That reminds me, I need to clean and fill our bird bath, the Starlings have emptied it again.

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  3. So nice to see the Song Thrush in the pond, Linda

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  4. Lovely captures John both here and on the previous post which made me smile with its caption :)

    How lovely to see the Song Thrush, one of my favourite birds but one which (like you) I rarely see these days. Its song is my absolute favourite, it always sounds rather comical to me and never fails to make me smile. I wish I heard it more often.

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  5. Whenever I see a bird really going for it in the bird bath, I get a mental picture of someone in the bath with a back brush having a really good sing while they scrub!

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  6. Starlings do tend to throw the water everywhere Paul.

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  7. It's funny Jan. I hear several Mistle Thrushes but virtually never a Song Thrush even though there is obviously one nearby.

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  8. That is just what some are like Matron. They take their bathing very seriously.

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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