First up for me was a very obliging Dunnock, I have to constantly remind myself that I need to photograph the everyday species for this blog.
26. Dunnock
I've decided that until I have time to sit down and work out how to use an imaging software tool (photoshop, gimp etc), I will upload the full image as I've noticed that cropping it in Paint leaves the image a lot more blurred than if you just zoom into the original. So although the remainder of todays photos look like landscape or scenery photos, I promise that if you click on them and zoom in then you will see a bird roughly in the middle of the image.
There wasn't a great deal of bird life around Battersea Park, a small number of Tufted Duck, a couple of Canada Geese and the odd Blue and Great Tit flitting around in the bushes was generally the mainstay. The most noticeable birds of the visit though were the noisy Grey Heron who are actively nest building and appear to be in the process of displaying. There were quite a large number in the tops of the trees on the islands.
Walking around the boating lake, several Ring Necked Parakeets were observed flying over, they were also doing their best to drown out the noise of the Herons with their own particular racket.... Anyway I finally found one within reasonable photographing distance, the only problem was that it was in the top of a tree so I was shooting into a grey sky. This is something that I need to work on as I find it almost impossible to work out the correct balance for making the subject stand out without over exposing the image, this was the best of a bunch I took, experimenting with different apertures, ISO's and shutter speeds...
27. Ring Necked Parakeet
On the other side of the boating lake amongst the Tufted Duck and Pochard were a couple of Red Crested Pochard and a pair of Gadwall, this was the best image I could get of the Gadwall as they swam away and into cover, I will endeavour to obtain a better image over the course of this blog however, for the sake of the race, this will suffice for now.
28. Red Crested Pochard
29. Gadwall
I was now coming to the end of my walk around the park and was about to put the camera away ready for my trip across town to the office when I found some obliging Woodpigeon (I'd seen a fair few around the park but they were all in impossible poses/locations to allow a suitable shot to be taken).
30. Woodpigeon
After the woodpigeon I turned the camera off, then whilst walking out of the park I noticed a small movement in the hedgerow which turned out to be a Wren, he was more than happy scampering around in the undergrowth with me observing so I turned the camera back on and managed to capture quite a few shots which required a fair amount of adjustment with the aperture, ISO and eventually shutter speed just to get to the image below. The first images I captured were all blurred, these were on an aperture of about f5 with ISO's from 100-3200, I then experimented using the flash which seemed to help, however when I loaded the images onto the computer, the images for which I'd used the flash were not quite as clear as those without. The end result was f5.6, ISO 400, 1/13 exposure. I have placed a red box around the Wren, just in case you don't believe he is there....!
31. Wren
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