Hey there little birdie.

[Slugbug]

Yo!

I went for a walk by the sea the other day and I thought I'd try to bird some. I had an awesome time, but I have yet to get the hang of the erratic movements of the birds to get good shots. The light was poor, and I had to use slow shutters to compensate thus making pretty much all of my shots a blur.

I got a sharp one here though. The bird wouldn't pose for me properly, but that's how it goes I guess.

It's an oystercatcher by the way, or a tjeld as we say in Norway.



Aperture: f/4,8
Exposure time: 1/40 sec
Focal length: 155 mm
ISO: 800

C&C welcome!

[Peter Ryan]

Birds are not easy and you do need a fast shutter. Well done with this shot, capturing the bird in its natural habitat.

[JohnC]

You obviously have the same light problems as we do here - worse I'd imagine a being that farther north I saw a lot of these birds on a trip to Scotland and with birds/animals you really do need good light to get that shutter speed up but this is a good shot anyway, maybe if you'd spoken to it nicely it might have obliged with a good pose