I bought a wireless remote for my camera the other day and it arrived this morning. I gave it a test run and all was working perfectly.
After my usual morning shopping expedition, I set up the garden ready for some bird watching action.
I dropped the floating table down to a lower branch so I could shoot down onto it and planted the tripod behind a shrub and palm tree. I set the camera up and went inside.
I had an excellent view of the floating table from the back door so I dragged up a dining chair and waited. The poodles thought I was mad and sat watching me. It was a lot better sitting down than standing motionless in the garden.
There was a flurry of activity on the table and I pressed my remote. The noise of the camera snapping away sent the birds flying off. But they were quickly back.
I eventually spotted a nuthatch standing, picking up bits of food. He even stayed on the table when I set the camera clicking away. It was a very exciting moment. I really wanted to blip a nuthatch.
After a while I went and collected the camera to check the images. About 20 minutes later I reset the camera up properly and had a second attempt.
The settings on the camera were not where they should have been and all the images were rubbish. I’d missed the nuthatch completely. I was obviously in too much of a hurry and hadn’t checked everything. Stupid Gaz!
My second attempt was more successful but the nuthatch didn’t come back. Of course there were lots of blue tits (and lots of pictures of them) but this was my favourite.
Blue tit
I also managed to get a rather nice female blackbird.
Mrs Blackbird
The nuthatch will have to wait for another day.
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I just heard on the news that Ken Russell died today. A great director. He’ll be remembered for being courageous and original. Sadly missed.
