Pintails

[Stan]

Probably my favourite bird from Slimbridge last week, loads of flight shots and difficult to choose but here are a couple

Stan

male 1/1600, f8, ISO 400, 420mm


group of 2x male and 1x female 1/1250, f7.1, ISO 400, 420mm

[Alan Campbell]

Re: Pintails

I have yet to see these near me this year.
I usually manage a shot or 2 on a pond but not been close enough for flight shots.
These are both well exposed with great detail, and blur on the wings too.
Cracking images.

Alan

[the black fox]

Re: Pintails

slim bridge seems to attract the species ,i presume there truly wild stan .pintails are normally hard to track down

[Stan]

Re: Pintails

thanks Alan and Jeff

i presume there truly wild stan .pintails are normally hard to track down

totally wild, last weeks sighting posted over 250 and even today at London Wetlands there were a few and more local, a friend was at Blashford Lakes last week and there were a good number of them there too.

Stan

[Bill53]

Re: Pintails

Superb shots Stan.

Bill.

[tesarver]

Re: Pintails

Nice set Stan, but I'm particularly impressed with the 2nd images. ++

Tom

[Stan]

Re: Pintails

thanks for looking Bill and Tom

stan

[Stan]

Re: Pintails

Another group

Stan

[Birdy]

Re: Pintails

Lovely looking birds and some great detail. Seems you had a good day out Stan.

[Stan]

Re: Pintails

Thanks Andrew

Seems you had a good day out Stan

usually on a full day out we will shoot around 300-400 shots between us but here we came back with close on 1000 - so yes a particularly good day

stan

[Tigger]

Re: Pintails

some great images Stan

[Stan]

Re: Pintails

thanks Ian

stan