We have a little piece of land deep in Polish countryside. On that piece of land we have a little orchard with apples, cherries, peaches and pears. One corner of the place is left for whatever and overtime some wild trees started to grow there. Few pines were planted, cause pines are cool, some birches - they are cool too and lilac bushes. On the edge of that part we have 3 giant walnut trees. And this part looks like a wild forest.
The place is quiet and away from the roads. Perfect spot to chill and listen to the bids. Oh yes... there are birds there! In summer, because of the foliage, you can only hear them. But in winter they don't have many spots to hide and it is a perfect time to shoot them!
One December day I decided to go there just for that. I left my beloved macro Sigma at home and took the Tamron for a walk (even though it is a zoom lens I really like the bokeh from it too!). Once I saw a flock of Bohemian waxwing birds and Eurasian bullfinch. So yea.. I was hoping to catch some of them. Unfortunately they weren't there at that time. But besides all the sparrows and Great tits I saw this guy!
You can read a lot about it in Wikipedia so I will not repeat it :)
It is quite a common one where we live and since we have woods around, it often visits not only the orchard, but also a garden close to the house where we have some old apple and plum trees. It never stays long and gets spooked very easily. So nice to see him around the trees hopping up and down looking for larvae in the bark.
This meeting was very short too. I hid under the trees trying to
get closer to get better shot, but I didn't want to scare him. I stretched my lens then and started to shoot.
Few minutes later he looked around, checked on me...
... and flew away!
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Shot with Nikon D5500 + Tamron 70-300mm lens
(ƒ/10, 1/320, 300mm, ISO800)
All photos and text are my own.
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