Black Redstart

[Graeme]

Saw a pair of these in the garden yesterday:

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Never seen them before! We identified them from this site:

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildl ... fy-a-bird/

RSPB reports fewer than 100 breeding pairs in the UK. I hope they manage to evade the Magpies.

Regards

Graeme

[stuck]

Not wishing to dampen your excitement but given the rarity of the black redstart are you sure it wasn't the much more common fieldfare:
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildl ... fieldfare/

Ken

[ChrisGreaves]

... are you sure it wasn't the much more common fieldfare:

Yabbut!
Graeme's garden is in The Andromeda Galax!
Pretty well-focused photo, IMHO.
Cheers
Chris

[John Gray]

Pretty well-focused photo, IMHO.

I think you'll find that this poor bird had been photoshopped.
Or drawn!

[ChrisGreaves]

I think you'll find that this poor bird had been photoshopped.
Or drawn!

Nah.
Graeme said "Saw a pair of these" and I suspect that he is too cheap to run off TWO copies of a colour print.
Cheers
Chris
P.S. UNless you are suggesting that he edits and generally post-processes those astronomically fabulous images of his?
C

[stuck]

... suggesting that he edits and generally post-processes those astronomically fabulous images of his?...

There's no suggesting, it's a definite. There is a lot of post-processing involved in producing good astrophotos.

Ken

[Graeme]

Not wishing to dampen your excitement but given the rarity of the black redstart are you sure it wasn't the much more common fieldfare:
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildl ... fieldfare/

Ken

Not dampened at all Ken. All the garden birds we see are a pleasure. Not a Fieldfare though. We saw the first one for a couple of days and he was dark grey, not brown on the back, red/brown tail, not black and had the two distinctive white flecks on his wing tips. And he wasn't as big as a fieldfare. We saw the second one join him Sunday afternoon.

I watched him through my 11x70 binoculars but I had to stand at the front of the house to get far enough away to focus!

I think you'll find that this poor bird had been photoshopped.
Or drawn!

The RSPB site uses drawings for all their images, not sure why but it gives the site a nice country naturalist feel. They do a bird song audio for each bird too. The Blackstart has an archetypal morning chorus song! If you list a few birds on seperate tabs, you can play them all at the same time!

P.S. UNless you are suggesting that he edits and generally post-processes those astronomically fabulous images of his?
C

The post processing takes longer than the image capturing!

[Graeme]

If you list a few birds on seperate tabs, you can play them all at the same time!

The Black Redstart, a Blackbird, a Song Thrush and a Wren all go well together!

[ChrisGreaves]

The post processing takes longer than the image capturing!

It's the same across life.
One hour to write a function, seven years to debug it.
I do one hour of recording (books) and three hours of editing the mess.
Cheers
Chris

[stuck]

Not dampened at all...

Lucky you then!

[PaulB]

The Black Redstart, a Blackbird, a Song Thrush and a Wren all go well together!

I thought this was leading into a joke - A Black Redstart, a Blackbird, a Song Thrush and a Wren all go into a bar....

[GeoffW]

I thought this was leading into a joke - A Black Redstart, a Blackbird, a Song Thrush and a Wren all go into a bar....

I thought it may have been leading to a partridge in a pear tree.

[ChrisGreaves]

I thought this was leading into a joke - A Black Redstart, a Blackbird, a Song Thrush and a Wren all go into a bar....

I thought it may have been leading to a partridge in a pear tree.

Apearently knot.

(Sorry, I just noticed that there were FOUR birds)
A pair of a parently knot.
Cheers
Chris