Firecrest

[John Robinson]

Firecrest (Regulus ignicapillus)

One from my little woodland pool.
Smallest European bird along with the Goldcrest. It is an inch smaller than a Blue Tit. Just shows that if you stick to a hide for long enough something eventually happens. I only got about 8 shots. No camera shake – but I had !!
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So tiny it floated around on that leaf it is sitting on.
Re worked. I still reckon the old D100 and D200 were better noisewise than the modern D71000 This is a big crop- about 50% of the frame.
Nikon D100
Sigma 100-300 f4
800 ISO
Neat inage
80th sec @f7.1
Cheers
JohnR
PS If anyone can tll me what those white whispy things are to the right of the bird I would be grateful. They turn up on quite a few of my pool shots.

[William Dickson]

Great capture John. Fantastic little bird and perch(leaf). Not very often you see these little beautys. I have only seen the one. Yes, great capture. Well done and thanks for sharing. For your info your type is coloured white :e3.

[John Robinson]

Thanks Will. What colour should it be ?
Cheers
John

[William Dickson]

Any colour apart from white :S3: Its difficult to see. I mean the description of the bird etc, under the image :S3:

[William Dickson]

It has been ok on all your posts John, but, for some reason its showing white on this one