Crested Long Tail ??

[John Robinson]

Long Tailed Tit at pool
Taken at the pool yesterday . Done hundreds of these over the years but never seen one with a bit of a crest. Was hoping it would raise it higher but it didntThis bird was one ofa party of 15 which came down.
Could be a new species - a Great Crested Long tailed Tit.
D7000
Sigma 50-500mm
Hide Tripod
800 ISO
125th sec @f9
About 80% of frame.
Thanks for comments on last pic
JohnR

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Great image, John. Like the detail on this cutie. Nice that we see the three or so water drops clinging to the underside of the soaking wet perch.




Geoffrey

[Jonathan Ashton]

Lovely shot - very clean, John I like the scene, it has your "natural" (and enviable!) look to it.
You will probably disagree but for me just a tad on the saturated side.

[John Robinson]

Thanks both.
John- maybe it is a bit Easily fixed.. I wanted to show that subtle pink on the belly.
No saturation boosted by the way- as out of camera apart from I dropping removed and dropped gamma.
Cheers
John

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the setting, pose, wet look and composition works well for that long tail. Very well done John.

[John Wago]

Nice capture!

LTT do show a bit of a crest every now and then, especially when excited.
This one is a first year by the way.
Note the reddish ring around the eye, which is yellow in adults.

regards

[John Robinson]

Thanks John

It was probably a family party -(or two)
JohnR

[John Wago]

LTT's are very sociable creatures and their whole life appears to be one family-party as a matter of speaking. ;)

Thinking about it, . . . I don't remember I ever saw one alone actually!

Regards