Canon 5D IV Canon 500mm f4 L IS II
Auto ISO 5000 (-033), 1/1000 sec f8
Dull cloudy day, ACR + PSCC
Image taken in the back garden, sunflower seeds used for bait. It has taken a long time for the coal tits to return and then I get this! Haven't really a clue what's going on, is it a faecolith of some sort or maybe a piece of spider's web?? Anyone any ideas??
Hi Jon, I'm going with some sticky spider web as I see a bit on the foot as well as on the top of the leg... I just don't think the bird would be looking at an "evacuation!" Kinda looks like a tail, some hybrid! TFS
Nice BG and I like the perch. Being a bit nit picky I would like a few less of them to be out of focus on the left but you were already at f/8. I think a piece of spider web as well, but agree it does look like a tail. Fun pose though. I think I would do a bit more NR on the BG and there is a spot between two branches, on the left of the bird as viewed that appears noisier that draws my eye. TFS
Good backyard result, though I might have selected a slightly simpler perch to get it all in focus as Alex suggested. That thing hanging off him is both interesting and distracting. Great look at the legs though I wish for a more direct subject engagement.
Excellent job of framing the perch but a simpler one with all in focus as suggested by Alex et. al. would be better. Assuming that this is not a "toothpaste" shot (i.e., frozen bird poop) then I have no clue. I think that you could open up the face a bit and then lose the ????
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Thanks very much everyone, I am afraid the cluster of seed heads on the elder is too deep to get them all in focus at this distance/magnification, the cluster on the right is much less deep hence better focus. I also noticed I should have tidied up that cut off twig just beneath the unidentified object, normally I would patch/clone/fill the cut surface or simpler still just rub a bit of dirt on it before commencing photography.