Jay

[Rich Steel]

Hi

Here i another photo from my recent attempts to capture flying Jays. This is a bird leaving the feeding area with a crop and beak full of peanuts to go and find and place to bury them. This is one useful part of the Jay behaviour as they will constantly fly backwards and forwards to a feeding area to collect nuts to take away and bury. They usually do this with acorns. Now I have them feeding with confidence I hope to shift over to feeding acorns towards the end of this year to get some more natural looking images.



Taken with 1DmkIV with 500mm at ISO1000 and F7.1

Cheers

Rich

[Nicki Gwynn Jones]

Hi Rich,
This looks really good to me. I love the central position of the bird in the frame - it enables us to see the full beauty of the jay's plumage - and I love the perfect positioning of the peanuts! BG is lovely. Very well done.
Best,
Nicki

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Awesome flight image with great pose and excellent detail along with wonderful eye contact. Love the BG and the peanuts are a real bonus for me. Many thanks for sharing Rich.

[Peter Coskun]

Fantastic colors and pose. Image looks nice and sharp and great catch light on the eye.

[Stu Bowie]

Great flight posture Rich, and sharp where it counts. Love the inclusion of the berries in the beak. ( what was your ss? )

[Markus Jais]

Killer image! Wonderful wing pose, great light and Background. The food in the bill is wonderful!

Markus

[Ignacio Yufera]

A great species to get in such good detail. Great eye contact, too. If you get one with an acorn it will be a killer.

Congrats,

[Jonathan Ashton]

You certainly nailed this one Rich, I have been trying to do something very similar from my hide but to date the only visitor to the peanuts has been a chaffinch and the inevitable squirrel!

[Rich Steel]

Thanks for the comments.

The shutter speed was 1/4000s and also -0.7EV.

Cheers

Rich

[arash_hazeghi]

This is an excellent shot, wing position, sharpness and peanuts in the beak take this to the top. Very well done. Congrats

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the wing position and sharpness in this beautiful image.