Tired but Happy...

Nuthatch

It has been a tiring day, standing on a hill top at Calke Abbey in sub zero temperatures certainly takes it out of you, well it does me anyway. But it has been worth it. I have just looked at the images I captured this morning and they are great. I will work at these in the next few days - boy have I got some catching up to do - and I will no doubt have a better idea as to whether I am satisfied but early indications are encouraging. One last thing - it is great to be out of that cold wind.

Boy was it cold!

Nuthatch - Calke Abbey

Well I am finally warming up having spent most of the day out in the field taking photographs.  Well, this is not strictly true.  Most of the time I was sitting in my car pressing the wireless remote as the camera took the brunt of the cold.   However, I did spend about half an hour or so standing outside at Calke abbey - that was enough even through layers of thermal fleeces, long johns and coats.   Was it worth it?  Yes and no.  Yes because I was able to capture some interesting studies of the Nuthatch and no because the montage images are a little disappointing.  I relied on the auto exposure and for some reason when shooting at high speed, circa 6 FPS and 100th plus a second the images were under exposed.   Something to ponder about.   For the record I took over 1800 images which I was able to whittle down to just over 300 - these in turn will be used for 6 montage images.  The rest were portrait of birds and the odd landscape.

All in all a good day, with a few reservations.