[Theme] Show Birds

[knb]

A Coal tit from the same session.

These are the smallest of the family, and also the least afraid of humans. I was sitting quite still for a long time with the camera to my eye, and the Coal tit landed on my shoulder once. And also on my fingers, partly holding the camera and partly pressing the shutter button. A nice encounter for someone liking these small birds...

[Fons Baerken]

A Coal tit from the same session.

These are the smallest of the family, and also the least afraid of humans. I was sitting quite still for a long time with the camera to my eye, and the Coal tit landed on my shoulder once. And also on my fingers, partly holding the camera and partly pressing the shutter button. A nice encounter for someone liking these small birds...

Lovely story!

[golunvolo]

Lovely story!

 Yes!

 Very nice use of the straight diagonal dead wood to present your subject.

[Bruno Schroder]

Nice picture, Kjetil.

[Akira]

Pretty and wild at the same time.  Nice capture, Kjetil!

[ColinM]

A Coal tit from the same session.

Thats a beautiful image Kjetil

[knb]

Thanks Fons, it was indeed a lovely visit by this small friend.

I liked the framing this fence gave. Luckily, the bird chose this as a landing spot for a short moment. Thanks Paco.

Thanks Bruno.

Thanks a lot Akira.

The little charmer posed like a professional, thanks Colin.

[aerobat]

Eurasian Nuthatch

a lovely capture Kjetil

[knb]

Thank you for your comment Daniel.
The background here was a rather dim green forest, so I found that it worked best in black/white.

[Bruno Schroder]

Feeding frenzy close to the shoreline with hundreds of seagulls dive bombing for almost 2 hours. I can't figure out what they're fishing.

[ARTUROARTISTA]

Feeding frenzy close to the shoreline with hundreds of seagulls dive bombing for almost 2 hours. I can't figure out what they're fishing.

Hola Bruno. Around this time, large schools of fish sometimes come close to the coast to spawn, where the water is warmer.

[Bruno Schroder]

Hi Arturo, that's what I thought but the shape of what they catch seems odd for a fish, much more like little crabs. If it's crabs, they must be in the thousands to sustain such activity, so I'm puzzled.

[Hans_S]

I was watching a similar event here yesterday. We see schools of Australian Salmon (Arripis Trutta) herding masses of smaller (anchovy size) fish into a tight bunches and then ripping through them in a feeding frenzy. Not all of the small fish are swallowed whole, the chopped up scraps floating to the surface are just what the gulls, cormorants and terns go for, creating an aerial frenzy too. It can be quite spectacular at times with 40cm fish flying nearly 1m into the air among the flying birds!

[Ann]

It looks like Crabs to me.
There is a gull in the second image which does seem to have a crab in his beak