Yellowhammers and a Corn Bunting

[bassman]

Here are some from today ,taken from the drivers seat of a car so no flash [bright sunlight for a change] .Pentax K-5/Sigma 500mm f4.5 EX DG

Yellowhammer by Gary Chalker, on Flickr

Yellowhammer by Gary Chalker, on Flickr

Yellowhammer by Gary Chalker, on Flickr

Corn Bunting by Gary Chalker, on Flickr

[lensoreat]

i like these without the lighting from a flash,    nice how you have all the yellows.

[Pacerr]

Well done again, Gary.

Ya know, I often wonder where we'd be today if the likes of Charlie Darwin had an image capture machine the equivalent of a Pentax DSLR and a neato DA* lens aboard the HMS Beagle . . . or Johnny Audubon and his contemporaries . . . ? Shooting/capturing birds would have had a whole different meaning I suppose.

What do ya think? Would they have been Pentaxians? Or a lesser evolutionary breed?

[Mike Pearson]

Excellent captures Gary, love the Corn Bunting shot 

Mike

[bassman]

Excellent captures Gary, love the Corn Bunting shot 

Mike

Thanks Lensoreat,Hank and Mike.
I had a tip off from someone that a lot of Yellowhammers and Corn Buntings were eating dumped corn on the side of a muddy track in a small copse, the shots were all taken from the drivers seat of a car [which I nearly got stuck]
The birds were really flighty taking off at the slightest sign of movement.