Finally a titmouse

Gallery: AvianPosted December 4, 2014169 views4 comments

Sorry for posting a photo with the bird at a feeder, but have been trying for some time to get a decent photo of a tufted titmouse. This one was at the Sugar Grove Nature Center in central Illinois, about 150 miles south of the state of Chicago, and made repeated trips to the feeder, each stop barely a minute.

Canon PS SX60
1/320 @ F-8 ISO320
Canon 3.8-247 @ 247mm
monopod.

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by keith mitchell on December 4, 2014 at 1:52 PM

Sounds like hard work John, very nice neat little bird ,not the most natural feeder for you .

Keith.

Registered on July 12, 2008, 127 Posts, 1735 Comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on December 4, 2014 at 3:48 PM

Good detail on the bird, and a nice pose. Titmice are like that. The will get one grain, fly off and eat it, then back for more.

Registered on July 24, 2006, 2741 Posts, 12349 Comments

Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on December 5, 2014 at 10:27 AM

Not an easy subject at all John. My best images of these guys was from one of the photo farms in south Texas from a blind...and even then, you have to be fast on the trigger...they are there one minute and gone the next...very fast little fellas indeed.

Registered on June 19, 2008, 1005 Posts, 8028 Comments

Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on December 6, 2014 at 7:13 AM

Hi John,

These guys provide a lot of frustration and practice for the trigger finger. Last Summer, I saved one of the babies from a cat and mom rewarded me by sitting on a branch and letting me get off a nice shot--that's karma

. You have a nice pose and pretty good detail on your capture,,,,,,,,,,,,,Jim

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