Egrets, Greenfinches and Swallows all at Hayle RSPB hide

Hi Again,

A long time since the thread was updated, I have been busy enternaining summer visitors, replacing the dashboard and fitting a rock and roll bed to my van. I visited the hide at Hayle a couple of times this weekend, managed to get some close ups of Swallows and Goldfinches and some, what I consider my best shots to date of the egrets feeding. One evening I was just about to leave as the light was so bad, when the cloud lifted slightly and two egrets started feeding one either side of the hide. So even though there is not much around there sometimes arises an opportunity to get better quality images of subjects you have already taken. The goldfinch started feeding to my surprise about 5ft to my left as the 600mm was fitted I moved back so I could focus as my original position was to close. Once I had some shots, as the light was poor I grabbed the 5d with flash to get a couple more. My 5D and 100-400mm lens are now the back up to my 1dmk11 and 600mm as I have sold the 40D. First pictures from the 5d are in this blog post. Hope you enjoy the pictures. Dont forget it is best to view the images at full size.



Egret: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens, Aperture Priority, F4, 1/3200 sec, ISO 400 +/- 0 stop (note the diffence in the shutter speed here, compared with the next three images due to the amount of available light changing from one side of the hide to the other






Egret: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens, Aperture Priority, F4, 1/500 sec, ISO 400 +/- 0 stop

Egret: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens, Aperture Priority, F4, 1/640 sec, ISO 400 +/- 0 stop

Egret: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens, Aperture Priority, F4, 1/640 sec, ISO 400 +/- 0 stop

Goldfinch: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens, Aperture Priority, F4, 1/160 sec, ISO 400, + 1 stop

Goldfinch: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens (840mm with 1.4x converter), Aperture Priority, F4, 1/250 sec, ISO 400, +/- 0 stop

Goldfinch: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens (840mm with 1.4x converter), Aperture Priority, F4, 1/200 sec, ISO 400, +/- 0 stop

Goldfinch: Exif: Canon 5D MK1, 100mm-400mm lens, Aperture Priority, F6.3, 1/125 sec, ISO 200, +/- 0.3 stop, 580ex Flash

Swallow: Exif: Canon 5D MK1, 100mm-400mm lens, Aperture Priority, F5.6, 1/100 sec, ISO 200, +/- 0.3 stop, 580ex Flash

Swallow: Exif: Canon 5D MK1, 100mm-400mm lens, Aperture Priority, F5.6, 1/125 sec, ISO 400, +/- 0.3 stop, 580ex Flash