Frederic Desmette

Wildlife Photography

New system

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 For the last few days I have been trying a new system. I was sick and tired for canon to come up with a “proper” mirrorless camera. the R system they have now is just not fast enough.  As I am spending a lot of time inside hides, I think that the new mirrorless system is quite important. The best feature is that you can shoot without making any noise! Here are a few shots taken with a mirrorless camera. The weather as been diabolical recently and it was quite good to test the camera in poor weather condition….more later

Frederic

woodland hide.

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I was in my woodland hide few days ago. I want to maximise on those colours. the leaves are superb at the moment. I photograph all sort of passerine amongst them.

Frederic

New perch

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This Sunday I went to one of my feeding station. I wanted to try a new perch! This is very different, but I like it.
What do you think?

Frederic

 

Woodland hide take 2

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Today, I went for three hours to my woodland hide. I have made some changed to one of the prop. I have saw some of the piece of steel. I wanted a different shot. They were a lot birds. I did not have to wait long for both woodpeckers, male and female to show up on my modified post. Suddenly, I heard a commotion and a kestrel appeared from nowhere. The bird landed first on my post and then went on the branch in front of the hide. What a cracking bird . This is the third species of raptor that I have seen at my woodland hide. I suppose that my feeding station is a bit like a supermarket for raptor. Twice the sparrowhawk came down but did not land and I had a buzzard once. The kestrel stayed for 25 minutes!!

I wish that it was like that every time I go to one of my hides…

Frederic