Well a new year has begun and as happens every year I look forward to what nature has in store as life unfolds around me. My first nature project is going to be focused on the birds that inhabit or pass through this place. I have always enjoyed watching birds and while appreciating them as wild animals I have never taken the time to study them. year, I decided, I was going to pay more attention and also try to encourage members of our Nature Whatsapp group to participate in a survey.
I made a start by resurrecting our bird feeding table and stocked it with wildflower seed and fat cakes. Perhaps because the weather was wet and windy few birds bothered to look at it for about a week but with the drier weather it aroused interest amongst a flock of blackbirds, together with magpies and pheasants.
I made a start by resurrecting our bird feeding table and stocked it with wildflower seed and fat cakes. Perhaps because the weather was wet and windy few birds bothered to look at it for about a week but with the drier weather it aroused interest amongst a flock of blackbirds, together with magpies and pheasants.
After a few attempts to photograph some birds I realised that I could not get close enough to them to take a good photo. Photographying birds requires more than the camera in my mobile phone. Over the Christmas holiday I did some research into what was the best point and shoot camera for bird photography and my searches came up with what I thought was well reasoned advice from wildlife photographer Bryan Pfeiffer who suggests that the Nikon Coolpix B700 does the job at the budget I can afford(1). It’s got a 60x zoom and a 20-megapixel sensor. I tracked one down on e-Bay – used but in good condition. I’m very excited and it will arrive in a few days.
Over Christmas I set up a new website https://natureshare.weebly.com/ to enable the photos and videos of the Nature Group to be curated. I added a page for Birds and put together an information sheet on 20 common garden birds and added a simple survey sheet and posted an invitation to participate in a survey in our Whatsapp nature group. And so my work with and for nature in 2024, begins.
(1) https://bryanpfeiffer.com/photography/photography-resources/point-and-shoot-cameras-for-wildlife/
Over Christmas I set up a new website https://natureshare.weebly.com/ to enable the photos and videos of the Nature Group to be curated. I added a page for Birds and put together an information sheet on 20 common garden birds and added a simple survey sheet and posted an invitation to participate in a survey in our Whatsapp nature group. And so my work with and for nature in 2024, begins.
(1) https://bryanpfeiffer.com/photography/photography-resources/point-and-shoot-cameras-for-wildlife/
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