A Blue Tit flies in, grabs a peanut and flies off again.

It’s not  easy to photograph these very fast flying small birds in flight but my method is to pre-focus on a likely spot, a baited post for example, and then fire off the shutter as they fly in and out.  A fast shutter speed is imperative and as I have said before, needs to be at least 1/4000 to freeze the action without any movement blur.

Capturing the action is what it’s all about and this shows one of the Nuthatches leaving the free offerings, wings just about to open fully.

I had another interesting day at the “infinity hide” yesterday, I waited for the Buzzard(s) to come in and perch at least on the near fence posts but you need more than just patience, luck is a big factor as well of course. I am hoping that when the weather gets colder and winter sets in, food will be more difficult to find, they will be more inclined to come in to the rabbit carcass. Frankly it’s been quite a revelation to learn that they don’t home in on the dead rabbits as soon as they have been put out. I have seen Buzzards soaring above and looking for prey but ignoring the dead rabbit. I would have thought that the free and easy to find food would immediately be taken but that is not the case. The rabbits however, are very attractive to the local foxes and if left out overnight, almost invariably they are taken. The foxes also eat the apples that I have been leaving for them, again interesting and I hadn’t realised that fruit was such a big part of a fox diet.