Photographing Jays in flight, its a difficult task!

Getting good photographs of birds in flight is a hard thing to achieve successfully, but extremely rewarding and enjoyable when you get some results. At this time of year when the light isn't really bright the camera has to work really hard and you need to be on the ball as you adjust the settings of the camera to strive for the highest shutter speed.

I couldn't say with accuracy but I would guess that a Jay is at least 25 times bigger than a Nuthatch. In the context of photography, this means that you need to be even more accurate in your camera settings to acheive any kind of result whatsoever with a comparitevly tiny bird like this. You can see how the moss in the photograph is razor sharp but the bird is slightly, if only slightly blurred? This is because 1/2000 of a second is just not fast enough to freeze the action of small birds in flight who fly incredibly quickly.Related articles