Quantity not Quality

Right!

I feel a contest coming on – and in this case it is not for the ‘best quality’ photograph of birds on a single feeder – it is quantity – not quality that I want to see.

While I was replenishing my feeding station and had just filled a feeder with the latest TWOOTZ fat balls and was going back for the peanuts - it was like a scene from the famous Hitchcock film – “Birds”.

I counted more than twenty tits of various types on the feeding station – Blue Tits, Great Tits, a single Marsh Tit, a single Coal Tit and a party of Long Tailed Tits – all desperate to stake a claim on the Fat Balls.

My big pro cameras were upstairs in their cases so I grabbed a mobile phone from my pocket and managed to capture ten tits on a single feeder at the same time – OK I’m not proud of the quality and the shutter of the phone did not stop the action – but the pictures are there.

I’m sure that TWOOTZ regulars have crowded bird tables too – so why not try to get a shot with as many birds on a feeder as you can – and send it in to TWOOTZ!

I have been a pro photographer for just over sixty years and have kept up to date with digital progress – so anyone tempted to ‘Photoshop’ the odd bird or two into their picture – be warned!

Incidentally the fat balls are really popular – Robins, Starlings, Sparrows, Chaffinches, a pair of Nuthatches even Blackbirds and a Collared Dove have also been trying to get their share.