Thursday, March 13, 2014

Goldfinches on Teasels

I've done very little photography of late, but here's a video of some Goldfinches feeding on Teasels which I filmed with my Canon 7D last December. I tempted the Goldfinches down with some niger seeds placed in the Teasel seedheads:


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  1. Excellent. Damn wind there is always something to spoil things.

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    1. Hi Adrian, I quite like the wind here as it gives a bit of movement and makes the video more interesting. Bugger for photos, though!

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  2. Beautiful Jeremy. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Beautiful Jeremy I have six come in my garden love to watch them must try and photograph them one day. Thanks for sharing. xx

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    1. You're lucky to have them in your garden, Gaenor. I had to put these teasels a mile or two from home where I'd seen some quite approachable Goldfinches.

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  4. That is an amazing coincidence as we've been to Rhuddlan Nature reserve today and brought back some teasel heads and did exactly the same thing to tempt the goldfinches to land on them for some better photo shots - I thought it was a great idea of mine but you obviously thought of it way before I did!

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    1. Hi Sharon, I think I got the idea from Simon King a few years ago.His suggestion was to use poppy seeds,but they didn't work, so I tried niger, which worked like a charm, so to speak!

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