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Found this little fellow on my evening walk of Little Legs. I'm not sure what they are, but it was one of the most photogenic setups I've encountered in a long time.
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They did not move at all (though I admit that I was about 75 meters away) so I had quite a few opportunities to mix up the composition and play with the hay arrangements.
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Found this little fellow hanging around with some friends of theirs (images below).
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The sticks were quite annoying in the background but I had no other way to compose (since I can't walk through 2 meters tall and thicker than the Amazon Forest thorn bush in front of me).
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That reminds me that I am not excited about the winter's naked bushes and trees with f 6.3 aperture for birds.
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On the open field, there were tens of Swallows flying around and it hit me, they were flying around because the cows in the field had hundreds of flies annoying them and the Swallows were swooping around them for easy meals.
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Didn't get too many great shots of them. I wish I had more free time to put into research, observation and shooting birds in flight.
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The only image I got up close of a Swallow though it's a 5 MP crop at the very edge of the frame BUT, despite not being tack sharp, it did capture the colours very well (which is a first for me).
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The best moment of the walk is being scared to death (for both of us, me and the bird) by a screech of a mature Buzzard hiding inside the forest. I wish I would have noticed it first but it was darn near impossible if it hadn't flown to a farther tree.
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Not the crispiest images possible but it was the first time I'd seen one inside a forest, it was in the evening, the place was quite dark, the shutter was quite low and I was high on adrenaline.
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This little fellow did not give up on giving me interesting compositions despite walking in a circle for almost 2 hours, it was still there.