Walking on a Spring morning.

Susan and I were out walking yesterday on a local hillside enjoying a beautiful spring morning. A breeze blew on the top of the hills but it was more refreshing than cold. The ground up high was firm underfoot, unlike the mud down on the low lying areas of the Brecon Beacons. Skylarks sang from on high and Meadow Pipits darted around in front of us as we walked along. As we were passing a fallen tree we could see four Northern Wheatears perched together on one branch. These are a beautiful spring migrant to the Beacons where they always favour high ground, where they breed. As we passed by one bird popped up onto an old fence post to check us out and I didn’t need any encouragement to take a photograph. This is the advantage of carrying a high quality compact zoom lens which weighs very little. The Canon R5 in the 1.6 crop factor mode coupled with the Canon RF100-500 f7.1 is ideal in these situations With the RF 1.4 extender fitted this gives a focal length of 1120mm. Full image stabilization on the lens and camera body makes hand held shots eminently possible.

Beautiful little birds.