Building a quick hide

I am back in Jersey now for a couple of weeks to film the red squirrels for my major project.
On the side, I thought that I would photograph a couple birds in the garden.

A mini Christmas tree was planted in the garden few years ago and now it has grown to around 10ft. The birds have favoured this tree and I thought that a blue tit would make a nice shot with the green leaves.
So this afternoon, I decided to construct a simple hide to help me get the shot.



Building the hide:

• I hung camo netting from the upstairs window down to the bottom window.
  This type of netting can be ordered from various places online.
• I weaved an old clothes airer into the bench to hold the shape and to allow space to manuover.
• I then constructed a wind break/blind to the left side of the hide.
  This is waterproof, camo tarpolin was purchased from a local DIY store. (It makes an excellent ground mat too)

 

I allowed enough space to place the tripod inbetween the bench and the window.

I cut a slit through the netting to fit the lens through.
After 20mins the hide was complete!

View from inside

My next step was to attract the birds to the place I want!


I straped a wooden pole against the wall and attached a coconut with a fatball mixture inside (the blue tits favourite at this time of year). This is to attract the blue tits to the area regularly, instead of flying to the other end of the garden where the feeder is.
I also sprinkled some crushed peanuts on the branches for them to feed on.

I was suprised to see that the bluetit was already feeding from the coconut even though its on the other end of the garden, but it got to dark before I could test the hide so I will wait for sunrise tomorrow!

I am going to buy some peanut butter to spread on the branches which should hopefully stop the seeds from falling onto the floor.

Watch this space to see what happens tomorrow morning!

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Spanish Travels

Hello everyone,  i'm back in England, and have just arrived in Cornwall to start my final year in Falmouth.. well after all the partying with freshers before hand. But as you know I have I travelled around Spain for a couple of weeks and flew back a couple days ago. Last year, I travelled Italy and made the stupid but sensible mistake of not bringing my camera so this year with Spain I made sure I had it with me!

So the travelling started of in Madrid where we flew in and stayed in the Centre, I then went to travel the east coast, from the south to north; so Calpe, Valencia, Barcelona and then finally took a ferry across to the Balearic Island of Majorca.

Although this was leisurely planned, I still had time to take a few shots. I will upload a short selection of photos of each place in chronological order (starting with Madrid and ending with Majorca) over a short period of days.

I hope you enjoy!
Here are some shots in Madrid:

Puerta del Sol

The Spanish streets

One of Madrid finest Botanical Gardens

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Regents Park

Sorry I haven't posted any sooner, I had a big deadline so I was working hard for that.
Last week I took another trip up to Regents Park, London again for another shoot for my negotiated project.
This time was a lot better than the first time, because I was able to see the chick of the Heron and I focused on other wildlife and not just the Grey Heron.

Here are a couple images that I took;

Egyptian Goose

Herons fighting over food scraps. 

Starling

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