Robin Red Breast

I have decided to do my habitat project at Trebah gardens. It will involve going to the gardens on a regular basis to investigate, research and record how it changes through the seasons. So far I have identified a walkway that I will begin investigating, called the beach path, before homing into a more confined area to fully investigate using different photography techniques. I will keep you updated with my progress and photographs along my six month journey.

Below shows photographs of my most recent trip to the gardens. I went to investigate and identify the bird life seen down the beach path. I found blackbirds (Turdus merula), blue tits(Cyanistes caeruleus), coal tits (Periparus ater), wrens (Cistothorus palustris) and my favourite, the robins (Erithacus Rebecula).

ALL IMAGES COPYRIGHT ABBI HUGHES

I sat quietly on a bench outside the cafe where I left some bread crumbs and waited for the tame robins to arrive. I was using a Nikon D200 and standard 18-70mm lens. It was photographed with ISO 200, 1/200th of a second and f8.

This is a cropped photograph that I find really exciting as its in good focus and shows the viewers the makeup, structure and colour of this delicate robins feathers. It shows an intimate insight. Photographed using D200, 70mm lens, f8, ISO 200, 1/200th of a second.

The little robin then hopped down off its wooden pirch to almost pose for me at the table I was sitting at. I felt very lucky to be having such a close encounter with a wild and glorious bird.

Other birds that I saw whilst visiting the gardens included:

Greenfinches

Goldfinches

Chaffinches (male and female)

Blackbirds (male and Female)

Blue tits

Great Tits

Coal Tits

Buzzards

Mallards

Herring Gulls

Black Headed Gulls

I hope you enjoyed my images. More of the gardens will be comming shortly.

Abbi

Location : Trebah Gardens
Date: 23rd January 2011
Time: 3pm - 5pm
Weather: Southerly warm and gentle winds, strong sunlight, occasional cloud covor.  
Map Reference: SW767273