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Come Home Birdie
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| Photo Information |
| Copyright: Harsh Awasthi (harshawasthi) (22) |
| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-03-31 |
| Categories: Birds |
| Exposure: f/4.5, 1/160 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-04-04 8:59 |
| Viewed: 455 |
| Points: 10 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Sparrows sitting & chirping on the trees in my garden were a common site till few years ago. But with increasing concrete jungles this is now becoming a sweet childhood memory.
House Sparrow Facts - Sparrows are 14-16 cm long, weigh 27-39 and are very chirpy, with grey and brown as the predominate colours. They fly at a speed of 38,5 km per hour - they can even reach speeds of more than 50 km per hour, though not for too long. They nest under the eaves of our homes, in holes in the masonry of our walls and buildings or in the climbing plants or creepers we grow up the walls of our houses. The house sparrow raises three nests - 3-5 eggs per nest - of chicks a year. Both male and female help to incubate the eggs for 12-14 days, with the little ones flying out after 15 days.
Sparrows love messy gardens with lots of seeds, insects and berries and, since less and less people garden the natural way, there's less and less food available for them.
As usual, where there's a problem, there's a lot of disagreement about the causes of the decline in numbers of the common sparrow.
• "Stony deserts", covered in paving stones and covered with stones and gravel - easy upkeep, no time and effort required and very few plants;
• Neat and tidy - nothing wild in the form of seeds or insects welcome here - for appearances sake, what would the neighbours think if our garden didn't look like a boring still-life painting with solitary plants surrounded by a neatly raked wide circle of bare soil;
• A showcase for garden furniture and currently fashionable flowering plants which are usually sterile and don't provide nectar or pollen for birds and insects;
• Devoid of insect life due to the over-use of chemical pesticides - "insect killers" - and herbicides - "weed killers" - in gardens where the range of plants - "bio-diversity" is too narrow;
• We build insulated houses nowadays - reduces the heating bills but the air inside isn't very healthy - so there are no more eaves, nooks and crannies available for the sparrow to nest in or around our homes. |
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Hello ,
The picture is well composed.You could have left more space to the Left side of the picture.TFS
Akshay
Hello Harsh & welcome to TN.
Good exposure, DOF, and detail. Nice background also.
Perhaps a bit more space in front of the bird would be better?
TFS!
Howard
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Hi Harsh!
Nice colors, but I think a bit too tight crop. Details are fairly ok with a camera like this. Very good for first try, TFS!
Welcome to TN,
best regards,
Andor
Hello Brother,
Welcome to TN!! Very nice close up shot of the sparrow. The only problem that I see here is the noise in the picture. It could either be because you may have used digital Zoom in an attempt to get closer or while trying to get a closer and bigger shot you cropped the image too tight, which blowed it up.
Besides that a very good start. Try keeping out the human touch, like the pipe that the bird is sitting on... keep it natural.
Looking forward to more pics from you. Keep'em coming!!
TFS
Kirti
Harsh,
Welcome to TN..
I like this shot of yours for its composition and the beautiful subject...But I'd honestly say,birding is for those who have the big cams, I'd rather start with landscapes, and then graduate to birding, slowly.I've blundered with some shots...
Hope to see more work of yours as the days go by.
Cheers!
Goldy
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