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	<title>Richard Hardwick Photography &#187; Technique</title>
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		<title>Garden Birds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photographing garden birds is probably what sparked my interest in wildlife photography.  I&#8217;ve spent a fortune on feeders and bird food and brought hundreds of birds into the garden.
Birds attracted by the different foods:
- Niger seed: Goldfinch, Siskin, Lesser Redpoll, Greenfinch, Chaffinch
- Mixed seed: Blue Tit, Great Tit, Marsh Tit, Coal Tit, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Photographing garden birds is probably what sparked my interest in wildlife photography.  I&#8217;ve spent a fortune on feeders and bird food and brought hundreds of birds into the garden.</p>
<p>Birds attracted by the different foods:<br />
- Niger seed: Goldfinch, Siskin, Lesser Redpoll, Greenfinch, Chaffinch<br />
- Mixed seed: Blue Tit, Great Tit, Marsh Tit, Coal Tit, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Collared Dove, Blackbird<br />
- Black Sunflower seeds: Blue Tit, Great Tit, Marsh Tit, Coal Tit, Greenfinch, Chaffinch<br />
- Peanuts: Blue Tit, Great Tit, Marsh Tit, Coal Tit, Great-spotted Woodpecker<br />
- Mealworm: Robin, Blackbird<br />
- Fat block: Robin, Great-spotted Woodpecker</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve attached interesting, lichen covered old branches to the top of one of the feeders to act as a perch and placed the feeder so the background is the opposite side of the valley.  I shoot with the 400mm lens through a gap I&#8217;ve created in the hedge:</p>
<p><center><img src="http://www.oneten.plus.com/apforum/feeders1.jpg" alt="Feeders" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.oneten.plus.com/apforum/feeders2.jpg" alt="Through hedge" /></center></p>
<p>This is the result:</p>
<p><center><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardhardwickphotography/3690683582/" title="Goldfinch by O n e T e n, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3639/3690683582_3099a9b380_o.jpg" width="594" height="457" alt="Goldfinch" /></a><br />
Canon EOS 40D, EF 400mm f/5.6L USM</center></p>
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