Spotting flycatchers

Summer is here.  Or at least the Spotted Flies are back.  This year I've been fortunate to have a pair appear just behind my house - certainly not a bird I ever expected to have from my garden in the house I am currently in!  These birds aren't those, but they were taken not too far away.  They are a fantastic bird to practice taking images of.  The Panasonic GX7 really pulls out more detail than I have ever experienced from a digiscoping camera - I am exceptionally pleased with it.  So if anyone is dithering about what new digiscoping camera to get, look at one of these and the 20mm f1.7 pancake lens - awesome!

SF

Some more Spottie Flies from the summer...

Spotties

Don't think I've processed these very well, but these chaps were posing so well yesterday evening at Tempsford, I thought I'd post them quickly anyway. Spotted Flycatchers, 15th June 2010.

Migrant spotting

Spotted Flycatcher, Broom GP, 1st Sep.

Spottie flickers

I had a few days photographing Spottie Flies mid-month. This pair are in a local church yard. They really are lovely birds, with bags of character. Luckily in Beds, the population seems to be stable. July 2009.