Disappointed at first, I then spotted a bird, no idea what it is. It was a bit bigger than a sparrow I think. Can anyone identify it?
I then thought, oh well at least I can snap birds while I'm here but I then started to see grayings and then walls, lots of them,
mostly males and having a right old ding dong between them as well.
Grayings were quite easy to shoot when they weren't getting tangled up in wall territorial disputes:
Probably due to being on the lookout for territory incursions by other males, the walls were terribly skittish.
I'm also fairly certain they didn't like my white trainers as I could get within about six feet then as soon as they saw MY feet they were off.
For well over an hour I was chasing them getting thoroughly cheesed off with this damned species, so I tried a fallback,
which is to stack my 1.5x converter on top of the close up lens on my Canon S3.
Image quality takes a hit but with a bit of care choosing aperture size it's not bad.
This enables me to get a moderate close-up from about three feet away, and this is what I got:
That was the only open wing shot that any individual would allow, but I did get another shot with closed wings:
All in all, a satisfying day out with great views and lots of exercise.
Slopes are steep so wear stout shoes, preferrably not white (!), and stay out of the gorse to avoid ticks.
