Photographing Nuthatches with MFT cameras

[@DennisJacobsenWildlife]

Great episode 😃👍🏻

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thank you Dennis. I regard your channel as one of the best for wildlife photography. No unnecessary padding, info on how and where you take pictures and most important of all your pictures are excellent. You know what you are doing. Keep it up.

[@DennisJacobsenWildlife]

@@MikeLaneFRPS Thanks Mike, really nice words, appreciated. Same to your channel really good stuff you make here on KZbin .. have a great 2023 😁😁😁

[@Marleydia]

Mike, thanks for sharing your experience! What I appreciate most are your comments about the bird behavior and your field experience. I’m two years new to birding and bird photography. So much to learn, but having so much fun! I live in USA/Ohio, but we have many similar species and your helping me build my skills. Thank you!

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Very welcome

[@fgb3126]

Bravo! You are one of the very few KZbin programs that use background music at the correct, proper volume. Just barely noticeable. Most KZbinrs somehow feel that they must put their oh so wonderful music right out there to make very sure you are going to hear it. Oh, yes I hear it! never fear that!!

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Noted!

[@timmienorrie]

Thanks, Mike. Very informative. 👋👋👋👋👋

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Glad it was helpful!

[@brianjones88]

Mike, Thank you for another great year of weekly videos. Brian

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Glad you like them!

[@photobugz]

Thanks for recording!!

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

No problem!!

[@frasercade4302]

Very inspirational...wish I had the time.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

You and me both!

[@ImagesWithPassion]

Merry christmas to you Mike !

[@ammadoux]

breathtaking shots, thanks so much. noticed there colors are like those of the male Northern wheatear.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

They are!

[@laurensschaddelee1173]

Beautiful captures of a beautiful bird. As always I enjoyed your video very much. Thanks for sharing.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Many thanks!

[@stefangoldensteinwildlife9929]

Hello Mike. Wonderfull video with good informations. In my garden are a lot of nuthatches and woodpeckers. Greets Stefan

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mustafakasapoglu]

As always it was a joy to watch your video. Great hints to capture also in my garden. Thank you.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@hjheister]

Mike, thanks for sharing. Wonderful Pictures as always.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@matthewcullen7106]

Very timely video, I've been photographing a lot of nuthatches in the last couple of weeks.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Great to hear!

[@przybylskipawel]

What a great insight! It is so impressing to see such a detailed knowledge on behaviour of so many spiecies of birds.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@1234mfc]

I love your techniques for photographing different birds, you also have amazing knowledge. Your nuthatch photos are stunning.👍

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thanks so much 😊

[@PaKDucati]

Beautiful photographs as usual. Thank you very much for the advice. I hope to convince my wife to set up a small Hide in our garden! Happy Holidays

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Have fun!

[@teresaconley7753]

Love the Nuthatchers, once had a bird house near my shop and got to see the fledgling come out, they didnt fly at first the just walked up the tree:)

[@chrispitman1169]

Brilliant

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thanks.

[@patthompson1253]

Made by day Mike. Thank you - can't wait to get out there and see if I can replicate. Happy New Year

[@oneandonlyjaybee]

Good stuff Mike. I got a few nice images at the car park of my nature reserve with a setup like this. No need for a hide, I was able to just stand next to my car with my camera on a tripod and just fire away from a few metres away

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Sounds great!

[@strix_pht]

Great informative video as usual from Mike. 10/10, regards from Serbia!

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thanks for watching!

[@rogerhance5883]

Excellent video Mike. I do like videos like this were your showing pictures from your hide and the set up.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

My favourite type to do, but films about equipment get a lot more views.

[@rogerhance5883]

@@MikeLaneFRPS Perhaps I should do more equipment reviews !

[@joanantonim.p.2400]

Thanks Merry Christmas 🎅🏻🎅🏻🎄🎄🎄☃️☃️☃️👑👑👑🎁🎁🎊🎉🍾🍾🕊🕊🕊🕊 (Saludos desde España... 🙋🏻‍♂️👋🏻)

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Same to you.

[@DavidJonesImages]

Great video, thanks for including the video information. I think you have a lot of viewers that are as interested in the video equipment and settings as in your stills information. Best Wishes Dave J

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thanks.

[@matthew2410]

Thanks for yet another great video . Happy Christmas.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Happy holidays!

[@davidosborn3356]

Nice video Mike. A nice insight and some lovely stills, love the shot in the frost. Merry Christmas.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

I'm trying to keep it quiet about Christmas. If my wife finds out I get dragged to church. An annual event.

[@davidosborn3356]

@@MikeLaneFRPS Enjoy and say one for me!😀

[@arpadszabo6170]

Nuthatches are awesome. I use a similar setup for mine in the public park (I got the idea from one of your previous videos). Thankfully they are not shy at all and come to the branch regularly, even if I am standing 3-4 m away. If only they were slower.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Sounds great!

[@CamillaI]

Great tips on Nathatch photography, one of my woodland favourites . Seasons greetings to you Mike 👍

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Mine too!

[@malcolmriley6897]

Very interesting, as always, Mike, with some lovely images. Thanks for all your time and effort over the past year to bring us these superb videos each week. Hope you have a great Christmas, and best wishes for next year.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@bellasvistas3463]

Thanks and Merry CHristmas. Mever seen them freeze like that.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Happy holidays!

[@eljayr4669]

Deja vu. I have already commented on this one. A nice informative video of a very attractive Bird. Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and New Year. See you in the next one.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Reloaded due to the green screen fault in the first.

[@leehanley71]

Nice video Mike, great idea to put a couple of seeds on the branch, a tip I will definitely use. See you on the next one 📸

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Glad it was helpful!

[@cliftonwhittaker260]

I'm fortunate to have a few white-breasted nuthatches at my Hollywood Set on the back porch. I've noticed that they sometimes freeze in place for a while, like you said. My most successful nuthatch attractor has been a wild cherry limb about 3 to 4 inches in diameter and mounted vertically or slightly leaning for composition in the middle of my set. I bored 1/2 inch holes toward the back side of this post and filled them with peanut butter. This attracts to nuthatches better than anything else I've used and keeps them there doing a variety of poses for some time. Unfortunately, squirrels like peanut butter, too, and will take over when they discover it. I also get a variety of woodpeckers. They all like peanut butter and will stay in place often enough to give me a variety of poses. Try it, I think you'll like it, Mike.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thank you Cliff.

[@johnwood4801]

Another superb video Mike. Learn so much from you.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Glad to hear it!

[@klaustomasini]

Dear Mike, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to your family and you. You are doing great vlogs. Thank you!

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Thanks, you too!

[@ValkoBranislav]

Krásne fotografie a filmové zábery...

[@michaelhawkins1173]

Smashing little bird with character hanging upsides down, maybe for the fun of it who knows. With character in mind when and where in the UK is it the best time to see Capercalia birds ? Thank you for your video.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

There is not a best time. They are very scarce and hard to see in Scotland. They start to display in April, but not easy to see.

[@mikebrownhill4662]

Thanks Mike - a great video about one of my favourite birds. I always enjoy watching Nuthatches because they can be bullies and that makes some interesting action shots. I was also very impressed with how the OM gear you use made some nice backgrounds. I know you've set up the scene to optimise the background - but still, for MFT it's impressive. I use Canon gear at the moment, and I have a shoulder injury which means I may have to consider giving up my 600mm f4. That OM set up is very tempting!

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

The idea that MFT cameras do not allow clear backgrounds is overstated. It is rarely a problem.

[@Pedro-nf2rr]

Feliz Navidad

[@remembershooting2064]

You're so generous with your knowledge, thank you for these succinct, detailed insights. Inspiring stuff. Merry Christmas!

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Same to you!

[@MJSPhotographyUK]

Hi Mike, we have two who visit the reserve, think I'll have to put up a branch like that. Thanks for sharing.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Mostly it is waiting for that moment when they freeze.

[@rongiesbers6458]

Are you feeding deer with the apples Mike? Worked well for background.

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

Birds mostly. But deer do come in for the apples.

[@Nnnuuk]

I tried my camera (Panny G85) with the stabilisation turned off while it was on a tripod, and I think that the results look sharper. I know that some say to turn off stabilisation when using a tripod, and others say that it makes no difference. Do you have an opinion on the subject?

[@MikeLaneFRPS]

I never switch it off. Lots of vibration with a long lens on a tripod.

[@Nnnuuk]

@@MikeLaneFRPS Yes, that's true.

[@abritandhisbikeinpoland6802]

Great love it!! I took some typical Nuthatch pictures just before Christmas, and I have some blurred out small branches in the background, on a blurry whitish bluish canvas if you like. But can you or someone please tell what the hell is this obsession I see everywhere of photos of birds on a perch, with absolutely nothing in the background except what appears to me to be nothing but a "Green" screen 😡🥱🥱🤦‍♂ and an over pixelated bird which does actually look like Hollywood CGI or some stuffed animal glued to some studio diorama🥱We all know AI is killing photography, but could we at least try and preserve some kind of natural looking pictures of birds in their "Natural" environment!? 🙏 Mike I am not criticising your pictures , god no, but the industry, Instagram to name but one example is flooded with over saturated pixelated nonsense. You only have to look at Instagram's "Landscape" pictures, I need sunglasses before i open the page! Birds live in nature, so lets see the nature please! Keep up the good work mike 👏