Staying (very) close to home for wildlife photography + dealing with winter blues

I have an evergreen hedge that runs along the length of my back garden, and it is home to a healthy population of house sparrows. They wait eagerly at the top of the hedge as I put out the bird seed, and when their chicks leave the nest, I am delighted to watch the young bird being fed by the adults from my kitchen window. On a day last month when I didn’t plan to venture out anywhere, I decided to take my camera out in the garden to try and get some portrait shots of the sparrows, and to be honest with you, I really enjoyed photographing them! Because the sparrows were already used to my presence in the garden (whether I’m tending to the vegetable patch or topping up the bird feeder) I found myself getting relatively close to them without the need to use my pop-up hide. I used the evergreen hedge and trees in the background as a staple colour in the images. For these being one of the more unassuming bird species in the UK and Europe, they were certainly obliging! <a href="https://pinfoldphotographic.medium.com/staying-very-close-to-home-for-wildlife-photography-dealing-with-winter-blues-5e0ce8e75dd2">Visit Now</a>