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The reeds surrounding the dam are home to a number of \u00a0Lesser Swamp Warblers (previously known as Cape Reed Warblers) and their song is a lovely backing track to an early morning search for images. As the flit and forage deep with the reeds it is not often that they present an opportunity for a good picture. This one came brief out to the edge and fed on clusters of tiny insects and I especially liked this image showing the orange colour inside the beak.<\/p>\n

A pair of White-throated Swallows was always in attendance at the one jetty and after a while we realised that they were building a nest beneath the jetty. This image is a composite of 2 shots as with them sitting together on the twig it was impossible to get them in a decent pose and in focus together so I layered and masked 2 images with each of them in the best pose and sharp in the frame. The same technique that I illustrated in the focus stacking for bird photography post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lesser Swamp Warbler (Cape Reed Warbler) feeding on tiny insects<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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White-throated Swallow pair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Growing up in South Africa we had a plethora of LBJs to sort through\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Bird Photography"","block_context":{"text":"Bird Photography","link":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/category\/bird-photography"},"img":{"alt_text":"Eurasion Skylark in singing pose","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Skylark-20231110-NZ9_6021-NEF_DxO-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Skylark-20231110-NZ9_6021-NEF_DxO-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Skylark-20231110-NZ9_6021-NEF_DxO-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Skylark-20231110-NZ9_6021-NEF_DxO-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}