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They so kindly posed in the sun for me for a few minutes, I can but post their photo here.

Prospect Park, Reading, UK

Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800mm lens, ISO800, 1/1250s, F9

I promise the camera was the right way up when I took this.

... Back to having Black Heads! Which presumably means breeding season has started, for all there are still flocks of them in Prospect Park, Reading, UK.

Canon R5 MkII RF200-800mm lens.

Prospect Park, Reading, UK

Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800mm, ISO4000, 1/1250s

Distinctly better quality than my previous post of this breed, because the sun was actually shining! I also found it interesting to see the orange tinge to the crest, which I understand to indicate the male bird - though for a moment I was wondering if I'd actually seen a Firecrest instead.

And then there's this one, where the photo quality is poor, but the interpreted expression amuses me no end:

Blue Tit looking cute as they often do, Prospect Park, Reading, UK

Canon R5 MkII RF200-800mm

Snoozing and fluffed up, it somehow appeals to me.

Prospect Park, Reading, UK Canon R5 MkII RF200-800mm

Jay, Reading, UK squawking about I know nt what (I don't think jays have a "song")

Canon R5 MkII RF800mm

Or maybe two as, though its not as sharp, I like the whole "Looking down on the mudwalker" vibe. Usual locations and camera :)

For those who can count.

Prospect Park, Reading UK

These were all of the same bird over a period of about four minutes, hopping and flapping around like a mad thing.

All undercover on not the brightest of days, resulting in 1/800s at ISO12800, so these thumbnails are really about as good as the "full" (heavily cropped) photos.

Redwing in Prospect Park, Reading, UK

Canon R5 Mk II, RF200-800mm

Or "One of those days when the photo you took is far better than you expected"

After advising u/SurpriZe@lemm.ee not to point cameras at the sun, today I ignored my own advice. My excuse: the sun was barely showing through the cloud, was simply not bright at all, and I wondered if the disk might have an interesting look, set against out of focus branches.

When I got it home to look at I wondered about the spots on the sun, first thinking "my camera's dirty" before realising after a few moments: a remarkably good shot of sun spots for a hand held camera. The broader shading is strands of cloud.

I even had to check the configuration of spots was right:

From https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/sunspot-regions.html

Pure luck the cloud was just the right level of thickness, but amusing! Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800mm lens did help a lot of course :)