Bird photos with a wide angle lens

Birds are shy animals, so normally you need very long, bright, and expensive lenses to get some good photos of them.

Not so if you have a camera which can be remote controlled in any way – by trigger, timer, or any other device. My E-M10 and newer Olympus cameras can be remote controlled by your smartphone, using a cost-free ‘app’ from Olympus called O.I Share. So if you have the right camera and a tripod, you can get bird photos even with a wide angle lens, like I just did using my 14mm Panasonic lens:

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These are great tits, or Kohlmeise as we call them in German, or parus major in Latin. Feed them with sun flower seeds, which they like best, or with raisins like Mitchie did here.

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