I quite enjoy doing light post-processing on my photos, but yes, it involves setting time aside for it, and the discipline not to spend more time on a photo than it is worth.

That’s a very nice phone camera! That, or I’ve an even poorer phone camera than I thought (on the grounds of having a full-body camera). You can probably find free apps for your phone that do simple RAW edits, but I can’t offer any advice. Dedicated cameras tend to come with software of varying quality (Canon is quite good!).

Nice capture of the wing feathers. Have you tried playing with your editor packages’s histogram tool (especially if you have a RAW format image) to see if you can recover more of the colour of the bird? This scenario of dark bird against bright sky always sees me tweaking things, often resulting in over-exposing the sky, which I don’t care about, to see more colour in the shadows of the bird (it’s what I was doing in my recently posted “Kite Seeking Kompany”).

Amusing effect, suiting the subject. If you had the patience, some of the yellow on the building to the left presumably ought to be possible to mask out from having any colour.

Oh, and in case you just want a classic shot of this clown of a male bird:

I know what you mean, but yew is more church graveyard than crown of thorns and/or pagan rituals!

Yet another good scratch from, today’s walk

Patience and luck :)

Thanks, though here it’s more “taking what I get” than deliberately setting up a cool angle!

If it didn’t face down, you’d be looking at a tree creeper :)

Oh they are indeed. Previous years I’ve seen them tucking into large thistle heads (so about head height) in sunshine which is an utter delight - alas, this years weather or something has denied me of that pleasure. The following is from 2022:

Yes indeed they were, but the nearest I had to an “ID” shot from that group was:

But that really lacks interest!

Nice shot, and interesting to see a Jackdaw with such odd feathers (given they “ought” to be black and a bit of a darker gray around the head). Also, was this taken inside a food court or similar?

Because you presumably post here to share something you think others might like/be informed/be enlightened by and this doesn’t appear to be doing that at the moment. However, if not posting for that reason, I suppose I can go hunting for the Block User option.

While I share the question “Why?” I might hazard a guess that there’s almost an echo of the colours of the Sainsbury’s sign with the colours of the tarmac and its white and yellow lines, or even of the pale blue car and the sky - I could almost imagine a “I like it but I don’t know why” mood.

But then, same poster as “11 miles to the city” two days ago.

Ummm … not sure of your goal with this photo and title. Perhaps viewing the bollards as an 11 in their own right, but even then I don’t get “to the city”.

Do you mean the nuthatch? If so, I’ve observed that they favour certain trees, and with patience you will possibly get lucky. I don’t have that level of patience - one day, perhaps! But even then, as you say, to get the leaves framing the sky round the bird…

Yes, the first one is a sad statement, rather than technically great art.

Photos of reflections can do wonderful things, as here!

First time I’ve had my camera with me when seeing them hover - I’m not complaining about the angle :)