Was back down Yesterday, Monday, for a last try at an "Insect Day", spent a good few hours in the sunshine chasing dragons, so many about I never actually left the RSPB area to visit the main reserve. Have 450+ images to sort through and will post some to the Flickr group as soon as I can.
One "new" Feature I came across was a new bird feeder between Perry Lane and the Education area, close to the centre ( the area with the large concrete seats and pond dipping platform). The large multi-port seed feeder was attracting a lot of common birds, but the interesting thing is that a lot of traffic was originating from both sides of Perry Lane. Looks like this feeder, If maintained :) ), could be worthwhile watching as the Autumn & Winter progresses.
Best regardsNigel
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Good day for Dragons today as well and best shot I got was this one.
Well done on getting a flight shot of a dragonfly and with spot on focus too. I took one of the same type of dragonfly but is was resting. I've tried tracking butterflies in my viewfinder but with no luck. I shall persevere.
Colin, if I had been using old film it may have cost me hundreds of pounds in processing costs before I got it right. :) I didn't get many resting either. Nice shot.
Cannot post any images at the moment as I have a fault with my Fibre Broadband, am limping along on a 3G signal from my phone :-(
Nigel, I have had a problem best part of today but seems to have rectified in last 10 minutes (hopefully). My main problem I couldn't access googlemail.
MIne was I had no upload speed, was getting about 0.2Mb/s rather than my normal 9.7Mb/s
Looks like EE / BT have sorted the server fault they blamed as it's getting better now
Ah that explains it, I'm with EE which I must admit over lots of years have had no problem with.
I've found EE to be really good, with them for years for Mobile phone, Fibre is normally faultless, cannot say the same for BT openreach who manage the backbone services, but EE staff deal with them mostly
Great shots guys! Good to see an update. it seems that birds are around at the moment but keeping their heads down feeding. Last year there were big flocks of Beardies doing the rounds in September - maybe later? It's been such a different year this year because the juves were around at the beginning of July this year and last year it wasn't until the end; Common Blue were all over the Orchid Field mid-August, 2013 - saw comparatively few this year. guess it's down to the weather patterns. Oh and I haven't seen one Painted Lady!
We were very lucky to get some excellent views of Bearded tits last Saturday. It was drizzly at 9:30 so I left my camera in the car. when we got to the bridge at 10:30 the clouds were lifting and it was perfectly still with loads of insects around after the wet. We heard bearded tits from the side of the bridge and waited. They called and called to each other before coming out onto through the fence and onto the matting. There were 4 males and 3 females. For 30 mins we watched them on the fence and blue rope, back on the mat. We couldn't see what they were getting from the matting, maybe drinking? Not one other person came along in all that time so we had glorious undisturbed views but no pictures. I'm not complaining; we were really lucky with conditions.