It's that time again for your best three photos. Looking forwards to seeing them.
Party time tomorrow so I am starting this thread tonight :)
The best of May thread is Here for 2018
My three.
Jim
My Pictures
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A lovely variety of shots this month, lots of different species.
My three favourites are:
Red Squirrel
Herring Gull (2cy)
Mute Swan family
My bird photos HERE
Very nice Tony.
Very nice Martin, love the curlew picture.
Nice catch with the Piecatcher Nige.
Very nice captures Paul A, love the Mute Swan family picture.
Once again, some hard choices.....
But it has to be the cheeky grey squirrel....
And the juvenile goldfinch taking a bath on our pond fountain....
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
Green Woodpecker, two gardens down from mine. Normally quiet and secretive, two of them flew around our gardens for some minutes either upset at each other or my cat. This one settled on the branch for a couple of minutes! Uncropped image first.
Now with woodpecker cropped out.
Southern Hawker near Moor Green Lakes reserve car park. I've renamed this as per Mike B's suggestion. I am now in the domain of the uber experts. Actually, I even managed to get the name wrong first time. I should have written Golden ringed Dragonfly, not yellow ringed. DOH. Still pleased I have a Hawker!
Nightjars, RSPB Warburg. I have a couple of other photos with two Nightjars in them. They might have better background lighting, but the Nightjars were gliding and so could have been anything. These are sort of recognisable as Nightjars. Taken last night (3rd July) when it was 10:15 pm and quite dark.
I'm still getting used to my new camera, a Canon EOS 800d which I got last Thursday and used to take these photos. Somewhat hugely better than my ancient Canon EOS 350 which it replaced.
Angus
90% luck, 5% field craft, 5% camera skills.
@Angus, good to see a juvenile Green Woodpecker. Perhaps it was having a dispute with a sibling or maybe its parent was trying to drive it away.
BTW I think your dragonfly is a Southern Hawker.
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Tony
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Unknown said: I'm still getting used to my new camera, a Canon EOS 800d which I got last Thursday and used to take these photos. Somewhat hugely better than my ancient Canon EOS 350 which it replaced. Angus
great selection of photo's, here's my offering.
Common Blue
Whitethroat
Swift
cheers Terry
my photo's here