It's probably an ideal time to start the 2022 Odds & Sods thread off, with some squabbling starlings....
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This pair of starlings were having a right old go at each other, whilst another nipped in to the coconut shell for a food
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
Bumble bee photobomb. What triggered trail cam is Wood pigeon in background.
90% luck, 5% field craft, 5% camera skills.
From Sisters' field: Roe deer stag, sporting the latest in headwear. It's what they do.
I think that the fluttering thing fluttering across this video is a bat. I don't think it is a moth. What say you?
Daytime temperatures have been spring like this week. Admittedly, nighttime temperatures can be freezing, but nothing to deter hungry bats.
What triggered my trail cam, was a Roe deer, whose flank you get a fleeting glimpse of in the bottom left hand of the video.
Some from the garden.
Cyril was posing nicely in the pre-sunrise light yesterday morning. I think he was trying to perfect the alignment of the bricks, and pushed it a little too far back....
And these wee guys haven't had much of a look-in this year, though they have been very active, the light hasn't favoured half decent photos. Both photos were taken using a circular polariser to reduce surface glare.
A couple of quick photos taken this morning from the balcony as we had a common buzzard perched in the weeping spruce tree and also have a nesting moorhen on the water beneath us. Only quick pics taken with the DSLR camera but I won't be taking any photos now until I've completed eye surgery in May ! This time it's me booked in for multi-focus lens replacement on both eyes and not the 5Dmkiii. !! It's really cheaper to buy a new lens for the camera at almost £8,000. LOL.
Seriously though, I won't be on here much for the next couple of months with two operations coming up shortly including the eye surgery when I will have to rest the eyes for a week afterwards - no photos, binoculars, reading, tv, computer etc, I will be having both eyes done on the same day (4th May) so come out of the eye hospital virtually blind with eye shields !! Anyone got a white stick or Labrador I can borrow ? lol.
I digress with the surgery update so here are the last photos for a while ................
bit blurry but I had to rely on autofocus to do the job as I can't see or carry out any adjustments
and shortly to be momma moorhen ......
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Regards, Hazel
Still good photos Hazel.
If I don't hear from you before, fingers crossed and wishing you all the best for the ops.
Digressing, I miss the old split prism screens, that enable good manual focusing....
That's progress for you, and you'll kick that in touch, no problem.
Lot to learn
More hoggie activity caught on the trailcams
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peak-rambler/51967824680/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peak-rambler/51967265706/
And a magpie enjoying a splash about in the newly installed bird bath (top left of the frame), well, fairly new, its been there about ten days now....
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peak-rambler/51967823575/