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
Lovely phot Hazel. Monochrome is so often underrated
Michael B said:Monochrome is so often underrated
Thanks Mike, I wonder if we should have a new thread for monochrome photos, as you say, often underrated and I think b & w give a different feel to a photo where often more detail is seen when you are not seeing distracting background colours. I guess we all have a few photos from our archives that would make for interesting b & w conversions. Having said that, I've just commented on another post that we have too many separate threads hitting the forum. lol. Maybe we'll leave it for another time when forum is less busy !
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Regards, Hazel
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Michael B said: Monochrome is so often underrated
You're welcome.
It's a nice idea, but I doubt it would receive much activity, and I too think it wise not to add another thread.
I tend to share monochrome in either a visit post or Odds & Sods.
Not to everyone's liking, but one of natures many hoovers on the prowl.
and the morning after......
One of the many buzzard fly pasts we have here, or should that be glide past.....
A few from this mornings walk out of the city and up on to the local moors in the Peaks. I think the bird is a female stonechat but not sure.
Headed to the coast today and to Parkgate on the Wirral; a male Kestrel appeared as soon as we parked up and he dived into the salt marsh and grabbed its lunch; not sure what he caught but looked a bit bigger than a vole or bird, Only got distant pics which I hard cropped but it was nice to see the Kestrel and also a Common Whitethroat which was singing and flitting back and forth from the grassy salt marsh to a tree by the car park.
Diving down into the grassy marsh when it spotted the prey
Common Whitethroat
and what looks like a juvenile Stonechat
and a carrion crow checking the picnic table in the hope of picking up a few crumbs. !!
Lot to learn