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Odds & Sods 2023

Mike B
03/01/2023 07:45

After yet another successful year on the Odds & Sods thread, initially started I think by Hazy, it might be wise to kickstart the 2023 thread off.

Thank you to those who have contributed to last years thread, and there has been very interesting odds and sods in "Odds & Sods 2022" that aren't enough to place into a dedicated thread, which you can look back on the following link:

https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/278729/odds-sods-2022/1417300?pifragment-4285=76#pifragment-4285=1

What better for me, and as yet, I've not ventured far, ewe know what I mean, with this lassie on Baddesley Clinton estate yesterday....

Mike

Flickr: Peak Rambler

  • 06/04/2023 18:47 in reply to Bob S
    Lovely pictures Bob..... nice to get the chance to photograph him!! Well done Blush
  • 06/04/2023 19:24 in reply to i love robins

    Ah! I see, Kilnsea. I have never been there. On the photo with the Goldfinches it says Kilnsey, so I thought it might be the one near Skipton, just down the road from Cracoe - 'Calendar Girls' country. I have only been over that way once to Whitby for 3 days - it was beautiful, but most places are when it is gloriously sunny ... Sunglasses

  • 06/04/2023 20:42 in reply to Billysdad
    It was my first time there BD but it won’t be the last that’s for sure. It’s true most places look nicer when it’s sunny.
  • 10/04/2023 08:32

    Oh well, back to wet miserable weather again. I actually remembered to take camera and small lens with me on our regular morning walk - weather permitting. Saturday was a little nippy, but bright.

    This brightly coloured fella, sat in a tree on a residential street, allowed to get reasonably close i.e. within 10m. Still small, with a 300mm lens.

    Cropping out gives a very pleasant image.

    Another cropped image

    At tail end of walk, I spotted a large dot in a tree a long way off. Was it a Wood Pigeon, Red Kite, Carrion crow, Raven...? With lens fully out at 300mm, there is more of a clue.

    A Buzzard, basking in the morning sun and intent on something beneath it.

    90% luck, 5% field craft, 5% camera skills.

  • 10/04/2023 08:43 in reply to Angus M
    Well captured Angus, always nice to see a goldfinch not forgetting the Buzzard
  • 10/04/2023 10:18 in reply to DB_Fife

    Super shot of the Greenfinch DB, and lucky to get one on your feeder. I only ever see them at a distance. Well captured ... Thumbsup

  • 10/04/2023 10:24 in reply to Angus M

    Great shots of the Goldfinches Angus. They always remind me of young children - rushing around in small groups, always looking busy. I like how you say you had a small lens on - 300mm, that's my longest ... Laughing

  • 10/04/2023 16:48 in reply to Angus M
    Love the Goldfinch Angus, beautifully captured!! The Buzzard does look preoccupied doesn't it ;-) Still a good picture, well caught! Blush
  • 11/04/2023 13:10

    Thanks all.

    Ah yes, my 300mm lens (secondhand Sigma 18-300mm) is what I take when I don't want to lug 'The Beast' around. It give me a nice range from wide angle to a reasonable zoom. I hauled it up and down Mt Snowden last year.

    This morning's stomp around Moor Green Lakes and nascent Longwater Road nature reserves (a gentle 2 miler) required 'The Beast' i.e. Sigma 150-600mm contemporary. It does enable me to get this - though the bird was kind enough to land on a branch quite closes to me on the Blackwater footpath.

    Edited post [After consulting the RSPB pocket guide to British Birds, 2nd edition, the Memsahib and I have decided it might be a Cetti's Warbler. I just about recognise it a a warbler; my bird recognition skills being terribly wobbly.]

    Thanks to IsaRobbo for identifying this as a Chiffchaff. Though in my defense, your honour, the piccie in the RSPB book gives this bird quite a greenish hue. I guess one give away that is it a Chiffchaff are its dark legs.  Yer live and learn.

    First, to give scale, an uncropped photo.

    Cropping out

    And another

    It flew off.

    The opinion of the jury as to what this beastie is?

    90% luck, 5% field craft, 5% camera skills.