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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

  • 29/08/2023 17:23

    This Sunday and yet more deer from the Peaks, I may need to change my repertoire a bit.... well, maybe after the rut :)  Plus a couple of views and highland cows up there and a fluffed up wren.

  • 29/08/2023 18:22
    Properly fabulous set Bob... Must be about time for some Dippers again!! lol
  • 29/08/2023 18:29 in reply to PimperneBloke

    Ta :) . I do love the dippers on the river Derwent. Hard going at the moment now Spring is over when every animal was out and about and I was tripping over hares. Still... you can't miss a red deer :)

  • 29/08/2023 18:38 in reply to Bob S
    Good selection Bob, I like the light on the deer in the first deer photo :)
  • 29/08/2023 18:39
    Had a bird strike on the lounge window a couple of hours ago.... from the inside! We'd left the patio doors open as we'd been out in the garden, and stopped for lunch. Next thing thud! Was a sparrow, it was a little dazed but seemed undamaged, so popped it on the balcony. Quarter hour later or so it flew off. We wondered why it had come in, and flown upstairs! After it had flown, I looked out the window .... pile of grey feathers on the lawn....guess we know why it flew! I stepped out to investigate the feathers further, and a smallish (presumably) sparrowhawk flew off from in the magnolia tree!
    Only the 2nd one since we've lived here :o)
  • 29/08/2023 18:43 in reply to PimperneBloke
    I also had a pile of feathers in the garden today, one less collard dove.... I didn't see the Sparrowhawk this time.
  • 29/08/2023 19:11
    Oh come on boys you gotta train them to catch and carry off elsewhere..Jock has it down to a fine art now... well after 3 attempts today lol

    (Pardon the Scottish Accent)

  • 30/08/2023 05:48 in reply to SnappyMac
    Thanks, SnappyMac,

    We are lucky in having at least three different families of Nuthatches visiting my feeder. One to the left of our garden, and two to the right. They tend to stay out of each others' way.

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

  • 30/08/2023 06:00 in reply to Billysdad
    Yep, R7.

    Getting the measure of the beast. One trick I've learnt is to fully depress shutter button the instant the R7 gets a subject into focus. Otherwise the complex software (especially auto focus) goes off and hunts. It is so sensitive that moving camera half a micron causes it to re-focus, causing a blurred image, before AI tracking kicks in again to focus on subject.

    Another trick is this... I often concentrate so hard on getting a subject in focus, I forget to get it in the centre of frame. What I sometimes do with the R7 is to get AI tracking to lock on to a subject, then use AI tracking to keep the subject in focus as I move camera around to move the subject in the centre of frame.

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

  • 31/08/2023 08:01

    A mixed bag from a lackluster day as the breeding season ends, and many birds have migrated in some manner.

    A shy Roe doe.

     

    A Roe buck, initially coy.

    Either sticks his tongue out at me or shows off saying, 'I bet you can't lick your nose.'

    Then goes all shy again.

    A long contemplative stare into the water.

    There is a Green Sandpiper in this photo. Amazing tech in countryside, these days, with signs.

    The beastie flew off. Both birds are on a section of Manor farm which had been restored two months ago.

    This Green Sandpiper was in front of Colebrook lake (north) hide/viewing screens. I'm not sure what spooked it, but it took off and flew west to Manor farm restoration.

    I've been assured that this is a White throat.

    All taken with my R7, on a cloudy day.

    Photos look better from my R7 now that I have the EV to 0. No idea how it got set a notch down; which made photos darker.

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