Kicking off this year's odds and sods with Starlings in a rainbow on that extreme rarity: sunshine.
It was early morning, with the sun barely cresting the tree line. We were able to get out for our morning walk as it wasn't raining. This photo is my trusty Canon 80D and Sigma 18-300mm lens zoomed in at 300mm.
Pulling back a bit.
And finally all the way back.
Oh, 2024 got off to a good start with this.
So far my cat, perhaps two neighbouring cats visiting our garden, a local fox and Tawny owl, and this trap have accounted for at least five of the beasties. Sightings of rats in our garden are getting rarer, so I think I'm winning. Two rather timid and wary rats, that I know of, are proving more elusive to catch. I've resorted to buying a lethal trap. The trap was triggered, yesterday, but no rat, sadly. Though a mouse might have triggered it, and was small enough to be within the kill bar.
90% luck, 5% field craft, 5% camera skills.
Lovely the blue tit is an absolute crackerjack
Thank you Kevin. I think Blue Tits colours are looking particularly vibrant at the moment.
All lovely pics BD but was good to see your ladybird!
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Good selection BD, I like the Ladybird
A couple of Pied Wagtails from the Duxford IWM today:
Thanks Snappy ...
Thanks Snappy. Like those wagtails.
I really don't understand this new interface. I set the width of my inserted images to either 640 or 840 pixels. And sure enough, when I am editing my posts I see images at either 640 or 840 pixels. However, when I submit my post, this interface ignores my settings, and displays dirty great big images at a size it decides upon. Hmmm, investigation is called for.
Every year, about now, we get Chaffinches visiting our garden. One in particular, flappity flaps about our garden, attempts to get into my bird feeder, but never quite does. Then the Chaffinches disappear. I'm not sure why finches do not appear to like my bird feeder. I have a quite exquisite menu, with all the seeds loved by song birds. Perhaps all the tits, robins and Dunnocks lower the tone of the place. I take every advantage to photograph Chaffinches before they disappear for the summer.
Photographed through manky double-glazed back door, with my R7.
Hi Angus, where I used to live we had chaffies, and they much preferred feeding on the spillages from the ground than using the feeders. Nice shots :o)
Nice to see Angus , it's been a long time since we had one in the garden