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 photos, particularly the conducting Egret
Thank you
Thank you Kevin the grey wagtail photos were taken with settings for birds in flight therefore they were very dark so with a bit of editing at least we got an image. We have a lot of fields where we live and on my walks the wildlife I have seen is brilliant, I was walking down one of the paths the same day as I took these photos and a deer passed in front of me and straight through a gap in the hedgerow, I never got a photo of it the speed that it went across the fields was unbelievable, maybe next time ?
Super shots of the Egret ILR, particularly the first one - excellent timing ...
Many thanks BD I was lucky to get the first photo some walkers walked passed nearby and it flew away and as it was landing I took the photo as it landed.
All a bit quiet on the bird front recently in the local valley, the weather definitely not helping.
I do like grey wagtails ILR, I don't see them very often. Good to catch the egret with it's wings open.
Nice close up photo's Bob
Thanks Snappy it is a bird I don’t see often but when I do it is always nice to see