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.
Plans generally scuppered by the constant rain. But on the odd occasion that it wasn’t raining a few from this week.
Shame about the weather Mr Kes but the pics are great especially Mrs K!
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You managed a good select though Mr Kes
Thanks Wendy.
Cheers SnappyMac I’ve been lucky seeing more Mistle Thrush this winter.
Nice capture of the male GSW. Lovely birds.
Very nice BD. The gease are interesting. They both look like Greylag geese but white. What are they?
They seem to show up occasionally. I think I hear them more often than seeing them.
Thanks Wendy. Seems to be a pair hanging around the woods so I presume they are nestling nearby.
Thanks SM. As you know it can be frustrating not being able to photograph everything you see or hear. Missed out on a yellow hammer in the hedge and have heard male chaffinch around the last two days but can’t spot him in the trees. But happy to have got the photos I did get.