Alners Gorse is one of the two places I go for butterflies regularly. 11th June was forecast nice early, grey by mid morning and wet by lunchtime, so I decided on a speculative foray at about 7.30. It had rained overnight, and being that early the sun hadn't managed to dry the grass, so within about 20 yards of the gate, my feet were wet (which reminded me to rewaterproof my boots!!) First thing I heard was a Chiffchaff
Next sighting, flyyyyyyy
Next up . itsy bitsy field moth (one of 39 possibilities I think Wendy said last year!)
Young Blue Tit?
Too many mouths to feed!
There were several of these flies around, and liking a challenge and thinking of Angus's trials and tribulations I decided to try snapping some, at various shutter speeds (I was using the 180-600 f5.6-6.3 nikon z lens), and I have to say I was impressed with the way the tracking stayed with the beastie, but the user was appalling at tracking them as they flew out of frame!! (These first few are just made smaller to fit the 5mb limit, there's a couple later cropped)
Note the background getting darker as the shutter speed increased
The first butterfly was a Meadow Brown
A hoverfly of some description (probably a Skinny-Waisted-Yellow-Leg)
A different Meadow Brown... I managed to ninja stealth mode round it, but then couldn't get a shot without an infernal blade of grass in the way!
Cropped flies
The first damselfly, was a Banded Demoiselle
A lovely white moth, but not a lovely photo, I'm afraid... and no ID either!!
A slightly better pic
Moving on into the field where the grazing ponies live, in the barn...
Up a tree opposite, I'm not sure what, but it was either hungry or feeding someone else!
It then proceeded to make its way along the branch, with it's beak still loaded, picking at and under the bark
The Great Tit was looking busy
I soon spotted why!
A Blackcap made it known it wasn't happy with me
The other butterfly I saw was a Large (I'm pretty sure) Skipper
After more deft ninja stealthing...
And finally, a White Legged Damsel
And then I tootled home, and the weather forecast proved correct!!
Stay Safe All
Thanks Mrs Kes. Saw several people yesterday bemoaning that very fact. No frits about, and few of everything else
Thanks Mike, I varied shutter speed from 1/500 to 1/5000 I think. I'll have a look at the ones I actually posted after work. I won't bother with the 300 blurry ones lol
PimperneBloke said:Thanks Mike, I varied shutter speed from 1/500 to 1/5000 I think. I'll have a look at the ones I actually posted after work. I won't bother with the 300 blurry ones lol
You're welcome.
I'd lay odds on some of the blurred ones would look good in the bad pics thread.
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
That, and the ones where the little beggars moved out of frame and it's just various shades of green lol
Mike B said:I wonder what shutter speed
1/1000, 1/2500 and 1/5000, and the cropped ones were both 1/4000, all at 600mm. Auto ISO 900 on 1st, 8000 on next two, and both cropped ones were 1400.