Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, garden, loxley valley, mammals, photography on June 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As promised, some more pictures from the FZ18. It’s amazing how well it works on ridiculously high zooms, even handheld, albeit with a loss in quality.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, garden, spring on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
After much recent trudging around in iffy weather for scant few birding year ticks, it was a pleasure to get one this morning while I was gazing out of the window and eating a bacon sandwich. A handsome male blackcap spent several minutes in the garden, and seemed to have a twig in his beak. Hopefully this means there’s some nest [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, digiscoping, garden, photography on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m off sick today with a really nasty cold, which is keeping me indoors on a lovely sunny day. So this morning, I decided to let the birds come to me, and sit and watch the garden for a couple of hours, with the digiscoping kit set up to see what I could snap.
The robins [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, garden, surveys on January 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This morning I did my Big Garden Birdwatch. Quite a small selection of species were present today, and some were missing that are often about, such as coal tit, greenfinch and long-tailed tit, and the garden’s occasional star species, such as bullfinch and great spotted woodpecker, didn’t show up.
This is the full list for the hour:
Great [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged badgers, garden, mammals, sheffield on January 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Readers of my old version of this blog will remember I got very excited last summer by a visiting badger to my garden. I caught a glimpse of it one night as I was turning off the downstairs lights, and we had great views of it almost every night for a good few weeks. We left it some peanuts [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, digiscoping, garden, photography, sheffield on January 6, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve not tried my hand at digiscoping for a good while. My setup is far from ideal, as my light-as-a-feather Mighty Midget II scope is coupled with a surprisingly heavy adaptor, meaning locking on to a target is annoyingly tricky. This morning I persevered and took some shots in the garden.
The song thrush was lurking [...]
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