Posted in Uncategorized, tagged loxley valley, my patch, photography, sheffield on June 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A nasty, drizzly day, and certainly not the sort you want when you have a new camera to try out!
I did manage some time without showers this morning, though, and I’m glad I got out, because I finally after 13 months of beating the same routes, got my first patch kingfisher! It was darting down the river [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bees, flowers, insects, loxley valley, macro, photography, plants on June 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A few shots taken with the macro setting of the FZ18 - if any of my flower identifications are wrong please let me know!
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 bees, insects, photography on June 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Well the new camera’s arrived, and I’m very pleased with it. I had a bit of a walk round with it last night, but haven’t had time to sort all the photos out. Here’s one to be going on with.
I’ll post more photos and more details soon.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birds, damflask, loxley valley, my patch, photography, sheffield, surveys on June 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On Saturday I got up early and spent the whole morning finishing, or nearly finishing, my two surveys. Firstly I did my late visit for the BTO Breeding Bird Survey. The first thing I found as I got off the bus at Damflask were three great spotted woodpeckers, all in the same tree, which boded [...]
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, 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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