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CLOSING GAMBIAN IMAGE, requested pied kingfisher.......
If I dont return to posting U.K birds soon, will be showing courtship displaying, while everybody else are showing baby birds. Have been going out, but it is a struggle after the Gambian beauties, but cant live for two weeks photography a year.
Thank you for some extra special comments yesterday, your like a extended family to me.
Love to you all Tomx.
GAMBIA TOUR 2018.
FORAGES by wading slowly in the shallows, cooperatively scything with slightly opened mandibles through the water. Sexes very similar,favours tidal inlets and creeks, spent many hours watching six of these, as they are not normally. in the area I visit.
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THANK YOU for your visit and kind comments, it is very encouraging indeed. God bless you all, your like my extended family................Tomx
Bearded Tits are found in reed beds throughout the temperate regions of Europe, Asia and North Africa. For this reason they are also called Reed Buntings. It is not a tit as such, but belongs to a unique group of its own. The way they move about reeds beds, however, in small groups, they are more like long-tailed tits. They feed on small reed aphids and small insect, but come autumn and winter they switch to reed seeds. This one is the male of the species. It has more of a moustache than a beard, a feature lacking in females.
When shooting into the light, photographers often want that clean, crisp sunstar with minimal flare. The choice of lens is critical in that regard. Some lenses just don't produce good sunstars or have horrible flare control. In the latest Images in Focus episode, Juan Pons and I discuss why some lenses are better suited for sunstars while others produce better bokeh. We talk about a wide range of topics to help you in selecting the right lens for your shooting! This is a 3-part series and we just released part 3 today. Check out the links below and subscribe!
I took this shot with my Sony 12-24mm f/2.8 lens @14mm. This lens is one of the best all-around landscape lenses I've found, with exceptional sharpness, sunstar quality, flare control, and optical quality.
Lens Selection Part 1: youtu.be/Z7hXa3rkM-Y
Lens Selection Part 2: youtu.be/0wN6Hxh65rY
Lens Selection Part 3: youtu.be/NljP0Y4siWA
Good Sunday morning everyone, and hope that all is well with everyone and would like to report a great day yesterday as you will see starting tomorrow.
Here I waited a pretty long time for a down stroke pose of which I finally was able to get.
These birds use the Thermals to glide and to soar and flap their wings as little as possible and to conserve all there strength, anyway thank you all for stopping by and have a wonderful Sunday, and new week ahead.
A DISTINCTIVE WADER, looks black and white at a distance, and has a spiky crest, its good to see the juveniles doing well, This one seen at Elmley Marshes, NR Sheppy Kent.
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THANK YOU for your visit and kind comments, your like family to me, so be safe, God bless..... .....................Tomx
SPURS CLEARLY SHOWING in this flight capture, and is very territorial, noisy and irritable, if you go near it will take to the air, and fly at speed directly at you, pulling out only at the last second, screeching. did-he-DO-it.
(length 28 Cm ) Please view large!
Good to see you visit, any comments are very appropriated indeed. ...Tomx
“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.” ~ T.H. White
A very good morning to everyone and to my Jewish friends a Very Happy and very Healthy New Year, and may it be full of Goodness and Joy and with absolutely no Heartache and that everyone stays well.
Her we have an early morning catch for this Osprey.
It was a dark and stormy night...no, wait -- that story is for another day.
It was a Saturday. Outside it was cold and snowy and icy and whatnot. I decided, on a whim, to clean my eyeglasses. Then I began to feel somewhat silly for no good reason, which was fun. So I got my camera and decided to have a bit of play-time -- very much against my nature, but what do you want for only 5 quid? :-P
Happy Chinese New Year! :D