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Great Tit [Parus Major]
A lovely afternoon brought literally hundreds of wee birdies to my feeders at The Pixies.
This Great Tit waited on a branch for a few seconds, before darting down to get a peanut. Sometimes, they will sit and eat sunflower hearts but normally they just swoop in, take a nut, and fly off, then come back and repeat the procedure. Apparently, they stash their food for later.
At The Pixies
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
(cropped)
the secret of the fox
ancient mystery
somewhere deep in the woods
I know you're hiding
what is your sound?
will we ever know?
will always be a mystery
what do you say?
*I took this awhile ago at Dispersion, but think it may be closed now?
I saw a hooded merganser couple in the creek from a distance. They swam away from me, so I continued with other subjects. I noted that the drake was approaching, and took up a position where I could catch a glimpse of him through the foliage. This was the result - one of the closest encounters I've had with a hooded merganser!
That is how the leading daily here described the typhoon that hit the Philippines early this morning.
Definitely there were damages but we thank the Lord for our survival.
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" I was born to rock the boat
Some may sink but we will float
Grab your coat-let's get out of here,
Your my witness
I'm your mutineer"
On of my favourite Warren Zevon songs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU3e-dSY4v0
I only just made it to witness this sunset as it quickly dipped behind the Cape (Cape Woolamai), leaving golds and reds to light the sky in it's wake.
I am away with work part of this week then off to Singapore with a girlfriend for a week so am mostly off for the next few weeks.
I'm sorry I will miss your images during that time.
Our first snow of the winter, but more slush and wet than anything else. My enthusiasm waned quickly.
HFF!
To test out the bounce flash settings I was using my brother-in-law was kind enough to pause for the quick portrait.
Captured while indoors at a wedding reception venue.
a quick post
will return later but if I don't get to you, do know that I wish I could......get to everyone.
Texture: Nesstor
flower: wild at the cottage
Bug: hoverfly I think
This is a quick snapshot of Fynn sitting on the sundeck of Cleo's cat house on the porch. As the cat house doesn't have a heating, Cleo won't use it any time soon. The sundeck offers a nice view over the neighbouring gardens which Fynn often enjoys.
Fynn is doing okay although it has been quite difficult to feed him over the weekend as eating is painful for him. The vet thinks that it's because of his cat flu related gingivitis and tongue ulcers but I think that there is another problem. We have a vet appointment anyway on Monday morning and I will ask the vet to consider an x-ray to see if there is a problem with his teeth.
This European Goldfinch female appeared suddenly in front of me when I continued my walk outside Karkarook Park behind some industrial storage sheds. She sat only some 3-4 meters away and I almost panicked, desperately trying to focus with my 500mm lens. She allowed just two quick shots and disappeared.
I decided to get back in the Flickr mode by choosing an easy subject.....no puzzling id'd juvie hawk, seasonally plumed shorebird or confusing warbler to research. Here at our feeder the easily recognizable Blue Jays quietly (surprising) sneak in and out of the feeder, grabbing a seed and leaving very quickly. I love to see their unique geometric pattern but never shoot them as I look for that rarity. This one was such a poser I couldn't resist! (Lots of work to do getting trip pics processed and catching up with all your photos since I've been away. I'll see and appreciate them all but leave comments on the recents!)
Pretty much says what I did here, with the rain coming down and another car coming along the narrow road, I jumped out camera in had and did a twelve shot pano beside Cummock water Cumbria .
Quick story about Iguana. Many moons ago I accompanied my son and a few of his 7th grade classmates to Guyana. We were in the Amazon forest being cared for by a very nice woman and a woodsman who would lead us to find snakes and other critters in the forest. The woman asked me if I would like Iguana for dinner and I said “Sure, I’ll try it.” She brought some to the camp, which had no electricity or refrigeration of any type. The Iguana were on the ground with their legs were tied behind their back. I asked our caretaker if the meat would spoil if it wasn’t cooked that day. She laughed and informed me that they Iguana were very much alive and would keep for days. The kids heard that and next thing I knew the Iguana were set free. I can honestly say I was not disappointed.
With that diversion aside, this guy was changing positions in the snag at Green Cay and gave me this interesting pose in the strong morning light. (Green Iguana with a most creative scientific name: Iguana iguana) (Sony a1, 400mm, f/2.8, 1/1600 second, ISO 640)
A quick glimpse of a coyote running through the open fields before quickly disappearing into the forest.
I popped down Loch Eilt to a location where I could look across at the Fort William to Mallaig line. Quickly I saw I hadn't got the right day. I need the waters to be flat calm to get a nice reflection. And some nice light on the hills would help. The train, the Jacobite, was only slightly late but when it came, horror of horrors it was an old diesel relic pulling the train, and not a famous Black Five.........todays' train, no steam or smolke, definitely couldn't be called the Hogwart's Express. I tried imagining how many passengers would be disappointed the steam engine had been replaced with a diesel: it's just not the same.
So I had decided on a two frame stitched pano shot but that went wrong too! I seem to have cut off the end of the train in 'merging' the images. So with a steam train, streaming smoke and steam against the mountains, reflected on still waters it might have looked something, but...not today! At least I don't have to travel far for another try, but I can't predict what the conditions are like on the other side of the mountains from home!
TrailerDog, always way ahead of me, wants me
catch up with him. I try to go, but when soft sand
sinks me to my knees I have to find firm ground !
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On my recce for compositions for sunsets, arriving on the first top the Beacon I get caught in a shower. I wander off path to the cairn as the shower passes over and glance over my shoulder, quick a rainbow. Sack off, camera out, change to wide angle, check the settings, try to find a composition, oh and dial in the polariser, nothing to it.
Just a quick look at Norway.....we have had snow three days in a row now, it doesn't lie for long but it certainly is icy cold here :-(
Come on spring!
A quick last minute trip to Sheffield thinking the rain had stopped quickly came to an end...
Selective colour faffery and motion at a tram stop in Sheffield city centre.
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If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy. Thich Nhat Hanh