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Popped out for an hour or two on Sunday and went on a little expedition to find some new ground/wildlife, stumbled across this pond which had a few decent sized Dragonfly's whizzing around, managed to catch this Emperor hovering whilst ovipositing, 'twas quite a distance away so tis a very heavy crop! ò¿ò
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Managed to capture, through the reeds, this Juvenile Deer feeding. Always a delight to see these shy deer.
North Norfolk
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Managed to get my other half down to Cornwall for a few days, staying in Talland Bay. Unusually for me taking photo's wasn't really important, I just enjoyed some nice walks and paddles. Didn't venture very far, just Polperro and Looe along the coastal path.
When I finally managed to return to flickr I saw some wonderful images of this sim, so thank you to Annie Klavinham, Ziki Questi and others for sharing your images and the location.
I spent a long time exploring, and each step there was something new - the way the light changed, a detail, an angle - to delight the eye.
This is somewhere that will repay repeated visits.
Texture by lenabem-anna
I know I take many moon shots, one would think what's so interesting about it? I find that although it's the same night after night, it manages to have different 'faces' based on the phase, air clarity, light pollution, etc. This one seemed to have a strange angle of the shaded portion that made it stand out to me.
Managed to fit a trip to one of the local spots alongside the weekend commitments...nothing too exciting but it was nice to get the camera out :)
When I've spent a couple of hours paddling on Loch Eck on a hot day there's nothing nicer than beaching the kayak and heading up to the Whistlefield Inn for a cold pint of cider whilst enjoying the view.
www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a...
Key information
Noisy and gregarious, these cheerful exploiters of man's rubbish and wastefulness have managed to colonise most of the world. The ultimate avian opportunist perhaps. Monitoring suggests a severe decline in the UK house sparrow population, recently estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008 with substantial declines in both rural and urban populations. While the decline in England continues, Breeding Bird Survey data indicate recent population increases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
What they eat:
Seeds and scraps.
Measurements:
Length:14-15cm
Wingspan:21-25.5cm
Weight:24-38g
Population:
UK breeding:5,300,000 pairs
Where and when to see them
House sparrows can be found from the centre of cities to the farmland of the countryside, they feed and breed near to people. It is a species vanishing from the centre of many cities, but is not uncommon in most towns and villages. It is absent from parts of the Scottish Highlands and is thinly distributed in most upland areas.
Breeding
House sparrows usually nest in loose colonies and since they don't defend a proper territory, nests can be as little as 20-30 cm apart.
How house sparrows nest
Nests are often placed in holes and crevices within buildings and they will readily use nestboxes. Free-standing nests are also frequently built, in creepers against walls and in thick hedges or conifers.
Pairs often remain faithful to their nest site and to each other for life, although a lost mate of either sex is normally replaced within days. A hole is filled with dry grass or straw with a nesting chamber lined with feathers, hairs, string and paper. Feathers may be plucked from a live pigeon!
The main nesting season is from April to August, although nesting has been recorded in all months. Most birds lay two or three clutches, but in a good year fourth attempts are not uncommon.
About house sparrow chicks
The female lays two to five eggs at daily intervals and often starts to incubate part way through egg-laying. Both sexes incubate, and the chicks hatch after 11-14 days. The parents share nesting duties equally. Chicks are brooded for 6-8 days, but can control their own body temperature only when 10 or 11 days old.
The youngsters are fed on a variety of invertebrates, including aphids, caterpillars, beetles and grasshoppers. Seeds and vegetable matter are also given, particularly during periods when invertebrates are scarce (e.g. cold weather) and become more important after the chicks leave the nest.
The young fledge 14-16 days after hatching. They are unable to feed themselves for about a week after leaving the nest and are cared for by their parents for around a fortnight. Post-fledging care is frequently left to the male as the hen prepares for the next brood. She can begin laying her next clutch of eggs within days of the previous brood leaving the nest.
Newly independent young often gather in large flocks, anywhere there is an abundance of seed, invertebrates and other suitable foods. These may be areas of wasteland or around garden feeding sites. Later, rural flocks may move on to grainfields to feed on the ripening grain, often joined by adult birds, once they have finished nesting. Flocks tend to break up through the autumn and birds return to their nesting colony sites.
Population trends
The house sparrow is common through most of its world range, and can tolerate a wide variety of climates.
The recent decline of house sparrows
UK house sparrow populations have fluctuated greatly over the centuries, with a gradual decline during the last 100 years.
Causes for the rapid recent declines, particularly in urban and suburban environments, remain largely undetermined, although research is underway that aims to establish the cause(s), and develop conservation solutions.
Declines in rural house sparrow populations are thought to be linked to changes in agricultural practices, particularly the loss of winter stubbles and improved hygiene measures around grain stores.
House sparrow numbers were not monitored adequately before the mid-1970s. Since then, numbers in rural England have nearly halved while numbers in towns and cities have declined by 60 per cent. Because of these large population declines, the house sparrow is now red-listed as a species of high conservation concern.
Relations with humans and other animals
People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. However, control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.
Their relationship with humans
People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. For many they are the most familiar of wild animals, bringing life to city centres and other man-made places, bereft of wildlife.
The house sparrows partiality to grain crops and the damage and destruction this caused resulted in attempts to control their numbers. From the mid-18th century most parishes had sparrow clubs with the sole objective to destroy as many sparrows as possible. Bounties were paid for sparrows until the late 19th century, when it was accepted that the control measures did not work. Similar failures were recorded in a number of other European countries.
Ironically, as people in Europe were paid to kill sparrows as pests, others deliberately introduced them to places as far apart as Australia and New York. Initially they were welcomed, although later appreciation turned to serious concern for the impact on crops. By then sparrows had become well established and control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.
How sparrows behave with other animals
Sparrows are aggressive tend to dominate feeders in gardens and prevent other birds from getting to the food. They harass other birds and steal their food and take over their nests, particularly house martins. The eviction and interference often results in a reduction in breeding success and can cause desertion of even large martin colonies.
Sparrows frequently tear to pieces the nests of martins and swallows and eject any eggs or chicks therein. The owners are unable to stop them.
Sparrows are very resilient and for their size have remarkably few serious predators. Main predators are domestic cats, owls (especially tawny) and sparrowhawks, but none are capable of affecting the size of the sparrow population, with the possible exception of localised effects by cats.
Finally managed a picture of SSR’s interstate grain train after many years of running now.
C506, CLF3, 4917 and CLP9 lead 2CM4 from Coolamon through Yerong Creek bound for Appleton Dock in Melbourne.
(30/12/24)
I managed a drive over to the coast this weekend. It had been years since I'd seen the ocean! This photo is from the little beach town of Princeton-by-the-Sea, about 25 miles south of San Francisco. Years ago a friend and I would take a bottle of wine, a loaf of French bread, and a crab net here and amuse ourselves for hours on this pier. We always had some Dungeness crabs to take home - but the wine was usually gone.
Title says it all really. Found this beautiful immature damselfly whilst out walking the dog this morning :) Was pretty windy but managed this handheld stack.
Managed a trip to the former Coats Baptist Church in Paisley. Constructed in 1894, in memory of philanthropist Thomas Coats it is now a multi purpose venue. Yesterday it was hosting a wedding fayre. www.coatspaisley.com #paisley #coatsvenue
I managed to see the Aurora on Thursday night. I took loads of photos and had such a great time. I was completely alone on my favourite beach at Rhossili (3 miles long!). Not the best Aurora shots I have seen but still happy to get anything! All shots taken in RAW and converted to jpeg images with no added saturation.
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Managed to get a couple of rolls with Kodak Plus-X Pan 125 (expired around 2004). Shot this roll at ISO80.
Lokken, Norway
Mamiya 7ii
Mamiya N 80mm f4 L
Kodak Plus-X Pan 125 @ISO80
120 film
Heliopan Orange filter
Bergger PMK Pyro (1+2+100) 10:00mins
Moersch Alkaline Fixer (4mins)
Epson V850
Negative Lab Pro
Lightroom
I managed to lose the front of my diffuser back in July. I was leaning over the railing on a floating a bridge to shoot a spider and the wind caught it and it fell into the water. It being held together using neodymium magnets is very useful, but obviously I hadn't built it strong enough.
Since there was no one around but my family (this was out in a nature reserve) I decided to strip off and dive for it.
I spent a while there, but my attempts were fruitless so there was not much else to do but go home and build myself a new one.
This is the second test shot taken with version 7 of my diffuser. It had been raining that day and this was in the evening so I had couldn't be too picky with subjects and this acalyptrate fly (Meiosimyza decempunctata) in the neighbour's hedge is perhaps not the most challenging of subjects, but I am please with the results.
Version 7 now have 10 magnets instead of 5 to hold the diffusion sheet so I believe it will be much more weather-safe now.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52258437870/
We managed to get out & enjoy a couple of nice walks in the sunshine but my buddy has had a bit of a rough time of it this week! Barney had a dreaded trip to the vets for a vaccination on Thursday, so he got jabbed and his horrid hooman stopped him from biting the evil vet again! Then on Saturday, he had his first dog fight in a looooong time (he came off worst). The scrap was with dad's partner's BC Hovis, who's quite nervy & anxious about Barney but also rather provocative & annoying. Hovis will do things like follow Barn around for ages, really invading his space, nipping his hocks, then skitter away nervously when he turns around.
For everyone's sanity, I mostly keep them separate when Hovis is here & when the dogs are together, they're watched, praised for calm behaviour & parted if they start getting too tense. Up till now, Barney has generally been restrained in his responses to Hovis but he must've had enough this weekend. There was a brief, loud scuffle, in which Hovis came away with a minor cut on his paw & Barney got bitten in the face a few times :( He's now looking rather the worse for wear. I was initially worried but having cleaned him up, it's clear the cuts are superficial - hopefully they'll heal fast. It was quick & mostly just noise but I still feel really bad they managed to have a fight :( Barney seems fine in himself but he's still had quite a few extra treats & cuddles this weekend! Hoping next week is less... exciting.
Managed a shot if our moon tonight, taken with an iPhone through a very big telescope. Thanks to Dave of York astronomical society for his help.
every time i look at this image i am blown away knowing that it was taken on an iPhone,
Well I first imaged M94 three years ago but never managed to get the outer ring so I thought it was time I added to this data to get a better result. I have add an addition 28 min of green, 28 min of blue and 12 min of red. I’ve also obtained an additional 40 min of luminance. This is has increased the total Integration time from 2h 36min to 4h 24min, nearly an additional two hours of data.
Object Description:-
M94, also known as NGC 4736, is a face on spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. M94 has an inner ring diameter of approx. 5,400 LY and an outer ring diameter of approx. 45,000 LY. The inner ring is an area of strong star formation activity. From Earth Its has an apparent dimension of 11.2 x 9.1 arc sec and a visual mag of 8.99 and lies at distance of 16 million LY.
EQUIPMENT:-
Telescope Meade 6000 115mm and AZ-EQ6 GT
ZWO ASI1600mm-Cool camera
Orion Mini Auto Guide
ZWO LRGB Filters
Chip Temp Cooled to -20 degC
IMAGING DETAILS:-
M94 (Canes Venatici)
Gain 139 (Unit Gain)
22 Red subs@120sec (44 min)
30 Green subs@120sec (1h min)
30 Blue subs@120sec (1h min)
50 Lum subs@120sec (1h 40min)
Total imaging Time 4h 24 min
Dithering
20 Darks
No Flats
PROCESSING/GUIDING SOFTWARE:-
APT "Astro Photograph Tools"
DSS
PS CS2
I managed a fast turnaround as this one which was taken yesterday evening 3rd December. I had wanted to take some shots from this location on the Thames foreshore for a while. There have been a few other pictures by others but not many. For a start it requires low tide in the evening and a reasonable day. I had checked tide times and low tide came 40 minutes after sunset and also showers were due to clear to blue skies by the evening which they did just in time. The scene now is very different to earlier pictures with 3 tall new skyscrapers nearing completion on the western side of the Canary Wharf financial district for this view from Rotherhithe. This shot was taken at 4.30 pretty much at low tide and a sandy area was showing going further out into the river. This gave the opportunity to get a composition leading into the image. During the next image exposure though I had to make a fast retreat as a speedy river ferry came by creating a great wave. The surface of the river bank in the area was gravelly or firm sand unlike the quite dangerous deep mud which is present on some parts of the Thames foreshore.
I did some advance research using Street View which includes some parts of the riverside Thames Path to find the stairs down to the foreshore. The area is close to Doubletree Hilton Hotel and going west from there the first alley after the Blacksmiths Arms leads to the steps. These are very slippery with a railing for only part of them so a lot of care was needed. It is not exactly easy to get to. The nearest Underground is Canada Water and then the C10 bus which goes right past.
The picture was taken with a Sony A68 with a Sigma 10-20 zoom at 11mm. 3 raw images 2EV spacing for HDR. The picture was enhanced with HDR processing using contrast optimiser setting in Photomatix for a natural look; Topaz clarity was used for more detail. In Photoshop some adjustments were made to hue saturation to bring down blue saturation for a more natural look and bring up reds and yellows.
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Like last year, we stopped here in the hope of seeing the Northern Lights. There were some breaks in the cloud, and I did manage to capture some faint green auroral streaks in the Ursa Major area, but nothing was visible to the eye unfortunately. It was a picturesque spot, though.
After working out the double exposure-enable/disable instructions on the Canon.Managed after numerous attempts to achieve a reasonable result.
Managed to get a few snaps of this beautiful field just before it started raining, Plenty of photographers out snapping this so difficult to get one without someone in the picture. I am surprised how lovely it still looks following the recent storms we have had
Managed to get a few shots of Pulpit Rock after a storm had moved through which produced a great array of colours in the sky. This is a 3 shot stitch using the shift on a 24mm tilt shift lens
My husband and I just happened to be passing the place where the other day I managed a few photographs of waxwings.
I could not resisit going to have another look !!
How pleased I was as I managed a few more which I am delighted to share with you.
Hope you are as excited about these delightful birds as I am.
This chap was feasting on berries.
I managed to take a few shots of a semi-cooperative Gecko. I looked down at my camera to adjust the exposure compensation on my flash and when I looked up it was gone.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F14, 1/250, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to over 1x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI and Clarity in that order.
Yesterday morning I ventured up the coast to Paignton Pier for sunrise with Darren Blight Photography
When we got there we were surprised to see how rough and high the tide was, it was crashing over the sea wall on the beach at some points and we did have a few moments where we got a bit wet. We did capture some of that action, and I'll save that photo for tomorrow, but as the colour appeared in the sky I decided on a long exposure shot of the pier for a more artistic effect. Using my 6 stop filter I managed to get an exposure of 85 seconds which flattened out the sea nicely.
I loved the dark slate/blue colour of the water at this time of day, but unfortunately, the colour in the sky didn't last very long and it ended up being rather grey and flat 15 minutes later.
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Seraph Sin are a Glasgow-based Industrial Metal band.
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Managed to snap this heron (though not in ideal lighting) on the canal walk between Chippenham and Lacock.
I'm back from Iceland. It was great and I managed to get one self-shot while I was there. Hope you like it :) Oh and I finally got 40.000 views! Yay!
This week in 1996, STS-78 and its primary payload, the Life and Microgravity Spacelab, launched. During the 17-day spaceflight, the crew conducted a diverse slate of experiments divided into a mix of life science and microgravity investigations.
Five space agencies -- NASA, European Space Agency, French Space Agency, Canadian Space Agency and Italian Space Agency -- along with research scientists from 10 countries worked together on the design, development and construction of the laboratory.
LMS investigations, managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, conducted the most extensive telescience to date, similar to investigations on the International Space Station.
Today, Marshall is home to the Payload Operations and Integration Center -- the command center for all science operations on the ISS, ensuring successful science operations to benefit people on Earth and to pave the way for deep space exploration. Flight controllers are on the clock 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to help astronauts in orbit and scientists on the ground.
For more fun throwbacks, check out Marshall's History Album by clicking here.
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Visiting friends in Bad Kösen. We took our bikes and went for a little tour. Unfortunately, it was just too hot, and we couldn't manage more than 22 km. There was still a lot to see that I'd like to show you.
I managed to spot this from the ground of the Hotel Suvastu ast Fiza Ghat in District Swat. Brown Crakes are rare in Pakistan - only recorded around Rawalpindi previously but I managed to spot two here. The fact that two are up here and in March could mean many things - they could be resident, they could be on passage migration, they could be dispersing, they could be a pair, they could have bred, be a family....
It is the first time I have seen this bird. A great pleasure to add to the list!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_crake
The Brown Crake (Amaurornis akool), or Brown Bush-hen, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family (Rallidae) found in South Asia.
Its genus name, Amaurornis, comes from the Greek amauros, meaning "dusky" or "brown" and ornis, meaning "bird".[2] The species name, akool, is of uncertain origin. It may come from Hindu mythology, or it may be a derivation of the Sinhalese word kukkula, which is used for both moorhen and watercock.
Managed to photograph my first bird today! Here’s Mr Blue Tit! :)
Not sure why the funky edit. I’m getting worse!
Taken at Oakwell Hall and Country Park, Birstall, West Yorkshire
Managed to locate 3 earlier today. Here is a shot of just the one. I did come across a lady who had 2 dogs off leash directly under an owl. This may be the same one that others have come across letting her dogs chase owls in the fields.