Some pictures I took recently

keps · 03-09-2018 11:16pm

Meteorite58 wrote: »

What a beautiful plumage , lovely shot keps.

Thanks indeed

BTW if you double click on that image - it will bring you to the flickr page - where if you click on it again you will see a larger version:)

stevensi · 04-09-2018 10:28am

keps wrote: »

Spotted this guy on Dunmoran Strand Sligo today

Help with id would be appreciated ( thought it might be a sandpiper????)

BTW Like the way the lens caught the light on the rocks in the background:)

Dunmoran

Hi Keps,

That is not sandpiper but a bird know as a Knot.

keps · 04-09-2018 11:37am

Thanks indeed Stevensi

I had never heard of that bird before.. Birdwatch indicate ithat it is mainly a winter visitor so probably not that usual to see one in August.

Taken Dunmoran Strand, Sligo

OpenYourEyes · 04-09-2018 8:33pm

keps wrote: »

Birdwatch indicate ithat it is mainly a winter visitor so probably not that usual to see one in August.

Numbers of 'wintering' species tend to peak around what we would consider winter - i.e. Nov-Feb, but they start arriving from late July onwards, depending on the species, and stay here until mid-April or therabouts.

NEW WAVE · 04-09-2018 8:48pm

Comorant

NEW WAVE · 06-09-2018 10:46pm

Kingfisher

NEW WAVE · 09-09-2018 8:14pm

Heron

older i get better i was · 10-09-2018 8:44pm

Dodder?

NEW WAVE wrote: »

Kingfisher

NEW WAVE · 10-09-2018 9:46pm

All on the Boyne.

gzoladz · 11-09-2018 7:38am

Out and about testing the Nikon P1000. Piedwagtail (3000mm equiv handheld), Grasshopper and Curlew.

OwlEye · 11-09-2018 5:13pm

Great photos, only got the P900 in April myself, couldn't wait for the September release. Is it worth the extra cost?

gzoladz · 11-09-2018 6:11pm

OwlEye wrote: »

Great photos, only got the P900 in April myself, couldn't wait for the September release. Is it worth the extra cost?

Thanks OwlEye - if it is worth it is very personal...however Nikon did throw a lot of enhancements to it and I am happy enough so far: 4k, raw, focus ring, much better evf, much better screen, focus ring (works a treat), longer focal lenght (2000 -> 3000), hot shoe, mic port, zoom scale, snapbridge (this could be a plus or a minus).

On the flipside...50% heavier (but still reasonably light), much bigger, lower battery life (not bad battery life, but lower than the P900. WIth GPS off I used to get 700/800 shots with the P900, my P1000 battery died at 515 this weekend).

OwlEye · 11-09-2018 7:07pm

gzoladz wrote: »

Thanks OwlEye - if it is worth it is very personal...however Nikon did throw a lot of enhancements to it and I am happy enough so far: 4k, raw, focus ring, much better evf, much better screen, focus ring (works a treat), longer focal lenght (2000 -> 3000), hot shoe, mic port, zoom scale, snapbridge (this could be a plus or a minus).

On the flipside...50% heavier (but still reasonably light), much bigger, lower battery life (not bad battery life, but lower than the P900. WIth GPS off I used to get 700/800 shots with the P900, my P1000 battery died at 515 this weekend).

Oh well....thanks gzoladz, looks like there's going to be another P900 on Adverts then.

NEW WAVE · 11-09-2018 9:23pm

Dipper

keps · 13-09-2018 8:41pm

Dodder banks 2day

Goldcrest

I spy with my little eye

keps · 14-09-2018 8:40pm

Long Tailed Tit

NEW WAVE · 14-09-2018 9:13pm

Kingfisher

gzoladz · 17-09-2018 7:21am

Some more testing...Kingfisher, Little Egret, Chiffchaff, Blue and Long Tailed-tit, some damselfly? and a Daddy Long Legs

tricky D · 17-09-2018 2:19pm

gzoladz wrote: »

some damselfly?

Looks like Common Hawker Dragonfly. Damselflies don't usually spread their wings out as in the pic.

gzoladz · 22-09-2018 8:34pm

Blackbird having a bath, Kingfisher and Bluetit.

NEW WAVE · 23-09-2018 9:59pm

Swan and Cygnet

I’ve photographed this cygnet when it was one of five with its parents in mid June and on a regular basis since. Over time this is the only survivor. The last time I saw them together was last Tuesday 18/9 on the weir above and it’s around three months old. Since then I have only seen the parent. I doubt if the cygnet has flown away.

black forest · 24-09-2018 12:30am

Young female mantis blown by the storm into my midge nets at my door to the garden. Had to recue her with a little stick and put her into a sheltered corner at the wall. Normally they are a bit more coloured. Two or three a year are finding their way to my place. One even left her eggs at my fence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_mantis

Canon 40D with kit optic 18-55mm & B+T NL4 lens(+4 diopt.) .

*Have tried everything to embed the pictures. To no avail. May be next time.

New Home · 24-09-2018 1:35am

You can't embed because you don't have enough posts.

Here they are for you:

gzoladz · 24-09-2018 5:41am

black forest wrote: »

Young female mantis blown by the storm into my midge nets at my door to the garden. Had to recue her with a little stick and put her into a sheltered corner at the wall. Normally they are a bit more coloured. Two or three a year are finding their way to my place. One even left her eggs at my fence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_mantis

Canon 40D with kit optic 18-55mm & B+T NL4 lens(+4 diopt.) .

*Have tried everything to embed the pictures. To no avail. May be next time.

Wow! Is that in Ireland?

gzoladz · 24-09-2018 6:48am

Honey bee (?), Common Darter and Common Hawker. Ballynafagh, Kildare. I only found this place last week, what a wildlife heaven this is!

black forest · 24-09-2018 3:54pm

@New Home...aaah, could have thought of that. Thanks a lot, i´ll be patient.

@gzoladz Ooops, sorry, not in IE. I´m in the most sw part of Germany next to the city of Breisach. The rine valley can get very hot and there is quite a bit of migration of species from the Mediterranean . Especially birds and insects. Wild cats are migrating via Switzerland to the Black forest as well as lynx from France and wolves from up north and the east. Love it here!:D

The next three pictures are from last year. Sadly the Tamron 70-300mm zoom lens caused a short circuit and killed the electronics of my Canon 20D. :rolleyes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruddy_darter

Pictures taken here:

https://www.google.com/maps/search/liliental,ihringen/@48.0687986,7.6669166,15z

New Home · 24-09-2018 3:58pm

Here they are, in all their glory.

keps · 24-09-2018 4:09pm

Dodder today

Grey Heron and Cormorant

black forest · 25-09-2018 6:44pm

There are a few pairs of storks at the Mundenhof. They are returning every year for breeding. They have no problems to find enough food but for the visitors they get fed fish in buckets every afternoon.

So i cropped the pictures as red buckets are not so interesting. At least i got the right moment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundenhof

https://www.freiburg.de/pb/,Len/234656.html

NEW WAVE · 25-09-2018 9:26pm

Kingfisher

Some pictures I took recently

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