Birds,bugs etc,around us!!

[marcus2]

A few more of the little chap with a different camera.

[Albert E]

Those are great pictures too Marcus!!I wonder what camera you used!!I can't get the exifs from those pictures!!!Keep them coming!!Great caterpillars and mushrooms!!

Fast lunch!!!And looking for more!!









Regards!!
Albert

[marcus2]

Hi Albert I used a little Fuji finepix A900,cute little thing

[Albert E]

It works very nicely!!Great pictures!!
Albert

[The Blunt End]

More and more fabulous shots are added to this thread every time I look. I'm almost sorry to add my meager efforts to it.

I spotted this little fellow hovering over something in the grass on the coast of south Wales, I'm no good with birds of prey can someone identify it for me?



Sorry for the picture quality I wasn't set up for wildlife, I'd been shooting my friends throwing themselves into the sea, the top one is a blown up crop from another shot because I couldn't get close enough for the zoom.

[Simon K]

If it was hovering it is likely to be a kestrel and looking at your pictures I would say it is female due to the colour of the head. Hard to tell. A nice picture seeing as you weren't set up for it.

Simon

[The Blunt End]

Thanks Simon

It was stock still in the air with its wings spread just like that for quite long periods (Which is how I could get any pictures at all), we were right on the cliffs so there was probably quite an updraft. It just sat there, then slipped the air from under its wings and dropped, to swoop up and round to hover again slightly further round the cliff.

I've got to find out where we were (We were basically kidnapped by some girls for the weekend) and go back more set up for mooching around the hills with a camera, it's quite a place.

[Albert E]

That kestrel shot is quite good considdering you were not really prepared for distant shots!!In flight bird shots are not easy!!Focusing sometimes gets erratic,and if you use long focal lenses it is tough to keep them in the frame!!Looking forward to more of your pictures!!
Thank you Simon for identifying the kestrel!!
Regards!!
Albert

[Albert E]

We must have posted at the same time!!!That area looks fabulous!!Lovely cliffs and seaside!!!Considdering you were in good company,"lost"and kidnapped some place,makes the pictures still better!!!
Regards!!
Albert

[The Blunt End]

Thanks Albert
It was a great weekend in a fabulous place. Here's a shot of some of the wildlife we took with us

I just ad no idea where I was at all

[Albert E]

Fabulous!!!Undoubtedly a ver "wild" wildlife!!!!Looks like great fun too!!
A picture keeps those memories throughout our lives!!!(I gots lots from a long time ago!!!My Fathers and mine,and some really old...)
Thanks for posting!!
Albert

[Albert E]

Hi!!!I am just back from a lovely vacation with my wife in Miami!!Just a few pictures there with my old (small)Sony W7!!!
A couple of sunrises from the hotel room,and some other pictures!!



























Thanks for looking!!
Regards!!
Albert

[blennycatcher]

Some nice Miami lizard pictures Albert, were there a lot of them around?

I saw a kingfisher hovering over the river the other day and I've been going back with my camera but I haven't seen him again yet.

Just some swans again




And an Autumn butterfly resting in the sun

[Albert E]

Swans are so beautiful!!!Nice butterfly too!!Kingfishers are difficult to "catch" I allways see them when I have no camera!!!
I hope you get a picture and show it to us!!
Regards!!
Albert

[terry221984]

not really birds and bugs but took these on dartmoor in august only on a compact cannon ixus 100is but a really smart little camera i recon