Wildlife pictures

[maddave]

Swans in Sharpness

 

[British Red]

That is competition winning Dave - absolutely beautiful

 

[Niels]

Maddave what camera do you use?

 

[brancho]

Here are some of mine


Hover fly on hogweed by alf.branch, on Flickr


Drinker moth caterpiller by alf.branch, on Flickr


Slug by alf.branch, on Flickr

 

[maddave]

Maddave what camera do you use?

I have a couple, but the one I grab most of the time is the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT2 "tough cam"... I love it !!

Quick review here...

http://www.pluggedin.co.uk/article/...-a-hybrid-model-with-an-abundance-of-features


Brancho.... Those are awesome !!

Cheers for the feedback Red

 

[brancho]

Thanks Dave they are OK.

Here are some more


Spider and fly by alf.branch, on Flickr

This was taken on holiday in Italy


Wasp by alf.branch, on Flickr


Orange tip male 1 by alf.branch, on Flickr


orange tip female 1 by alf.branch, on Flickr

Again Italy


Hummingbird Hawkmoth by alf.branch, on Flickr

A very ropey photo of a large bee in italy


Big bee 2 by alf.branch, on Flickr

 

[Niels]

That hummingmoth picture is awesome!

 

[Harvestman]

Alf all of those are just wonderful. Puts mine to shame. I especially like the slug.

 

[Turnstone]

Beautiful pictures! I tried to photograph those hummingbird moths but couldn't get a sharp picture. Well, that was many years ago and slide film was expensive...

Some roe deer from last sunday.

 

[Niels]

Beautiful pictures! I tried to photograph those hummingbird moths but couldn't get a sharp picture. Well, that was many years ago and slide film was expensive...

Some roe deer from last sunday.

That gives a thrill doesn't it? Where you very close or did you use a camera with strong zoom?
Beautiful picture!

 

[Turnstone]

Both. I used a 300mm lens on a MFT camera (gives 600mm equivalent). First they were a little bit farther away (I guess about 150m). I just sat down and waited, and after a few minutes they came closer, closest thing I guess was about 50 m. Wonderful feeling! Then one of them discovered me (maybe some reflection of the lens or my glasses or the sound of the shutter) and they disappeared!

 

[brancho]

That hummingmoth picture is awesome!

Thanks I was just getting to knolw the camera when I took that.

Alf all of those are just wonderful. Puts mine to shame. I especially like the slug.

Thanks mate I am really plaesed with the slug myself.

 

[DonnyOutdoors]

I was walking near a lake yesterday evening and passed a small copse. I saw a lump on a tree which looked like an owl...Turned out it was an owl. A tawny, sleeping in a tree, just a little above my head height. I can see he's slightly peeping at me.

 

[hotchy]

Have this little fella every day in the garden...

sometimes there is two chasing each other.

 

[Harvestman]

Canada goose

Small tortoiseshell (my third butterfly species of the year so far)

Early bumble bee, Bombus leucorum

A slug of my own (not as good as the one above though)

Another duck in flight

And perhaps someone can say what this LBJ (Little Brown Job) is, as I'm not totally confident, and it was unhelpfully silent.

 

[Harvestman]

Have this little fella every day in the garden...

sometimes there is two chasing each other.

Hotchy, if you post a pic, when you put the code in, delete everything except the bits highlighted in red, leaving the square brackets at each end, and this happens:

Great pics by the way

 

[Bushwhacker]

LBJ is a warbler, but I don't know off hand what sort it is.

 

[Harvestman]

Actually the bird is almost certainly a chiffchaff or a willow warbler, but as the best way to distinguish them is by song, and this one kept its beak shut (or was a female) I just can't tell them apart.

Chiffchaff if I had to guess, due to brown egs and general lack of a greenish-yellow colour, but field separation of those two species is extremely difficult.

 

[Mad Mike]

Went for a walk around a local garden today. Got mugged for breadcrumbs at the tea shop



Came so close I had to lean back to get the camera to focus

And some Wood sorrel (I think) in flower

Nice to be out in the sun

Mike

 

[Harvestman]

That chaffinch is glorious. And yes, that is wood sorrell.