New D7100

Another trip to Clara Vale today, it was raining again. No sign of the Kingfisher this time while I was there, I hope the other birders that were waiting for it to show had better luck after I left. I was trying out my new Nikon D7100 and I must say after trying it for only the second time I am impressed. It seems to handle low light and high ISO very well. There’s not much noise and feather detail is picked out nicely. Looking forward to trying it out on a sunny day.

Robin

Tree Sparrow 

Moorhen

Greenfinch

Yellowhammer

Yellowhammer

Nuthatch

Nuthatch

Nuthatch

Bullfinch

 





A wet morning at Clara Vale

Clara Vale yesterday morning was wet. Arrived around 7.45 and there was nothing much around but 45mins later a male Kingfisher turned up. It did not hang around long, it caught one fish then it was off. There was the usual array of other small birds all looking somewhat bedraggled in the rain. The male Kingfisher put in another appearance followed shortly by a female but a Moorhen chased her off. Not a bad morning.

The picture of the Curlew was taken at Muggleswick later in the morning and was the only picture I took while I was there.

Kingfisher (male)

Kingfisher (female)

Bullfinch

Dunnock

Nuthatch

Moorhen chick

Yellowhammer

Greenfinch

Tree Sparrow

Willow Tit

Rabbit

Curlew

 

A good day out

Had a good day out yesterday at a few spots on my “local patch”. Nothing out of the ordinary or special but never the less a good day.

Mouse

Coal Tit

Yellowhammer

Tree Sparrow

Magpie

Dipper

Dipper

Wren

Grey Squirrel

Grey Squirrel

Bullfinch

Moorhen

Grey Wagtail

Woodpigeon

 

  

  



 

Work again

Could not resist taking my camera back to work today to see what was around the now smaller pond.
Here are a few of the images I got.

 

Dingy Skipper

Wall Brown

Large Red Damselfly

Damselfly

My first Dragonfly of the year a
Common Darter

Common Darter

I will put a question mark against these little
things as not sure what they are

I will put a question mark against these little
things as not sure what they are

Work

We have a small pond at work; most of it tends to dry out during the summer months, so I had a walk around it yesterday while it is still there. Below are a few of the shots I took before I started work.

Orange-tip

Green-veined White

Wall Brown

Large Red Damselfly

Damselfly (species?)

Froglet

Scorpion Fly (male)

Pond Skater

Above and two below show the lava of the Great Diving Beetle

 

Wolf Spider carrying egg sac

Spider

Bug

Unfortunately this Newt did not make it
(you can make out a tadpole just starting to eat it bottom right of the shot)