Territorial Birds

Yellow Hammer, Whitethroat and Blackbird were singing at full volume on my morning walk today. The light was excellent, only problem was quite a strong wind which made handholding the lens difficult.

Yellow is the Colour

It seems almost overnight that our local views have become dominated by the yellow rape fields. Phone images only - must take a camera to record the fields on the next blue sky day; first five images from Sunday; last three today under grey skies.

Sunday is World Pinhole Day

Every year there is a day in April where pinhole camera users post an image so I thought I ought to prepare for it. Barry kindly lent me his Lensbaby composer which has a pinhole option. Here a selection from our local church. The last two are with the lensbaby with lens rather than pinhole

 

Toft Churchyard Focus on Bees

The first image is Andrena nitida, one of 13 species photographed this month in Toft Churchyard. It has a great range of vegetation with some areas mown regularly and therefore with lots of dandelions and daisies, other areas are cut back round graves but longer and other areas are left wild with alkanet, White Dead Nettle and lots of stinging nettle. 

Hamerton Zoo

Yesterday we went to Hamerton Zoo for Meredith's birthday outing. The log in the Meercats' enclosure added greatly to portraits. Not an easy place to photograph as the second barrier is a distance from the cage bars in most cases. As always the Red Kites put on a very spectacular display.