Thursday, August 22, 2024
Evening Visit to Cambridge
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Southern Hawker Flight
About three weeks ago I shared images of a very confiding pair of Southern Hawkers visiting our pond to lay egs and we had another female yesterday that returned repeatedly through the day to lay in the moss at the edge of the pond.
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Macro at Paxton
Yesterday we had a Macro day at Paxton for Volunteers and were lucky with the weather - mainly bright and not too windy especially in the morning. Several wasp Spiders located - this one has a Dark Bush Cricket prey. Other favourites were the Vapourer moth caterpillar, the Green Leaf Hopper and the various stages of the Dock Bug. Large numbers of Migrant Hawkers on the wing and pleased to photograph for the first time a Small Red-eyed Damselfly
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Evening Flying at Duxford
Here a miscellany of shots from an Evening Flying show at Duxford which featured a pyrotechnics display by two motorised gliders. Some of the shots were taken by Phil on my camera as he didn't get his gear organised before leaving for work in the morning (used faster shutterspeed 1/640th for gliders) while I used a slow shutterspeed (up to 1.6secs) to accentuate the trails and shapes. The moon wasn't quite full but still impressive.