BRITISH WILDLIFE: Carduelis carduelis

Thursday, 28 June 2018

KENT'S RAPTOR POINT, FROGS & FINCHES

Well .. it was actually good and very, very .. cool!

But it was .. tough!

My health condition is doing its best to try and kill me .. one way it lets me know this, though it did not yesterday when I went on this trip, and another way has no damn warning.

Plus it likes to throw me some curve-balls and often two ore more at once.

I was in a .. very nice bed and breakfast with a very nice owner down in Minster on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent.

Brother suggested we do this, the one I can talk to, has a car and does not perform like a child depending on the conversation topic. Lol. We went down with two nephews I had not seen in a while, one almost 18 while the other .. umm .. very young? Lol, I have a terrible memory but I would suggest he is three .. give or take a couple of months. Probably less.

Yeah on the evening I had a nerve wracking drive down, a panic attack once there and extremely uncomfortable feeling. This led to some trouble sleeping but I got there in the end.

The feeling persisted in a weaker form the next day .. finally disappeared after a pint of shandy and a couple of extra pills after my thighs started to ache. Up until this point I have only used my jpeg only Nikon P900 and had neglected the Sony A99II as I was not feeling particularly artistic ..

Also noticed just as I was about to post that the Nikon pics are bad .. not sure why this is .. did notice some dust on the lens at one point and cleaned it off .. also not sure if the exceptionally bright sunlight had an effect?

https://flic.kr/p/JVZ8wn

https://flic.kr/p/Ls65Pu

https://flic.kr/p/25PUSZJ

https://flic.kr/p/25S9ies

https://flic.kr/p/LuiL71

https://flic.kr/p/28vtjCL

https://flic.kr/p/28BcCfV

Kestrel ..

https://flic.kr/p/28zTJkH

(Taken around 9.30pm)

Merlin ..

https://flic.kr/p/27dCcDv

https://flic.kr/p/28B9Bqe

Linnets ..

https://flic.kr/p/JYg9f2

Swallows ..

https://flic.kr/p/LuiQqS

Marsh Frog ..

https://flic.kr/p/LuiJX7

Goldfinch Singing

https://flic.kr/p/LuiRTS

Kestrel Hovering

https://flic.kr/p/LuiUQU

https://flic.kr/p/LuiV3Y

That Marsh Frog again

https://flic.kr/p/25S9k7A

Tuesday, 6 March 2018

THE SCAUP & THE GOLDENEYE

I visited a new site while I was down here.

We had many days of snowing and freezing temperatures which was days on end of misery which ended up a day of getting some very sad and distressing news. It was pretty bad and still is .. something else for my corruption blog in time I guess?

I was about fit to burst .. or throw myself under a bus and had to get out. My brother said he wanted to go to a place where a Little Bunting had been spotted. He had also said there were reports of Scaup and Goldeneye ducks and at first I decided I was not going. But then I changed my mind ..

I did decide to only take my Nikon P900 .. but I am going back today with the Sony A99 II and a couple lenses and a monopod!

This is why ..

There was indeed a Scaup ..

You can see a higher resolution picture and others on my Flickr account..

https://www.flickr.com/photos/89426160@N05/40598581772/in/dateposted-public/

Oh and there was a Goldeneye .. or two ..

See Higher res pictures and leave a like at ..

https://www.flickr.com/photos/89426160@N05/26768978378/in/dateposted-public/

There were also Linnets .. though when they flew away we could have sworn we see a greenish yellow colour and thought they were Siskins .. until we got back and took one look at the pictures ..