Showing posts with label Oystercatcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oystercatcher. Show all posts

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?







Kestrel ..
(Taken around 9.30pm)

Merlin ..


Linnets ..
Swallows ..
Marsh Frog ..
Goldfinch Singing

Kestrel Hovering

That Marsh Frog again

Monday, 23 April 2018

SHELLS, OYSTERS & ALDERS

A bit late uploading these .. and the videos but .. that is because of my memory issues and I have two cameras, or had that day, to deal with.

I forgot about this non-professional camera!

Anyhoo .. we went out on a warm but very windy day .. which blew me about while I was filming with the zoom at full .. win .. chat! Lol.

This was on Walthamstow Wetlands .. or opposite Walthamstow Wetlands .. not sure if it is all the same place. Another place is called The Paddocks .. no .. just don't! It is on Ferry Lane in Walthamstow not far from Tottenham Hale.

While out we saw Shelducks, Oystercatchers and some Alder Flies, the latter I do not ever recall seeing before that day. Caddis Flies, yes. Alder Flies not so sure ..


















Sunday, 9 April 2017

A TRIP TO AMWELL

Well this was a mostly wasted journey.

I ended up late due to finding out some stuff ... with something I have ... or my family have going on and ended up messaging a lot and on the phone so got out two hours later than planned.

Not that it made much difference as I was aiming to get to a dragonfly sanctuary and ... it turned out to be close until the end of the month! Damn it!!

Loads of Orange Tip Butterflies ... pictures of none!

Head some out of the ordinary bird calls, had hoped to get shots and videos of Reed Buntings and not sure if it was their calls or not.

Anyway I did get a few shots and videos while I was there ...


Shoveler Duck

Great Crested Grebe Hunting

Great Crested Grebe Diving

Great Crested Grebe catching ... RESULT! Not for the fish, mind you!

Great Crested Grebe in Spring Sunshine



Gradually going green..

 A Dunnock, there were three or four of them ...

Until I saw this picture on my PC monitor I had no idea there was a Little Egret at the lake! Flying past the Cormorants ...

A few videos ...

Cormorants

Dunnocks





Shoveler Up Ending

Poachard

Oystercatcher ..



Gulls bathing ...

Great Crested Grebe

Gadwalls ..