Mainly birds from Wooleen (final episode)

The last lot of mainly birds from my Wooleen trip. To anyone who has got this far, thanks for looking -


A couple of drinking Zebra...
 

Mainly birds From my Wooleen trip (part3)

Another set of pictures from my Wooleen Station trip

A sunrise - it was much later that I thought "could have tried the gradND",...
 

Red Kite over the Towy Valley



OM-5 and the 40-150mm

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Tonights Moon.

Just got the MC-20 so this is the first try with the 300mm.




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Berries

OM-1 7-14mm @7mm ISO 640 f8 1/125 sec.

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Bobcats!

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Few from the River today

Little Ouse river today, short walk yielded well...
 

A few more morning birds

No clouds, flowers are gone. Just birds for now.

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3 bands at Melbourn Rock Club

Last weekend it was back to the local rock club to see three bands. The usual sound and lighting chap wasn't there, and whilst the sound was better, the...
 

I'm getting started and - probably - hooked on astro photography!

Here's my snap from Grassholme Observatory (near Barnard Castle, Durham, UK) last week at 23:28 after an exciting evening talk and time with nice telescopes...
 

Wells

After a short visit to Glastonbury, it was a hop over to Wells for a quick two hour look around. Highlight of course was the magnificent Vicars Close....
 

Glastonbury

First visit, very brief just over two hours. Decided to just attempt to catch the `vibe`of this odd place. It must hold a recorf for the number of vegan...
 

Kingfisher close up

A bit of colour from the summer

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Mr and Mrs

Oldies again I’m afraid - currently on house arrest decorating our new place 😳😳😳



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My best posing bird of the year?

Recently home from my annual trip to see my sister and family in Canada (Ottawa) and for the third year running 2 weeks of almost complete wall-to-wall...

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