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Re: Your Spring/Summer Photos

Post by BenWickes » Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:10 am

CharlieinNewMexico wrote:
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Think that’s about 44c in your money 😳
More my type of temperature. Missus was moaning it was too warm here the other day. Was only about 21 degrees. I still had my thermals on and sweater. Needs to be 38 degrees plus before I even take my sweater off.

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Re: Your Spring/Summer Photos

Post by CharlieinNewMexico » Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:19 am

It is brutal right now BW. Dog won’t go for a walk till midnight because the tarmac scorches his paws, and I’m driving around at 3pm because the ac in the car cools me down more efficiently.

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Re: Your Spring/Summer Photos

Post by BenWickes » Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:24 am

CharlieinNewMexico wrote:
Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:19 am
It is brutal right now BW. Dog won’t go for a walk till midnight because the tarmac scorches his paws, and I’m driving around at 3pm because the ac in the car cools me down more efficiently.
Don't take dogs out here to be fair if it's over 75 degrees. We have a big garden though to run in. Interesting you find it too hot. I'd be in my element at those temperatures.

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Re: Your Spring/Summer Photos

Post by CharlieinNewMexico » Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:32 am

I think it’s because I know it’s just the start of 2 months of this

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Re: Your Spring/Summer Photos

Post by BenWickes » Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:40 am

You not got A/C in the house? Only ask as I went to Tulsa once and came out of the shower wetter than while I was in it, such was the humidity. Do Agree, when you come out you're hit with a wall of heat if A/C is on. We resorted to fans in house. Cooled it down to about 80 ish so felt not as bad. I get your point. You need respite, some rain and a cool breeze. Still. Wouldn't mind a week and half of 110 degrees, a few days storms for the plants then back again.

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Re: Your Spring/Summer Photos

Post by Steve1956 » Sun Jul 19, 2020 9:20 am

A beautiful sunrise in a beautiful place
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Post by Steve1956 » Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:54 pm

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I showed you the sunrise here's the sunset.beautiful.
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Post by Croydon Claret » Sat Jul 25, 2020 2:14 pm

My first attempt at growing sunflowers from seeds. Of course I went for the variety named "Claret"
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Re: Your Spring/Summer Photos

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Re: Your Spring/Summer Photos

Post by Claretlad » Wed Aug 12, 2020 8:53 pm

Fly watching the hornets.
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Post by spadesclaret » Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:28 pm

Claretlad, great photo, horrid subject :-)
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Re: Your Spring/Summer Photos

Post by dandeclaret » Sun Aug 16, 2020 7:09 pm

At the start of lockdown, I started a project about the Little Grebe's on the local park pond. It has been a project that has had lots of downs, and not many ups. Grebe's tend to hatch at 21-25 days after the eggs are laid. The Grebe's have had 3 nests. The first nest was destroyed in high winds at day 19, when a large branch from a tree was blown straight through their home. Nest 2 was destroyed on day 18 when high winds blew the nest across the pond, causing it to crash into the wall of the pond and break up, and the eggs fell into the water and were lost. For information, Little Grebe nests are made from pond material, and float in the pond. The eggs are often covered with weeds, and are unique in that they can still incubate despite this.
Around 4 weeks ago, I went to the pond to photograph the ducks at Sunrise, around 5am, and there, bang smack in the middle of the pond, with no cover, was another nest, and shortly after seeing it, I saw the female lay the first egg. The timer was therefore started again, and I've watched them most days since, until last weekend, when the first chick was born. Another followed on Sunday, a third born on Monday, and finally a 4th chick born on Tuesday. When in the nest, the chicks live under the wings of the adults, popping their heads out to get food when one of the adults returns with food. The chicks are around the size of the inside plastic toy egg in a Kinder egg.
From that point on the adults have been working overtime to catch the chick's favourite meal of small sticklebacks and some insect larvae. I recently counted 38 fish caught in one hour by one of the adults. The adults have also been scaring everything off their territory. Any time a duck, or gull strays into their territory, you can see them dive under the water and nip the feet of the intruder until it flies off. It's noticeable that all of the birds now go to the far outer reaches of the pond if they need to swim around the nest, so as not to get a bite.
Finally, on about day 5 the chicks will leave the nest, and go for a swim, and then clamber onto the backs of the parents, who will swim around the pond with their tiny passengers. And this, is the moment, that all the many hours have been invested for. I can tell you the exact time in a morning that the sunlight illuminates the area they are in (it's much later than 5am, which is when I set out some mornings). I can tell you that in the evening there's 12 minutes of light when the sun set's through the trees.
Anyway, it's been fantastic to watch them to this point, and to have met so many people in the park who have taken an interest in them, and the other wildlife that is all around us. There'll be many more photos to follow, but for now, just one. The first time I had seen them leave the nest for a swim, and scramble onto the adult to continue their journey
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Re: Your Spring/Summer Photos

Post by spadesclaret » Sun Aug 16, 2020 8:57 pm

Such dedication, dan. No wonder you always produce such special photos.
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Re: Your Spring/Summer Photos

Post by Buxtonclaret » Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:03 pm

Superb photo & great story, Dan. 8-)
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Re: Your Spring/Summer Photos

Post by dandeclaret » Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:05 pm

Thanks Spades - these have been fascinating to watch, and given me a subject to read up on and learn more about. They were the only subject in the original 2km lockdown here in Ireland that I felt could keep me interested, and here we are nearly 5 months on, and they still have me fascinated. I was there from just after 7:30am yesterday until after 2:30pm to watch them and take these photos, and other than the numb feelings from sitting on tarmac for 7 hours, it was a pleasure.

Thanks Buxton as well, it's appreciated.
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Post by ClaretTony » Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:07 pm

Fantastic Dan

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Post by 4:20 » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:38 pm

I purchased a new phone a couple of days ago, Xiaomi note 9 pro, relatively cheap but I've found it has quite a good camera on it. I edited these in Adobe lightroom. Never taken a photo of the night sky before last night. This could get addictive.

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Post by ALP » Tue Aug 18, 2020 8:15 am

dandeclaret wrote:
Sun Aug 16, 2020 7:09 pm
At the start of lockdown, I started a project about the Little Grebe's on the local park pond.


Superb Dan
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Post by dandeclaret » Tue Aug 18, 2020 12:38 pm

Thanks Tony and Alp.

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Post by Claretlad » Tue Aug 18, 2020 3:41 pm

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Post by spadesclaret » Tue Aug 18, 2020 4:52 pm

Claretlad, what am I looking at? Is it a leaf insect?

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Post by Claretlad » Tue Aug 18, 2020 5:16 pm

Spades i think its a praying mantis ...took it today in a French back garden.
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Post by spadesclaret » Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:47 pm

Thanks, Claretlad. Now that you've told me I can see clearly that it is a praying mantis. I was looking at it from the wrong angle. I saw all the green so thought it might be a leaf insect.

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Post by conyoviejo » Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:40 pm

Thompsons Park.
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Post by Bosscat » Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:44 pm

Llanelli Millenium Wetlands Park yesterday
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Int nature wunderful 🙂
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Post by Mala591 » Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:58 pm

Hebden Bridge in spring
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Post by Mala591 » Fri Aug 28, 2020 12:53 pm

View of Pendle Hill from Crown Point. Feb 2020. Ingleborough in the background.
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Post by Steve1956 » Fri Aug 28, 2020 9:29 pm

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Sunset late August..Elie Fife.
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Post by ClaretTony » Sat Aug 29, 2020 1:19 pm

Mala591 wrote:
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Hebden Bridge in spring
Some really nice stretches on the Rochdale canal either side of Hebden Bridge.

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Post by JohnMac » Sun Aug 30, 2020 6:58 pm

Stairway to Heaven
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Post by huw.Y.WattfromWare » Mon Aug 31, 2020 8:38 pm

First day in the mountains, this year, and my hiking buddy only selects Carrauntuohill the hard way.
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O'Sheas Gully
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Looking down the gully to the highest lough in Ireland.
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Post by KateR » Mon Aug 31, 2020 11:11 pm

A short drive to Surfside from Houston, rented a house on stilts for a long weekend, lovely day on arrival, next day the Hurricane started rolling in, finally the walkway to the beach was littered with debris on the day we were leaving.

However an enjoyable time doing nothing but eating drinking and sitting outside for most of the time. Fortunately we only got the edge of the Hurricane but the storm surge was definitely washing lot's of things in and the high tide stayed making sure the beach had about 2/3 foot of sand to walk on. Must have seen some 50 Christmas trees in a very short walk on the beach the last day, goodness knows where they had all been, most if not all seemed burnt, so was thinking maybe been somewhere since Jan when there might have been a lot of fires on the beach for New Year.
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A Heron on a fishing trip,with the imposing Bass Rock in the background
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Post by Mala591 » Fri Sep 11, 2020 12:53 pm

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Where are all the dark satanic mills?
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Harvested crop field with Flamborough head
Lighthouse in the distance

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Post by CombatClaret » Fri Sep 11, 2020 3:14 pm

Hackney Marshes
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Post by JohnMac » Fri Sep 18, 2020 7:16 pm

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Been at Martin Mere today trying to concentrate on photographing Birds heads. Obviously the aim is to get the eye in sharp focus and the more practice I can get the better.

Anyhow I have yet to go through my card but wanted to share this greylag.
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Post by dandeclaret » Sun Sep 20, 2020 11:48 am

Juvenile kingfisher in Dublin

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