Great Tit. Penlee Battery

Great Tit.......Parus major

Sharpness

Still doing a little tweaking....still not totally happy with the sharpness.

Garden Robin

Latin Identification

Robin .....................Erithacus rubecula

Garden Blue Tit.

Blue Tit .................Parus caeruleus

Tested out the camera in the garden trying to emulate the settings I had before it broke down.

The wooded backdrop is always dark so fast speeds are generally out.

I am reasonably happy with the result considering the conditions..but I expect better in the future.

Blue Tit

Nikon Returns.

Well the good news is ...I have got the camera back. The bad news is the weather is awful so I will leave it till tomorrow to put it through it paces.

Woodland Flock

The garden had an influx of avian visitors around 13-00 hours.
Angie said she counted eight Blue Tits ( a record for the small garden) Great Tits, Long-tailed Tits and Greenfinches.

Two More.

Two more life ticks at Walmsley this evening ...Spotted Redshank and Wood Sandpiper brings the total now up to one hundred and fifty.

Peanuts and Jay

Jay ..........Garrulus glandarius

Nikon D300

Great news from Steve Rogers....... the Nikon is on the way back fully repaired.

Digiscoped

The Grey Heron was my first attempt at Digiscoping since the Camera went on the blink.

Perching Grey heron

Grey Heron ...............Ardea cinerea

Creeping Up.

Two more life ticks today .following on from the one last Sunday at the Porthgwarra seawatch.

Mediterranean Shearwater at Porthgwarra..Sunday 16th August 2009

Green Sandpiper at Walmsley. Sunday 23rd August 2009

Curlew Sandpiper on the Camel Trail (nr Padstow) 23rd August 2009

Both Sundays Derek Julian was our expert Guide.

Gulls in Flight

Powerful Gulls

Large Gulls

Great Black-backed Gull ..................Larus marinus

Lesser Black-backed Gull .................Larus fuscus


One of the easiest ways to differentiate between the GBBG and the LBBG is the smaller LBBG has yellow legs unlike the pink of the larger gull.

Carrion Crow

Carrion Crow...................Corvus corone corone

Blue Eyes

Magpie ..............Pica pica

Rotund Pinky

Long-tailed Tit .....................Aegithalos caudatus

L.T.T

Cross-eyed Butterfly.

Swimming Race at Swanpool

Mallard ....................Anus Platyrhynchos

Moorhen .................Gallinula chloropus

Dunnock on Gorse

Dunnock ..............Prunella modularis

Grey Heron

Grey Heron ...................Ardea cinerea

Kestrel

Kestrel ................Falco tinnunculus

Stonechat on Gorse

Stonechat ..............Saxicola torquata

Back to the Archives.

Camera Update

The camera is being sent away and I have been informed I can expect at least a four week wait before it is returned.What actually happened...I do not know, I am no wiser than yesterday really.

Broken Camera

I fear the worse with my Nikon D300. The gremlins have struck and it will not come on at all. My SDHC card has blown and it is looking bad for the electronics of the camera. As soon as I know anything I will post on the blog...until then ..fingers crossed.

Greenfinch on Gorse

Greenfinch .............Carduelis chloris

Flutterby

Crow

Carrion Crow .................Corvus corone corone

Blast from the Past

Great Tit ................Parus Major



Coal Tit .....................Parus ater



Greenfinch ....................Carduelis chloris



Blackcap ................Sylvia atricapilla

Chaffinch's are Back

Latin Identification

Chaffinch ......................Fringilla coelebs

Backgarden Regulars

Robin .....................Erithacus rubecula

Blue Tit..................Parus caeruleus

It is nice to see things are getting back to normal in the backyard garden.

Blackbird

Blackbird ................Turdus merula

Garden Robin

Robin.....Erithacus rubecula

Today's Robin taken in the garden