Moorhen feeding chick I don't regard myself as a wildlife photographer.
They are a specialist breed with expensive long lenses and lots of patience.
I have a few, assorted 20+ year old, lenses costing between £40 & £100 from eBay.
These photos are from my small garden.
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Moorhen chicks |
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Moorhens fighting for territory |
Male Emperor Dragonfly and Blue-tailed Damselfly, 2017 |
Female Emperor Dragonfly, 2017 |
Male Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly, 2017 |
Brown Hawker Dragonfly, 2017 |
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Grey Heron, Ardea cinerea Incidentally, this and most of the photos here, were taken on a 2008, Sony A850, with a 30+ year old Minolta 70-210mm lens. It is a terrible camera for photographing birds in flight. It has only 9 auto-focus points and shoots at 3 frames per second. Everything has to be preset manually. |
This heron had just caught this fish. |
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The heron hangs around when there are new moorhen chicks or ducklings, but I've never seen it eat one. One day I watched it catch and swallow two rats. My camera was manually pre-set for catching it in flight in a different place, so I didn't get any decent photos. This time I did a bit better. Then a few days later did it again. |
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In 2011 there were 9 eggs, 9 hatched. One cygnet disappeared in the first week, another after 3 weeks. |
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Canada Goose and goslings, 2015 |
Canada Goose with ducklings, 2019 While the goose was sitting on seven of her own eggs these ducklings hatched out nearby. I couldn't see any sign of the mother duck. It seemed that the ducklings couldn't either and. decided that the goose was their mother, the goose took the ducklings under her wing for the night. |
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Canada Goose with newly hatched goslings, 2019 A week or two after sheltering the ducklings the goose hatched her goslings. |
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An Ordinary Bumble Bee I don't have any specialist gear for taking close-ups. I just used my 70-210mm tele. lens at max. zoom and minimum focusing distance. |
I don't know which bee this is :-( |
A Hoverfly, (syrphid) |
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Green Shield Stink Bugs, (Palomena Prasina, family Pentatomid).
This week, (Sept.'12), I bought some extension tubes which allow me to get higher magnification for these flies and bugs.
My apologies if I am over-doing the Stink Bugs. I have a good selection of water birds in my garden, but I have very, very few small creepy-crawlies.
These stink bugs are great, they don't fly off, they hang around the same patch on my beans. I almost know them by name ;-)
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I was puzzled by the different stink bugs that I saw, then one day, as I waited for my kettle to boil, I looked at my beans and caught a stink bug moulting. A day later the new bright green bug had returned to black & green. |
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Hoverfly, (I think). |
Blue-tailed Damselfly, 2013 |
Common blue Damselfly, 2013 |
Damselfly, Banded Demoiselle, 2013 |
Red Damselfly, 2020 |
I nearly forgot about these fish photos taken in 2004 on a little 3Mp camera. Carp |
Carp, with neighbour who fished, 2004 |
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