Arrived at a local country park earlier and this (? Buzzard) dropped a squirrel right in front of the car! 

 

My camera was in the boot sadly so had to make do with Dashcam footage 

 

Sorry to report the squirrel didn't make it although a real privilege to see up close........... 

 

 

 

 

Edited 24 August, 20241 yr by pinkpanther
Typo!

26 minutes ago, pinkpanther said:

(? Buzzard) 

 

Yeah, common Buzzard 👍

 

My Brother had a pair many years ago (pair for only a short time, as the somewhat bad tempered female killed the male).

 

Gaz

 

7 minutes ago, Gaz said:

 

Yeah, common Buzzard 👍

 

My Brother had a pair many years ago (pair for only a short time, as the somewhat bad tempered female killed the male).

 

Gaz

 

😳

After the Buzzard encounter it turned in to a lovely evening.......... 

 

3 hours ago, pinkpanther said:

Arrived at a local country park earlier and this (? Buzzard) dropped a squirrel right in front of the car! 

 

My camera was in the boot sadly so had to make do with Dashcam footage 

 

Sorry to report the squirrel didn't make it although a real privilege to see up close........... 

 

 

 

 

 

Occasionally we get a red kite take a bird in flight and land in our back garden to devour its catch, my son has taken photos of it on a number of occasions, and we get left with after that is a load of feathers, which it plucks from its kill.

Turns out insects are much more difficult to photograph than Birds😬

 

 

 

 

 

He he...   Snap!!

 

Sunset from a couple of nights ago down in Devon.

 

 

 

We had a Sparrowhawk join us for dinner yesterday.  We had pizza, he had starling:

 

 

Phone on full zoom - didn't want to disturb him.  Got a video too, but it's a bit grisly.

 

G

Tonight's sunset.............

 

 

Glorious sky for a fleeting moment this evening. 

 

Was bucketing it down as I snapped the photo with my phone................ 

 

 

Stan and ollie😁

5 minutes ago, Mickvrs220 said:

Stan and ollie😁

 

Great their little pet dog is there as well.

Laughing Gravy. 

15 minutes ago, Mickvrs220 said:

Stan and ollie😁

"Enjoying" the weather in Ulverston, I see

Some years back there was (and maybe still is) a superb seafood restaurant right on the coast on the eastern side near Ulverston.  If I can recall the name or look it up I'll post it.

Found it: https://thebayhorsehotel.co.uk/

 

Edited 4 September, 20241 yr by MikeTheThinker

I used to work for a company based in Ulverston and would have to travel up on a regular basis either taking customers up for a factory visit or to attend all sorts of meetings (I remember there is or used to be a crystal glass works there and I have been around there and watched the craftsmen create some beautiful crystal dishes etc. The hotel of choice the company used was the Swan, a few miles out of Ulverston at Newby Bridge, lovely place, top-notch food.

 

The Swan Hotel And Spa | Tranquil Luxury | Newby Bridge

Flippin plane and a satellite gatecrashing my astrophotography  

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Edited 5 September, 20241 yr by Lee01

Glorious evening............. 

 

Twilight, looking over towards the end of the South Downs:

 

 

I quite like this photo, even though I appreciate its quality isn't all that.  The Sun had just gone, the Moon just up, lovely pinky orange hues over the Downs and the sky's blue was splendid.  A case of the camera not quite being able to capture what the eye could behold I'm afraid.

 

Gaz

Came into the garden last night trying to catch a goldfinch ,taken through window with a big lense so a tad grainy ,fantastic to see it tho young male i think .

Great shots, Mick

5 hours ago, Lee01 said:

Great shots, Mick

 

+1 👍

 

Micks one's obviously more photogenic.  Mine comes through somewhat akin to the Millennium Falcon making the jump to light speed 🙄

 

We only had one sunflower this year, the rest were eaten by slugs and snails.  It's just made it above our 6' garden wall, so can watch the Sun go down:

 

 

Gaz

I managed to grow one last year gaz and a squirrel came along bit the head off and buggered off with it🤬

Visited Cragside today............. 

 

 

 

Camera phone shot of Stewart on the roof. Before and after. Removed the wires and the edge of the telegraph pole down the right side using A.I. in Adobe Lightroom. Left the wire shadow on the fascia board though.🤣

 

 

Edited 18 September, 20241 yr by B33fy

@B33fy Impressive, but it also left the shadow of the left hand wire on the wall as well as totally changing the exposure and colour of everything else in the photo.