Look away now! 29 Sept 2012

If you don't like Hairy Creepy Crawlies

Look away Now!

We have a visitor who decided to set up home outside our back door, She/he has made a good job of his temporary home and seem s to be having a lot of success feeding himself.

Canon EOS 7d, EF 100 - 400mm, L Lens
1/2000 @f 6.3, iso 1600, 400mm

It's a common, Garden Spider, but I do like the patterning on its back. it arrived a couple of days ago and seem settled in for a while.  it'll keep the flying nuisances down for a while.

Thornton Reservoir

My movement is a bit restricted at the moment and the few times I've been able to get out There hasn't been a lot of wildlife to see. So I thought you might enjoy this sequence shot at Thornton water a while ago.

Canon EOS 7d, EF 100 - 400 L lens
1/400 @ 6.3, iso1600, 400mm

Watermead Park - 1 Sept 2012

As usual there wasn't much birdlife in evidence at the park, but I got to the "hole in the wall" hide just as this cormorant surfaced. I'm not sure what it has caught, but it seems to have quite a struggle swallowing it,

They were all taken on the same settings, using the Canon 7d with my ef 100 - 400mm lens at it's maximum length. The settings were: 1/1600 @ 6.3, iso 1600.
Sorry the quality isn't as good as I'd like, The light wasn't the best and I didn't have time for the niceties. I would have liked to drop the iso to 800 but didn't want to miss the action.