I am a geologist, so I like shiny rocks and crystals! Although having been a professional geologist for overthirty years, I didn’t really start collecting fossils and crystals until very recently, after a chance visit to a mineral shop in Warsaw. Once the bug had bitten, I needed to get out in to the field […]
Intervalometer
The intervalometer is a great bit of kit that enables you to trip the shutter release wirelessly, or set up repeated shots at set intervals. I have used this shutter release to remotely shoot birds on the bird feeder, suing a tripod. I have also used the intervalometer to take multiple shots of the milky […]
Reptiles
The floral diversity and associated insect and small mammal populations make our terrain a great location for reptiles. We see plenty of snakes, which are dominated by yellow-collared grass snakes and great western whipsnakes (up to 1.5m). We also commonly see adders, one of which bit our dog a few years back. The first snake […]
Charlie the Red Deer
We were very surprised to see this fellow turn up on the trail cam one night. He was stood looking over the fence in to the garden. I showed the picture to Christian, the local vet, who is a keen naturalist, who told me he “knew this deer”. I said,”yes, it’s a red deer”. He […]
Little Owls Visiting The Nest Box
We have had Little Owls nesting in the bedroom roof-space for several years. In 2019 we decided to install a nest box to try and encourage them to move out. They make so much noise feeding in the middle of the night! Very soon we had a pair investigating the box. They seemed to like […]
Barn Owl Chicks Being Fed
In 2019 we installed our first Barn Owl nest box. It was a tremendous success! Six chicks hatched and kept the parents very busy with feeding. During the early days the parents were bringing in 25-30 voles every night. The adult would feed the first chick to grab the food. It would appear that the […]
Cloudy Timelapse
Timelapse has always intrigued me. I assumed it must be really difficult and time consuming! I was quite surprised when I eventually tried it and found it was quite straight forward, but like all things, it is finding the right thing to capture. This was my first attempt. Hopefully there will be more to come. […]
Blue Tits
These are three shots we took of the a blue tit on the feeder. rather than use a big expensive telephoto we set up the DSLR with the kit 55-250mm lens on a tripod. With plenty of light, we were able to set the f stop pretty high, to give us a good depth of […]