wildlife

[ian mcdonald]

Sunny and hot yesterday and sunny and warm today. Due to boredom I am now chasing insects in the garden.



Rhododendron Wee Bee?



Often heard but not always seen in the open, a wren singing.



The bird cherry is in full flower.



I thought this "wasp" looked interesting, smaller than the garden wasp.



Bilberry in flower.

[johnw]

Ian - It's not Wee Bee or Too Bee, both a bit bi-coloured and slight pinched flowers from campylogynum genes.  Lovely soft pink colour, perhaps one of the later lepidote hybrids of Glendoick.  Snipe ring a bell.

john

[ian mcdonald]

Hello John, poor picture due to bright sun. The outer edges are darker and the flowers (not seen in photo) are pinched.

[ian mcdonald]

Another warm day. Several orange tip and holly blues. One decided to sit until I had a decent picture.



Holly blue.

[ashley]

Several orange tip and holly blues.

Here too.  Holly blues are very skittish when there's a camera around.
We have a nice (& expanding) area of lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis) in the grass but so far I've seen only a single (male) orange-tip around it.

[johnw]

Ian - Here's a shot of 'Wee Bee' for comparison.  The leaves seem to be a bit large with yours.

john

[ian mcdonald]

John, I,ve just looked at Stan de Pratos photos. of the Perth Show on the forum. He shows a picture of R. Ginny Gee. That might be my plant and I have the name mixed because they sound similar?

[johnw]

Right!  Here's my 'Ginny Gee', it only is pink for a short while then quickly fades to white.

johnw

[ian mcdonald]

A close up of the flowers showing the darker edge. They are already fading but still visited by bees.

[Yann]

half a mile from the house

[Yann]

I made several walks during nights, while we sleep many animals are hunting. The silence in the woods is priceless 

[Gail]

How wonderful to see the owl Yann. We have barn owls and tawnys around but never when I have my camera with me. My walk around the village emphasises how lucky I am not to be self-isolating in a flat somewhere...






And more wildlife (lots of people in the village are doing teddy bears in the windows to give children something to look out for, this one is ours).

[Leucogenes]

Wow... I'm speechless, Yann.  What a majestic bird.  I congratulate you for this great moment.

[Yann]

How wonderful to see the owl Yann. We have barn owls and tawnys around but never when I have my camera with me. My walk around the village emphasises how lucky I am not to be self-isolating in a flat somewhere...

Indeed, in our collective misfortune we're very lucky to live in the countryside.
Owls are active when sunset, not easy, even with a lens with good apertume, to photography. I use a 300m f2.8 equivalent 600mm in 35mm or my FZ1000 that let me reach 1400mm. But with no light, no miracle.

[Yann]

Wow... I'm speechless, Yann.  What a majestic bird.  I congratulate you for this great moment.

That's just modest shots, i don't have the skills of an animals photograhier nor the pro camera.