Had a really enjoyable day watching a family of blackbirds being taught their 'lessons'. Poor mum and dad are now half the size of their babies, think they've been ran ragged.
Talking about how clever crows are for dipping their bread in water; father blackbird was doing the same. He took a piece of seeded bread that I'd added to a feeding bowl with few mealworms, and he moistened it in the bird's drinking dish before stuffing it into the open mouth of one of his babies.
@Liriodendron There was a long held belief that "female birds don't sing", where it turns out that in 71% of song birds to female birds do in fact sing, for all sorts of reasons.
It is interesting to see on Springwatch female lesser spotted woodpeckers fighting and defending territory. Their drumming is the equivalent of their song. They drum as loudly as they can to attract a mate, do an aggressive display-dance and fight to win the male. Lesser spot numbers have dropped 80% in recent years.
They are pretty rare now; about the size of a sparrow. They need standing dead trees to forage on.
I wish I had cameras like Springwatch. My trail cam became the favoured perching spot for a local robin so, apart from being liberally plastered in bird crap, I get a lot of videos like this and hundreds of videos of the tip of its tail bobbing around at the top of the frame.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
On the first episode there was a great segment on macro insect photgraphy. More like that, please!
Yes definitely. When I was seriously into photography I found macro the most satisfying. They now do an image-stabilised version of my favourite lens. I could be tempted
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I just had a watch of the macro segment. I'm not sure I'm quite ready (or rich enough) for the leap to all that extra tech, but I've been pondering setting up a small studio to make things easier. I'm not sure where I could do it as I don't have room to swing a caterpillar at the moment but it's still very inspiring to see the results you can get with better control of the lighting.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Buff tailed bees on Salvia.
Talking about how clever crows are for dipping their bread in water; father blackbird was doing the same. He took a piece of seeded bread that I'd added to a feeding bowl with few mealworms, and he moistened it in the bird's drinking dish before stuffing it into the open mouth of one of his babies.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
I think your Blackbirds might be Starlings.
Yes definitely. When I was seriously into photography I found macro the most satisfying. They now do an image-stabilised version of my favourite lens. I could be tempted
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful