Juvenile Pied Wagtail.

I went to a camera event the other day and came to the conclusion that my computer, monitor, calibration of monitor, software, printer and profile could be improved.  Luckily, I took no money.  My camera is alright though...

Here is one of 'my' juvenile Pied Wagtails for you. 

1/500 sec, F7.1, ISO 400 

More passerine pics here..

Fishing Gull

Specifically a Juvenile Black-headed Gull learning it's trade.  There are a few more of these to come.  Probably.

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Hummingbird Hawkmoth

Lifer for me today but in the form of a moth.  No ordinary moth though, check this little cracker out!

Sanderling

Sanderlings are pretty nice anytime of year, but the plumage on this one is all over the place and all the better for it.  Found nervously mixing with the Turnstones at Walcott this evening.

Three peregrines!

Norwich Cathedral Peregrines for you again, but this time three in the one shot!

Blackbird post-sunbathing

Went back to see the Peregrines yesterday evening and took loads of pictures.  Saw a close quarters attempted kill by one of the juveniles which was pretty cool , so here is a photo of my garden's female blackbird after a short session of sunbathing. This was a brilliant diversion from the family of Jays not indulging themselves in the bird saucepan bath when the camera was actually present.  F-stop could have been better, but all on M...

Norwich Peregrines

A few snaps of the Peregrines at Norwich Cathedral.  Evening shots so the light is either rubbish or brilliant. Will return and improve...

Closer to nature?

So you have lots of lenses.  They often come in a box and for day to day use boxes are rubbish.  What you want is a lens case type of thing that gives your precious glass some protection from knocks and water and stuff like that.  Off you go to your local camera dealer and you shell out £15-£50 for a lens case, one for each lens.  The cost soon mounts up, eh?. This kind of thing...

...obviously a screen dump, but you know what I mean.

But what if  you don't want to pay these silly prices?  What if you could find something that was designed to do something else perhaps, but could still do the job, at a fraction of the price and arguably just as well.   Well I've been wondering about this for some time and keeping my eyes peeled in all the wrong places.  And guess what I ran into the other day when looking for german sausages in a cut-price supermarket? 

Yeah, baby. Er, baby bottle feeder things.  God only knows why munchkins need such things, but it would seem that they are vitally important.  And only £7.49 for two!  FOR TWO OF THEM!  The question is dear reader, do they look like anything you might need if  you had lots of lenses to protect?

Of course they do.

These things will hold a 300mm lens comfortably, 150mm with the hood up is also nice and snug. 50mm with hood up and a cloth to pad it out?  Sorted.   They zip up and have a velcro handle and are padded, natch.  I have many.  They work, they are cheap and I will never buy a lens case again.  I just wish that there was a market for enormo-babies that needed huge bottles about the size of a 500mm lens.

Either way, get yourself to Aldi.  

You owe me one.

Oh yeah, on the box it says 'closer to nature'.  How apposite.

Edit.  When I first found them they were on some Thursday offer for a fiver, but now at £7.49.  And here is the link to too.

An angry gull

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Burnham Market Poppy Fields

Poppies in rapeseed, near Burnham Market, July 2013.

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You sho' is ugly...

Salthouse duckpond was being raided this afternoon.  All it was getting was tiddlers, but lots of tiddlers it got.  There were some Germans there, they were waffling on about stuff in german but I did hear the word 'lens'.  Probably...

Not sure where the watermark thingy went on this...

Juvenile Black Redstart

Yes, this is a very similar picture to the one posted yesterday...

Black Redstart