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by **earthmaiden** » June 27th, 2018, 6:26 pm

What a lovely picture Hickey! You can catch badgers running round the streets here if you go out at crack of dawn on dustbin day.They raid all the sacks left out - I have never had a camera handy when I've seen them.

by **hickybank** » July 2nd, 2018, 9:10 pm

Spent a couple of pleasant hours at Slimbridge yesterday
Bar headed Goose

This old fella below is a Clarkes Flamingo, he is 60 years old

Redshank chick

Avocet

by **Herbidacious** » July 2nd, 2018, 10:14 pm

Nice pics, Terry!

by **TeresaFoodie** » July 2nd, 2018, 11:58 pm

That 60 year old flamingo is not looking 60 years old! Go flamingo! :luv:

If I had to go out armed with a camera ahead of bin collection day to capture badgers I happily would, but not sure I would succeed. I think I'd be more likely to catch a fox round these parrrrrts, although haven't heard or seen one yet.

by **Herbidacious** » July 3rd, 2018, 10:42 am

Painted lady?

by **Herbidacious** » July 3rd, 2018, 10:44 am

by **hickybank** » July 3rd, 2018, 10:46 am

Correct, very pretty butterfly to

by **Herbidacious** » July 3rd, 2018, 10:48 am

Anyone know what this is?

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by **Herbidacious** » July 3rd, 2018, 10:50 am

I visited a zoo...

by **hickybank** » July 3rd, 2018, 11:34 am

Same as mine above it is a Bar Headed goose
It is from central Asia & is reputedly is the highest flying migratory bird in the wold as its migration path take it over the Himalayas

by **hickybank** » July 3rd, 2018, 2:23 pm

A couple more from Slimbridge

Avocet chick

by **Herbidacious** » July 3rd, 2018, 3:55 pm

I love your flamingo. I have some flamingo pics, but they weren't doing anything very interesting

Avocet chick is very sweet too.

by **Herbidacious** » July 4th, 2018, 4:05 pm

Any ideas about these ones, Terry, or anyone?

by **hickybank** » July 4th, 2018, 5:05 pm

Hi Herby, they are Greylag Geese (Anser anser)

by **Herbidacious** » July 6th, 2018, 2:40 pm

Thanks!

by **Herbidacious** » July 18th, 2018, 7:45 am

Ticket office this morning

by **PatsyMFagan** » July 18th, 2018, 11:58 am

View down the side of my house this morning .............. Through the Square window

by **Rainbow** » July 18th, 2018, 11:00 pm

Can I choose the Round window, please? :lol:

by **TeresaFoodie** » July 18th, 2018, 11:05 pm

Herbidacious wrote:Ticket office this morning

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First I thought 'Eh?' Then I thought 'Ah!' Is that a station cat or was it being bought a ticket??

by **Herbidacious** » July 20th, 2018, 7:50 am

I don't think she lives at the station, but the ticket person called her into the office shortly after I took the photo, so maybe they feed her. She is clearly well looked after and very friendly. I have worried, when she's on the platform, that she might one day get onto a train

by **hickybank** » July 22nd, 2018, 10:04 am

Our local Bridgwater Quayside festival

Yes thats Ann (the little one :lol:

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by **Herbidacious** » July 22nd, 2018, 5:17 pm

Looks fun, Terry.

by **Herbidacious** » July 22nd, 2018, 5:19 pm

In our garden in holiday apartment

by **hickybank** » July 23rd, 2018, 8:41 pm

Is it just me or do Herons look stupid

by **StokeySue** » July 23rd, 2018, 8:45 pm

I’ve always though they look evil, we had one used to stand by the back door at work (on the riverbank) and look at you, affronted, when you came out. :scared:

by **scullion** » July 23rd, 2018, 11:56 pm

hickybank wrote:Is it just me or do Herons look stupid

i hadn't noticed it before but looking closer at your avatar i see what you mean! (snigger).

by **hickybank** » July 24th, 2018, 7:41 am

HA,HA, very funny, I have just had a close look & yes you are right :lol:

It actually makes the Heron look quite intelligent

by **earthmaiden** » July 24th, 2018, 8:06 am

I like herons (except when they raid people's fish ponds). I think they look very graceful.

by **Herbidacious** » August 12th, 2018, 9:24 am

Some of the sunflowers I agaonized about before holiday. I have some almost brown ones too. Took these on the last day we had nice light. The pictures seem to look better/clearer/more in focus if you click on them.

by **Herbidacious** » September 28th, 2018, 2:33 pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-45678690

Canon 750d 'an old SLR'?! It was released in 2015!

by **hickybank** » September 28th, 2018, 3:08 pm

I still use my Canon 550D, works fine still although I would like a better one

by **Herbidacious** » September 28th, 2018, 5:36 pm

Indeed. My comment was really meant for you, Terry

I think the article was a kind of 'Oh I took this brilliant photos with a rubbish old camera'.

I just had a sensor clean for/on (?) my 750d today. I had acquired a blob. I think it's going to be my camera tomorrow in France. I 'got' (i.e. bought myself!) a 6D mkII for my 50th. (The birthday was otherwise uncelebrated pretty much, so I felt I deserved the extravagence, rightly or wrongly!) I am happy with it, but I think it sometimes best to wait until a new model has been around for a bit before buying, if you are thinking of upgrading. The 6D doesn't like my Sigma lens, and still no previews in windows if you shoot in RAW. It's also damned heavy so not a great holiday camera.

I am starting a 5 week macro course at the City Lit the week after next

by **hickybank** » September 28th, 2018, 6:02 pm

Interesting comments Rachel, whether I will change I do not know, not the best camera in the world but I know my way around it.
At the end of the day it is only as good as the lens
Here are a couple of shots I took a couple of weeks ago, not perfect but not bad on the move

by **Herbidacious** » September 28th, 2018, 6:15 pm

Very good indeed.

by **Zosherooney** » September 28th, 2018, 10:23 pm

Is the bottom one a buzzard Hicks ?

by **hickybank** » September 29th, 2018, 7:35 am

Hi Zosh, yes, we saw it on one of our walks, it was some distance away so it was a case of swing the camera up & hope

by **Herbidacious** » March 19th, 2019, 4:51 pm

I discovered the Palais-Royal while in Paris the other week, and was very drawn to these structures. According to Wiki the installation is 'highly controversial'... Les Deux Plateaux,1985–1986, Daniel Buren. People just couldn't seem to resist standing on them to pose, or hiding behind them.
The whole place was full of lines and shadows.

by **Herbidacious** » March 19th, 2019, 4:58 pm

Back in Normandy... the house is lamentably dark, but a shaft of light got into the sejour late afternoon, and I'd bought myself some flowers.

by **Herbidacious** » May 2nd, 2019, 11:48 am

Some interesting architecture in Aarhus (also seems to be a very cultured place.) But the weather was mostly terrible for photography. Took quite a few at the exhibition we went to but don't really have photos that give a flavour of the place.

by **earthmaiden** » May 2nd, 2019, 2:23 pm

Lovely - you do lead an interesting life!

by **Herbidacious** » May 2nd, 2019, 2:35 pm

Little oases of interestingness in a desert of tedium...

(Not really, but when it feels like it, I try to seek out something.)

by **Herbidacious** » June 16th, 2019, 7:01 pm

A few pics from today ( I won't post the one of the baby alpaca being born...)

by **Herbidacious** » June 28th, 2019, 12:45 pm

I bought three dahlias this year. One is now flowering. Not quite as good as the pics on the webt site, but still lovely.

A hoverfly accommodatingly landed on it while I was photographing it. And some other flowers. I actually don't have many more flowers than the ones shown here in the garden

by **Herbidacious** » June 28th, 2019, 12:48 pm

Two more... the anemone was from some ancient corms that I had a go with. About 20% came up... This is the only one that has got to flowering stage, although I have hopes for the others that came up. The other is the delphineum I bought in Sheffield last weekend.

by **aero280** » June 28th, 2019, 7:37 pm

Those pictures almost seem to show the UV that attracts insects!!

by **Herbidacious** » June 28th, 2019, 9:12 pm

The violet ones? No insects seemed that interested in them though.

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