Permission to add my name to the list of those who are congratulating the photographer. Really nice picture and thank you for sharing it with us folk who just wish.... :) :)

Regards
John

Spooky because hidden by the mist in my picture is the actual headland that your location is named after!

Portland Bill in Dorset :)

I would have loved to have been able to capture these birds and at the very least tried to get them some medical attention. Sadly they do not have a 'Flying Doctor' or any health type insurance :(

:thumbup: Thank you very much

No, as per usual I have a friend that fetches them round for me to see. The larger one is a South American owl which is only about eleven weeks old.

I often talk about how I shoot from behind my double glazed patio door... If you look right into that owl's eyes you will clearly see the glass door that I am behind :)

The second owl is the tiny Little Owl ans that is the one I posted images of a month or so ago as it was perched on my leg. That one is still only about seven inches tall :)

Here are the latest owl visitors that have come out to my back garden.

There are more shots of this on my other threads

Was your spot meter aimed to the right side of that feeder as that area seems to have come out very well?

Nice capture of that bee in flight which looks more in focus?

Thanks for sharing the experience
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That was a fair sized vessel but I cannot see it going on any type of cruise for the next week or three :)

Are they going to try and recover that wreckage or at least carry out some scientific studies?

How long before souvenir hunters strip away all that rusting metal?

That second picture looks too over cooked and yet the first one looks slightly soft.

I really like pictures of animals in the wild and thank you for sharing those images.

What do you mean by 'Prize winning Foxes'?

It now looks like Mr Armstrong's whole career is about to be removed from the history books and he could even be ordered to return ALL prize monies and awards.

Beautiful, delicate insects and thank you again for sharing your experiences

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I would not worry too much about that until we get proficient at getting close to these bees. Tayco has done exceeding well and got that distance perfect for the shot she wanted.

I am still looking at these pictures as they appear to be exactly what was wanted and to me that is what photography is all about.

If we start using shutter speeds of 1/4000th of a second we are really going to test our photographic skills at getting a balance between available light, depth of field and ISO.

The most AMAZING images of frozen humming bird wings that I have seen were shot with a shutter speed that I am guesstimating to be approximately 1/250th of a second. My frozen wing shot of that flying bumble bee was 1/60th of a second. It is how it should be and each to their own regarding what we want but if you go for these fast shutter speeds just be aware of exposure settings as noise might become your biggest enemy.

At least you folks from across the pond have something I believe is called the 'sun' and that bright object will help when it comes to faster shutter settings??

Tayco
Couldn't you have put a plaster cast on that poor bee's wing and perhaps give it bed rest until the wing had mended? :thumbup: ;)

Instead it ended up as wasp dessert :(

My thoughts on this are that if you want to take shots of butterflies in the UK or in particular, England then it will be a very nice challenge. I cannot get out to 'chase' these beautiful insects so I do my very best to attract them to 'The Mountain' I have large areas of garden dedicated to wildlife and no end of stinging nettles which are the peacock's favourite food, but in ten years I have not seen one. I spend all day looking out of my patio window and if I were to see one that looked like it was going to settle then I would be like a rat up a drain pipe.

This species is not classed as rare, I was speaking to someone yesterday that saw fifteen and although they were intent of annoying me by taking lots of snaps.... They failed miserably to take a single one. Having said that I have seen some beautiful peacock pictures taken in the UK and boy do I envy those folks lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.

My thoughts are that we do have butterflies, getting shots with the 300mm zoom should be fairly straight forward, but getting down and dirty, getting close to them to get the detail that I for one really like seeing is not going to be easy unless.....

Unless we go to places like this:

http://www.ottersandbutterflies.co.uk/

Just twenty miles away but might just as well be on the Moon :(

If you ever get down to the South-West coast of England then PLEASE feel free to pop in for a tea (or coffee) :)

Best wishes
John

I imagine the RN did use it as a taxi!!! The issue was NOT off topic, and I hope the info. was useful.
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I thoroughly appreciated all the info and totally agree with the constructive observations that have been put forward

Thank you all for the updates :)

Let's see if today I can type a little quicker

I think your insect is this

http://bugguide.net/node/view/5345

Monobia quadridens - Four-toothed Mason Wasp