Show Your Snaps...February 20, 2023

Hi Digirame,

Excellent pictures of your Wildlife, love photo 2, squirrel posing for you.

My Guess for photo 9 is a Gadwall.

The one below is a male and I think yours is too.

Digirame wrote:

Here's a mixture of wildlife photos I took in last month in January. Despite the cold rainy and cloudy weather I managed to get outdoors to take pictures.

Photo No. 10 - Those wood ducks were so afraid. On another sunny day, I finally got a lot closer, but not this time.

Dig,

I loved this picture. I just imagine the pickup lines running through the head of the trailing duck.

"Hey baby, If you ever get tired of "normal" and are looking for a bad boy, I got a bigger car than he does."

Steve Thomas

Good morning

02/21/23

Center weighted averaging and 5600K

Steve Thomas

Hi stevet1,

Very Nice.

Hi all,

More from the Shropshire Union Canal.

I'm guessing this would of been a warehouse along the Canal and now it's living accommodation. (Aperture f/8 ~~ (SS): 1/100 ~~ ISO 100 ~~ EC: +0.33 ~~ PASM Mode: Aperture Priority ~~ Metering: Evaluative ~~ Focus Type: One Shot ~~ FL: 23mm ~~ Lens: Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM ~~ Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

Pine cones. (Aperture f/7.1 ~~ (SS): 1/320 ~~ ISO 800 ~~ EC: 0 ~~ PASM Mode: Manual ~~ Metering: Partial ~~ Focus Type: One Shot ~~ FL: 300mm ~~ Lens: Tamron SP 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD ~~ Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

Didn'e expect this whilst staying on a Marina, It's an Oyster catcher. There ain't no Oysters around here mate.   (Aperture f/7.1 ~~ (SS): 1/500 ~~ ISO 1000 ~~ EC: 0 ~~ PASM Mode: Custom ~~ Metering: Partial ~~ Focus Type: AI Servo ~~ FL: 300mm ~~ Lens: Tamron SP 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD ~~ Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

First Crocus of the season for me. (Aperture f/9 ~~ (SS): 1/60 ~~ ISO 320 ~~ EC: 0 ~~ PASM Mode: Manual ~~ Metering: Evaluative ~~ Focus Type: One Shot ~~ FL: 300mm ~~ Lens: Tamron SP 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD ~~ Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

Digi you know your wood duck luck and photos always make me jealous. Mocha the whole series is great as well but love the Oyster Catcher.

I found some Gadwalls myself and thanks to the tracking of the R7 I didn't miss the flight shot when they flushed and my shutter speed was still down at 1/400. Lucky me. And an Eagle that landed in the same tree on two different days. Unfortunately our crazy all over the place weather still has migration at a standstill.

I say, this is traffic. I try to keep Miso inside when this happens because you would see deers running in all directions. I think Miso can run at 20 mph, I mean he’s flying!

I put two separate piles to mitigate the fights because they’re ready to fight for one grain of food at this time of the year. They use only their trails because otherwise, they are having a hard time to move with all that snow. Their trails are so densely packed that I can walk pretty far following them even without snow shoes.

Deers arriving…

… and then they’re fighting…

Oh deer.  You've got lots of friends.

Don

benjilafouine wrote:

I say, this is traffic. I try to keep Miso inside when this happens because you would see deers running in all directions. I think Miso can run at 20 mph, I mean he’s flying!

I put two separate piles to mitigate the fights because they’re ready to fight for one grain of food at this time of the year. They use only their trails because otherwise, they are having a hard time to move with all that snow. Their trails are so densely packed that I can walk pretty far following them even without snow shoes.

Deers arriving…

… and then they’re fighting…

Benji. I can hear misco going crazy clear down here in Ohio wanting to play with it's tall friends lol. I do the same for our deer friends when the weather turns bad and it's hard for them to fend for themselves. Fortunately this year our biggest snow so far has been a whopping 3 inches. Our weather is totally nuts we have had days of what is considered normally warm of 30f and 70f in the same week and that has been cycling for the last 4 weeks. I can't remember a winter this mild ever where I live .

Rocket13 wrote:

benjilafouine wrote:

I say, this is traffic. I try to keep Miso inside when this happens because you would see deers running in all directions. I think Miso can run at 20 mph, I mean he’s flying!

I put two separate piles to mitigate the fights because they’re ready to fight for one grain of food at this time of the year. They use only their trails because otherwise, they are having a hard time to move with all that snow. Their trails are so densely packed that I can walk pretty far following them even without snow shoes.

Deers arriving…

… and then they’re fighting…

Benji. I can hear misco going crazy clear down here in Ohio wanting to play with it's tall friends lol. I do the same for our deer friends when the weather turns bad and it's hard for them to fend for themselves. Fortunately this year our biggest snow so far has been a whopping 3 inches. Our weather is totally nuts we have had days of what is considered normally warm of 30f and 70f in the same week and that has been cycling for the last 4 weeks. I can't remember a winter this mild ever where I live .

Same thing here: atypical winter, very warm, but since we are a bit more north, we’ve had lots of snow. However, most lakes and rivers are dangerous. Some lake and rivers ice crossings (cars, snowmobiles and ATVs) remained closed this year. Last time it was almost that warm was in 2017, but the trend seems to be accelerating. While they want to shove electric cars at us, several countries (including US, Australia, China and a bunch of others) are producing most of their electricity with fossil fuels. In Quebec, we’re the exception: almost all of our electricity is hydroelectric. However, we don’t have enough to to power 3 millions electric cars without doing some serious work with our rivers up north and that can take 15-20 years to accomplish, provided that you have the human workforce, which we are short of.

Go figure.

Aww yes EVs, I see the pros, but also not blind to the cons. Here in the US our electric grid is woefully out dated and electric cost are always soaring. Trading one cost for another seems like a wash as far as the consumer goes. I also know so many that can't afford a good used gas car, I have no idea how they would afford a new EV. Maybe they will come up with some sort of rental system to help move people to them. I myself would like to see more fast light rail. I would gladly ride a train to my work which is a 45 minute drive by car. Just yesterday I had to take my wife to her neruologist for her checkup, 90 minute drive one way . How great would it have been to jump on a train then grab a taxi or Uber from a station near the hospital ? Well to get back on subject at least we will be able to get photos soon of the new futuristic looking vehicles .