A Sunday Mixture

By Paul Cecil | Published February 11, 2008

Another bright, warm day today. I'm not sure if this means we've already had winter or whether we've some cold shocks ahead, but I did see two butterflies today. Both refused to keep still, so you'll have to take my word for the fact that one was white, and the other yellow. I wasn't close enough to get more of an i.d., but a nice surprise.

The sight of the butterflies got me thinking. If they're around, we should be seeing more insect life. So I plugged the extension tubes on the end of the 100-400 lens and started hunting. I did come across two ladybirds, but ended up photographing a small feather on a path.

And a leaf

And my first hoverfly of the year

The gulls were active too (when are they not?), but I think this is probably the first time I photographed a gull's tongue.

No sighting of foxes this evening, though we did have a late visit last night. The wood mouse did put in an appearance though.

Camera note: Feather, leaf and hoverfly taken with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens plus extension tubes; the gull was taken with the same lens but with the Kenko Teleplus 1.4x Pro 300 DG teleconverter. For the photos of the mouse I used the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens.

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14 Comments

  1. chthoniid February 11, 2008 at 1:02 am #

    It's a nice collection :up:

  2. cakkleberrylane February 11, 2008 at 1:02 am #

    Very nice, indeed. I was very interested to see the gull's tongue! I don't think I've ever seen one before!

  3. ALLY_G February 11, 2008 at 4:02 am #

    It seems, spring is already there. 🙂
    Again: I love the photos of the wood mouse. :up: It seems, you are a good dompteur. 😀

  4. Words February 11, 2008 at 7:02 am #

    Lois, it was a surprise to me too. I shudder to think what it's eating though :yuck:

  5. Words February 11, 2008 at 7:02 am #

    Elke! Crazy weather, but I love the clear skies. And yes, we have very well trained mice 😀

  6. Words February 11, 2008 at 7:02 am #

    Thanks Brendan :cheers:

  7. SittingFox February 11, 2008 at 10:02 am #

    Feather on path – great! Very, very nice.

  8. sprogger February 12, 2008 at 1:02 am #

    cool leaf, look like i could reach out and touch it

  9. Words February 12, 2008 at 7:02 am #

    Thanks Sprogger!

  10. Words February 12, 2008 at 7:02 am #

    Thanks Adele.

  11. Flying Red Fox Blog February 12, 2008 at 3:02 pm #

    Brilliant pics:D This lovelly weather is really nice compared with last month!

  12. Words February 12, 2008 at 6:02 pm #

    Mark, I'm certainly enjoying the good weather, though I didn't see any of it today (except through windows).

  13. ALLY_G February 15, 2008 at 2:02 pm #

    😀 :up:

  14. Words February 16, 2008 at 12:02 am #

    :cheers: