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Badger Fest

One of the badgers was back this evening and was clearly much more interested in the peanuts and scraps than whether a human was lurking nearby, camera in hand. Neither of us were bothered by the light drizzle.

badger

badger

badger

badger

badger

badger

badger

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 200mm f/2.8L II USM lens.

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Night View and Badger

A short post tonight. I’ve spent the bulk of the evening watching for foxes and badgers. No luck at all on the former, but finally a brief encounter with the latter. I could hear them well enough, but they seemed intent on staying on the far side of the fence.

While I waiting I took a few shots of the view from the garden. This was hand-held at 1/60s, f/2/8 and ISO 10,000.

Night view

As for the badger… looking healthy, and putting on weight for winter 😉

badger

badger

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 200mm f/2.8L II USM lens.

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Always Back to the Rain

Torrential rain this morning. Really not very good for taking photos and these were all shot from the shelter of the car. And of course it was pretty dark too, but the cormorants didn’t seem to mind.

Cormorant in the rain

Cormorant in the rain

A pair of cormorants

Two cormorants in the rain

Cormorant taking off

Slow shutter (1/40s) of a cormorant taking off (in the rain)

Later in the day the sun finally emerged.

rainbow

Rainbow over St Laurence Church, Falmer

And so did a rat 😉

rat

Things look just a little brighter for next week.

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

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