It was heavily overcast this morning, and at lunchtime there was a touch of rain to add to the gloom. The kind of day when it might make more sense to put the camera away and read a book. I didn’t, and this morning came across a rabbit and a rat together at the edge of the pond. The photo isn’t up to much, but it’s an unusual pairing.

The rest are more shots of various rats, the mainstay of the local wildlife for now.

For those interested the the technicalities of getting shots at this time of year (and through the winter), the ISO settings of the four shots are 1000, 1600, 2500, 2500.

And for those interested in website issues I’d just like to offer a word of thanks to the support team at Photocrati. I’d encountered a problem on my Falmer Rats album. The thumbnails weren’t launching the photo. I attributed this to a combination of upgrades (the Photocrati theme, which is the engine for this part of site, and the Nextgen gallery which I use for the larger albums). I got in touch with them and received fantastic support. They investigated the site and found and fixed the problem. The upgrades had been fine, and it wasn’t a plug-in conflict either. I’d managed to tweak a setting into something logically incoherent, so it was down to user error. I notified the problem yesterday evening, and by the middle of today the site was running perfectly again. Can’t really say better than that, and so a big thank you to Drew and the Photocrati team. Great service.

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