Just one photo today… taken in the garden. This beautiful peregrine cleared the skies as it flew overhead.
Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
Just one photo today… taken in the garden. This beautiful peregrine cleared the skies as it flew overhead.
Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
I’ll come to the video in a moment, but first some photos of one of the three buzzards that flew over the garden this morning. We do see them occasionally up here, but it’s a long time since I’ve seen three together (though only two feature in these photos, and I failed to get a group shot).
This is the first buzzard (which was closely followed by a second one). It flew across the rear of the garden, so I only had a few moments to get a photo.
The third of the buzzards circled overhead for a while. These are two of the better photos. Both are hefty crops.
Now to the video. It’s a series of clips taken over the past two nights via the garden trail camera. The sequences include two clips of a badger, plus the three most regular fox visitors. Pretty you know (she’s by far the smaller of the group). There’s a large healthy male (Nicked Ear) who has been around for some time. The third fox has shown up up several times recently. He appears to have a mangey brush, though the rest of him doesn’t look too bad for now.
Finally, a photo of Pretty taken a couple of hours ago.
Camera note: all buzzard photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The fox was photographed with the EF 100mm f/2.8L macro IS USM lens. Video via the Bushnell Trophy HD.
It was almost a beutiful day today. There was lots of sunshine, marred only by a few sharp showers that passed over quickly (though I did manage to get caught in one at lunchtime). The morning though was dry, and bright.
Down at Falmer Pond, the greylags were honking, and I watched pair come in to land on the water.

Note the rather dapper duck in the background. He’s the Muscovy drake, and a fine looking duck if ever there was one. He’s taken a fancy to the park bench and commandeers it most mornings.
Meanwhile the female Muscovy prefers the leafy fringes around the church. Here she is on the wall by the entrance.
She then headed towards the ivy and eventually disappeared through the hedge into a neighbouring garden.
One more of the drake. A face like this simply demands a portrait.
That’s what I call a dapper duck!
Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
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