Tonight we are supposedly seeing a very rare moon as it passes low in the sky. I doubt very much that Southern England is the best place to see anything and to be honest the moon looks very much as it usually does. It is low (well I photographed soon after moon rise so it would be low), but because of this it does pick up a good reddish-orange glow from the atmosphere. Both these shots will expand quite a bit if you click on them.
As for the day, the mini heatwave is continuing. There are swifts overhead and they always present a nice challenge in rapid contortionism as you follow them through the lens on their fast and erratic flight. A couple of shots from yesterday.
And one from today.
The final shot is a cute one of two sleepy herring gull chicks settling down for a nap.
Camera note: Wildlife photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 400mm f/5.6L USM lens. The honey moon taken with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.
derwandersmann
14 Jun 2014Nice shots, Words … I can’t single one out.
Words
15 Jun 2014Thanks dW! I’m most taken with the sleepy gulls.
Darko
14 Jun 2014Why it was a very rare moon? Yesterday I was reading about having a full moon on Friday the 13th is a very rare occasion but that’s just a superstition.
Nice photos of swifts!
Words
15 Jun 2014Darko, I’m not really sure why it’s so rare. Supposedly there hasn’t been one like it for almost 100 years, but the papers were very sketchy. I think it’s because it sat so low in the sky so the reflected light from the sun was unusual. But I don’t really know. Europe wasn’t the best place to see whatever it was that was special.
Darko
18 Jun 2014Maybe it is about a very low tide. We were having one that I have never seen before in Vancouver. It was so low, we walked about 100m from the sea wall and I made some photos in the area where water is about 3m deep in a “normal” day o_O
Words
20 Jun 2014Darko, a low tide makes sense. I think the ‘event’ was how low the moon was which would presumably affect the tides.