A quick catch up on the week

It's been a quiet week here fox-wise (apart from Monday), mainly due to plenty of wind and rain. Most nights I've resorted to photographing the newts (which are quite active at the moment… I saw three tonight), and the occasional frog.

Underwater umbrella?

Big foot?

There are several more new newt shots in the Amphibians album.

There was a brief respite in the unremitting gloom yesterday. That brought out some of the more familiar birds:

A very satisfied looking crow

And a shy robin
If you want to see a bold robin, take a look over here!

There was one surprise this week. I was out in the drizzle today, the light was terrible, but high in one of the trees I noticed a pair of birds which weren't familiar. Getting anything like a decent shot was tricky. Bad light and rain don't make things easy, but when there's no direct line of sight to the bird either… This was taken with the aperture wide open, and at ISO 1600. That gave me a reasonable shutter speed. It's not a great shot, but it is the first I've managed of a redwing. 🙂 More about shooting at high ISO settings in this excellent tutorial. I've clearly got some way to go yet!

Redwing

On a completely different note you may have noticed some slight changes to the blog layout and other parts of the My Opera community site. Full details of the changes are detailed in the change log.

Camera note: birds photographed with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens; frog with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM; and the newt with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro + 44mm extension tube.

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This Post Has 6 Comments

  1. Words

    10 Jan 2008

    I couldn't actually see what I was photographing with the redwing. Well I could see a 'bird', and enough to focus and to know I'd not seen it before, but that was about it.

  2. SittingFox

    10 Jan 2008

    🙂

    Great shot of the frog with its umbrella! I like the redwing picture too. Beautiful birds, often very tricky to approach though.

  3. Ukwildlife

    10 Jan 2008

    Thats a clear shot for a redwing. best Ive managed is a distant image – the bird is about 30pixels across! Oh and a rear end of one lol

    As for newts and frogs you lucky there active at this time of year. I shall investigate my pond one day next week…

  4. Ukwildlife

    11 Jan 2008

    same with the photo i took, except it was 'reaer of a bird' the only reason I IDed at all was the red patch at the base of the wing lol 😀

  5. Flying Red Fox Blog

    11 Jan 2008

    The frog with the unbrella:lol: very good! Its been a strange wet week and not that good for photography except for Monday and Tuesday afernoon where i went to Arundel, hopefully its nicer for the weekend.:)

  6. Words

    11 Jan 2008

    Mark, fingers crossed for the weekend. The forecast is a bit patchy and I have no hopes at all for today (Friday) 🙁

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