The Year In Pictures 2013

[Penfold]

Although it could have happened to anyone, Del, you always manage to make me laugh with the way you tell it. You really must write a book about your life; I would definitely buy a copy!

I took my mum to the Wetlands Trust today, so I couldn't take as many pics as I would normally have done. However, here are the ones I did manage to get.

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[Tonyblack]

Those are great, Penners! Love the nuthatch and that Bewick swan getting all flustered!

[Catch-up]

Love that little blue bird on the feeder!

[Del]

Brilliant as always Penners. You have a wonderful eye.

[Batty]

Brilliant as always Penners. You have a wonderful eye.

Only the one???

[cheery_j.]

Love that little blue bird on the feeder!

This one?


They're cool - we have a pair of them here and we often see them at the feeder. They can walk head first down trees (makes them easy to recognize for birdwatching beginners ).

[Tonyblack]

That's the nuthatch.

[Catch-up]

It's really beautiful. Lucky you to have them at your feeder!

[Penfold]

Unfortunately its not my feeder, it's set up at the wetlands trust in the woodlands area. I used to have a bird feeder and table in the garden until the next door nightmares brought in a bird murdering moggy. Now putting food out for the birds here is tantamount to baiting the trap.

(Actually, I do love cats and certainly can't blame the cats for just doing what comes naturally to them. )

[Who's Wee Dug]

Love the photo's and the nuthatch is that the little bird that hops about with a painful grimace due to the size of it's nuts.

[Who's Wee Dug]

I was up early this morning took these two through the window.



This I think I zoomed in too much and it shows the buildings to be a bit grainy, but that is a bit of mist above the trees taken 10 minutes later.

[Penfold]

Very nice Dug. Zooming in shouldn't affect the graininess, unless you are cropping or increasing the exposure levels in post processing. It might be your camera is using a high ISO setting if you are shooting in auto mode. If you set the max ISO to the 400 mark, you should be able to eliminate much of the noise, or shoot on a slow shutter speed with the camera braced.

We're expecting some snow down here tomorrow so I might try and get a shot or two before it gets walked over (assuming it settles, that is, and I can pull myself out of my nice warm bed).

[Who's Wee Dug]

Penners it a bridge camera not a DSLR if I have the name right ,there is only zoom and a couple of other bits you can do I cropped the 2nd one and it was shot in auto mode maybe it was just the light with the mist that made it look that way.

Thanks for the info anyway.

[Bouncy Castle]

Dug, they're lovely.

There was a morning here in Sydenham, about a couple of weeks ago. Amazing red sky, with silver/grey clouds breaking it up. Was amazing.

I'm just sad that I didn't have a camera (no, I don't have one on my phone).

I actually saw a young lad, with the headphones plugged into his ears, and there he was on the High Street, putting his phone up to take a pic.

Hope for the younger generation yet!!

[Conforumist]

Nice ones Dug!
God still paints the best pics!