Red-legged Grasshopper
… sitting on flowers of Tansey
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 163.85mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
What Woolly Bears Become
Hairy Legs
The ubiquitous wooly bear caterpillars – those furry brown creatures with a black head and tail – eventually turn into gorgeous brown moths like this fellow crawling around in the grass recently. Smart red legs.
Pyrrharctia isabella – the Isabella Tiger Moth
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Bandits
Long time visitors to this site will have seen this image before – it’s the “best” raccoon portrait I have ever taken (I think) but the recent visitations have not allowed me to better it, so here it it again. Fun creatures so long as they don’t get in your garbage.
- Aperture: ƒ/5.6
- Camera: Canon EOS 20D
- Exposure bias: -1/3EV
- Focal length: 260mm
- ISO: 1600
- Shutter speed: 1/40s
Hummingbirds
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Where’s the ruby throat you ask? Probably this is a new youngster … feeding from the flowers of our Lobelia cardinalis
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Exposure bias: -3/10EV
- Focal length: 203.2mm
- ISO: 800
- Shutter speed: 1/800s
Herbs
Basil in a dark mood
The dark leaved plants are a variety of culinary basil with a very strong flavour – officially the colour is described as being purple. Go very well with the tomatoes growing nearby.
- Aperture: ƒ/11
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 67.46mm
- ISO: 320
- Shutter speed: 1/200s
“The Sun Has Got His Hat On … “
” … and he’s coming out today”
- Aperture: ƒ/8
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 87.11mm
- ISO: 800
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Busy Paws
Raccoon
Very stormy and wet day so we passed much of it watching the garden and between rainy blatter periods mother raccoon and four youngsters paraded from one patch of vegetation across the pond and into the trees. Always takes time to grab the camera so this is kid number four.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 174.93mm
- ISO: 1600
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Memory Sunday #8
Gardener’s Ease
In England four summers ago we visited, with friends, a small garden that was open one evening to raise money for a good cause – this is quite a thing in England. In an otherwise empty “garden room” we chanced upon this delightful seat for the weary gardener. “A large gin and tonic if you please”.
- Aperture: ƒ/7.1
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Focal length: 58mm
- ISO: 320
- Shutter speed: 1/60s
New Member of Staff
Bernie the Gardener
We have been joined this week by a new under-gardener by name of Bernie. His duties include keeping an eye on the front garden and inviting very small people to join him on his bench to take selfies.
Thistles for Luncheon
The closest most birds in the garden come to thistle seed is finding it in a feeder but now our twice-lifesize bull thistle flowers are starting to form seed this American Goldfinch female has found them to be an excellent source of lunch-time nourishment.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Exposure bias: -3/10EV
- Focal length: 135.89mm
- ISO: 125
- Shutter speed: 1/250s