So the BIG NEWS is Canada Goose on The Shunan yesterday. This is the first record for the 1km patch, although I have had a hybrid with a Greylag in the past. I have one prior record for the larger 3km patch, if I recall correctly, a small flock flew through.
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| Canada Goose. |
Sadly it is a standard, large, plastic one (feral population) and not a more interesting small, trans-Atlantic, migrant one.
More work on Orkney Vole resulted in these stills (not the best) and a very nice video.
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| Orkney Vole. |
The camera trap does not take very hi-res images. I'm wondering about trying the Olympus TG4 on this job and just setting it to take a load of images. The voles are being fed so they keep coming back to the spot. Alternatively I could lie out there with the EM5 (for hours).
However, I was pretty chuffed with this video...
Yesterday was a sad day as we had to have our old, and lovely pony put to sleep. Despite everything that we could do he was losing condition fast and it was just a matter of time before we had some awful crisis. We'd had him more than nine years and he was a family member.
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| Blue with younger daughter. |
On a more cheery note a walk at The Links gave some nice photographic opportunities.
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| Eider. |
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| Turnstone. |
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