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Lovely! I saw one outside the kingfisher hide this afternoon 🙂

It's six on each side, I think 😄

A mostly bald, rescued battery hen. She is lit from the front and is standing on a black background

Cats, ferrets and maybe the odd chicken... 😉

...As for lighter gear - this combination gives me that shallow depth of field, concentrating the eye on the subject. I do have a little bridge camera with a greater "reach", but there is no comparison. I'll go and probably sit on a tree stump waiting for the deer to come to me 😂

No question is ever silly. I use a professional 36MP Nikon D810, which alone, weighs a ton. The 600mm is a massive beast, but is necessary for birds. I do, however, use it over a bean bag on my open car window. Dragging them both round a park with a Manfrotto tripod looking for deer is tough...

Thank you! 🙂

Single fallen autumn leaf trapped in a dead plant

Trapped autumn leaf #photography

Male fallow deer (buck) standing under autumn trees with the sun lighting up the background

Buck in our local park. I love photographing the deer here, but it's hard going with a 600mm lens and heavy tripod. I'm beginning to wonder if I'm up to it this year... #photography #wildlife

Kingfisher preening under one wing

It's autumn images from me tonight. Kingfisher preening in the sun #photography #birds

Wow!

A long exposure image of a man walking over an advert on the floor of Glasgow Central station

I think it was better in the mid-70s, but perhaps my memories have faded with time. I like to do street photography up there in the winter, but every year they seem to be on strike.

I think I must have taken this in Glasgow Central a few years ago 🙂

I used to work in London, so I can sympathise...

At least we had the honour of knowing him for a while. He was a lovely boy...

Small tree catching the very last of the sun's rays. The background is all in shadow

Ashdown Forest as the sun was setting 🙂

We were asked to take in a stray ferret 2 months ago. He's done well, but is too bouncy for our resident pair, who are old and disabled. So, we went on a play date with Hissing Sid and brought home a pair. Sadly, the hob turned out to be very ill and we had to have him PTS after 9 days. I'm gutted 😭

Male sandy ferret playing with a toy mouse in the afternoon sun

Paddington with a toy mouse in the sun #photography #pets

Silver female ferret playing with a mouse toy

One of our silver jill ferrets photographed a few years ago. Mindy #photography #pets

Single fallen leaf floating on a lake. The water is in shades of gold, reflecting the autumn colours from surrounding trees

Seeing as we're in the middle of autumn, here is something taken with my little bridge camera a few years ago #photography #autumn

#WarRavagedPortland

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We had a diabetic cat for many years and the time change used to drive me wild. I altered her injections by about ten minutes a day. One year, I had gone for about a week before realising I was going in the wrong direction...

I came here to chew gum and call out lies on Twitter... and I'm all out of gum.
(Photo @politicalpics)

Ahh... good times. We had an old Series III Land Rover for many years 🙂

We have twelve cats. By the time we've adjusted them all for daylight saving time, we'll be ready to change them back again... 😉

Date for your diaries:
Friday 10th October
9am (gmt): The Nobel Committee announces the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
9.01am (gmt): War declared on Norway

Durham Station Road, painting by Eric Thompson (b.1947). #NorthernArt

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

I've protested throughout my life and have been to some of the biggest marches in the UK...

I'm so sorry. It probably doesn't help you to say that your situation, all the way across the pond, is making some of us ill over here...

Senator @jeffyarbro.bsky.social on Trump’s invasion of Chicago & Portland…