Nature pics

[bim]

This feller just turned up perched on the pallet outside my porch door...I think it's a grasshopper but I thought they were much smaller?

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Hi SP, It's not a grasshopper but a Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) It must be nice at yours because they like it warm and sunny or it's looking for somewhere nice and warm to stay!!

 

[sonnetpete]

Hi SP, It's not a grasshopper but a Great Green Bush Cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) It must be nice at yours because they like it warm and sunny or it's looking for somewhere nice and warm to stay!!

Thanks bim, having Googled it, the one you mention does look identical. It was a very mild early Autumn here (over 20C some days) so maybe they are more common this year. That's about the third I've spotted but the first I've managed to photograph...

 

[Topper]

Why these ladybirds found this handrail a good place to sunbathe a couple of weeks ago I have no idea unless the rail had absorbed the heat from the winter sun

 

[Archived-1]

We had some of the same T, they was landing on our window/ledge that is south facing. I guessed they was having a quick warm.

 

[snapperoonie]

Don't know if this counts as a nature picture but I took this a few months ago from my garden.

 

[rolfw]

Excellent, what equipment?

 

[Archived-1]

Great picture , what is the cannon SX50 HS like with macro and at about 50ft for my garden bird pics.

 

[snapperoonie]

Great picture , what is the cannon SX50 HS like with macro and at about 50ft for my garden bird pics.

The camera is an awesome bit of kit for a non SLR although due to pressure of work I have next to no time to get to grips with it. I took the moon picture using a tripod and a radio controlled remote shutter release.
Here is a bird picture I took hand held at full zoom bracing myself against a doorframe at I would guesstimate at about 40 feet probably on the first day that I got the camera.

 

[Archived-1]

Many thanks, that will do for me, next spare bit of cash a Canon PowerShot SX50 HS it is .

 

[snapperoonie]

Note to self, next time I post a picture I really should remove the embedded information

 

[Archived-1]

Note to self, next time I post a picture I really should remove the embedded information

no harm done ;)

 

[Archived-1]

 

[snapperoonie]

 

[snapperoonie]

Not really true macro and not the greatest but I took this in my garden

 

[Archived-1]

Thanks again, it will do for me, I am no expert far from it, but I can see its far better than what I am using atm and within my budget in mind

 

[Archived-1]

Another invasion yesterday, and the doves look on.



Two more

 

[Piltdownpaul]

First low resolution photo with my sigma 150-500 F6.3 Zoom, mallard duck laughing as i try to take a photo before it rains.

 

[Piltdownpaul]

Mr goldblum??

 

[Topper]

My feeder was not touched for the first three weeks that I had it but the last two days the neon sign must have been lit, it has been like a bus station, they have been chasing each other around and have demolished most of it's contents, just a few poor quality snaps

 

[timo_w2s]

Went for a walk yesterday in Helsinki, still a few boats on the water but most have been taken out ready for winter. It only takes a few of cold nights for the ice to start forming on the sea.