Sunday 12 July 2009

Back with the Birds. (and Butterflies)

Over the past couple of days we have visited Marazion Marsh, Hayle Estuary, Swan Pool and Hell's Mouth and birds are still a bit thin on the ground. If you look at the last Egret shot you
can see the poor fish in his throat.
We think this is a Juvenile Robin, not quite sure about the white flash though.
According to the book these are Cinnabar caterpillars, wish we had taken a couple home to incubate into adults as we have yet to see a Cinnabar.

24 comments:

  1. Nice set of images as usual. Your insects and macro work is improving all of the time. The last chaser image is very good.

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  3. 'We think this is a juvenile Robin'

    I think its possibly a juvenile Redstart but......am I imagining things when I take its rump and tail to appear rufous-chestnut? Not much to seperate the two in your pic.

    Apologies the first post had some unacceptable errors in it.

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  4. Lovely shots John... as usual I would have gone for Juv. Stonechat - I must have a one track mind when it comes to Stonechat!!! :-)

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  5. Great capture of the fishing Egret, and how good to be able to see the Peregrine like that too.
    Great selection.

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  6. Great selection!Really liked the fishing Egret.Butterflies are beautiful!

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  7. I love the Egret series! It's a lovely sequence of shots. I enjoyed the butterflies and dragonfly shots too. They are very different than I see here.

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  8. Thank you all for your comments,the Butterflies insects chaser etc were taken by Sue with a Olympus E400 supported with a 300 lens. The bird Images were all Digiscoped by me.
    John.

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  9. Superb photos as always, but I especially like the Egret series. They are really a beautiful bird. I didn't see any on our trip to Reno this time. Great photography, guys!

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  10. Great images! I would have said Stonechat for the young bird because of the flecks on the back and 'dirtier' looking front/flanks.

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  11. Great set of omages John and Sue. I know the Cinnabar Moth catapillar loves Ragwort.

    Funny how things work out, Ragwort used to be hated by Farmers now you see it everywhere.
    Sam

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  12. Excellent set of images, John. I also would`ve gone with Stonechat.

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  13. Great shots by a great duo working in tandem. Birds, butterflies or moths it is all top class

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  14. Lovely series of photos of the egret. Fantastic macro shots of the butterflies, wonderful colours.
    madibirder

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  15. Hi JR and Sue. All I can say is another very nice selection of photo's

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  16. Another very accomplished set of photos from you both. Cheers Frank.

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  17. Amazing variety of birds and butterflies. I loved the design patterns and colors on the butterflies.

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  18. A lovely set of photos. I don't think it's a juvenile Robin and I wondered about a juvenile Dunnock but I'm really not sure, a thoroughly enjoyable post though.

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  19. Thanks everyone, the general consensus seems to be Juvenile Stonechat and we think, with that white bar, this is probably correct. Sue and John

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  20. Wow, what great shots here. Love your bug shots especially. :)

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  21. Excellent images..Best viewed large.

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  22. ...really nice fishing sequence. I'd love to be able to photograph something like that!! Cool...

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