Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Spotted a snipe in the garden this morning… Managed a blurry photo of it but I have the camera set up ready for its return. Bet it won’t come back now!
I still haven’t quite got the hang on getting pin sharp photos with my longest lens. At 300mm it isn’t really long enough for bird photography either and hand holding it without image stabilisation isn’t easy, but I’ll get there. What I really need is a day out in the hills or along the estuary...
If you look close enough you can see the reflection of me and Morgan in its eye!
Although we live in a rural location surrounded by countryside, we don’t get a huge variety of birds to our feeders. It isn’t surprising really as the countryside around is is fairly sparse. There are few trees, and the ones that do grow are small and stunted and the number of different habitats that we...
I’ve been doing quite a bit of moth-trapping lately. Usually it just involves placing a moth trap in the garden overnight and then investigating the contents in the morning. The identification, counting and photographing of the moths can take a while sometimes, but generally its a fairly laid back affair. Last night was a lovely...
Although living in a rural location, there is little tree cover nearby and therefore the variety of birds we get in the garden is fairly limited. Over the last few weeks we have had some new visitors though in the form of a pair of Linnets. These small finches are partial migrants to the UK...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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