Category: David

The same male blackbird featured the previous post, this time on the ground then taking off. As the bird moved around, patches of white in the feathers became visible.

Male blackbird recently, limbering up for spring. From a vantage point on top of a heavily pruned bush, the bird repeatedly broke out into subsong, paused and restarted.

The remains of last year’s dyer’s rocket plants growing at the edge of the River Severn near Ironbridge, seen on a sunny morning when the water was high.

Second group of pictures of the swans escaping the parkies adding a chemical to treat the water in West Park lake.

The lens I used for all of these fleeing fowls posts doesn’t do autofocus. I had to use a technique called pre-focusing – it was about the only way to get clear pictures of moving subjects when us oldies started to use cameras.

If I did have autofocus and used it, I would have had to throw away several goes as focused wrongly. With the old-fashioned method (and years of practice using it) I didn’t miss a shot.

Seeds, grouped in a now dried spiky fruit, hanging down from the twig of a plane tree. The buds of this year’s leaves beginning to break, with the whole seen against the bright blue sky of a sunny winter morning.

Burdock earlier this month, the sun shining from behind picking out the hooked attachments to the seeds.