It's a lovely place to visit and if you go at the right time of year you may see the peregrines that nest on the cathedral.
I'm glad you like it ☺️
You honour me Lunch ☺️
Tldr: Sleepy Eel, very fast and agile bird = dead fish
The big Eels are predators themselves. And if angling is anything to go by then they hunt at night, as that is when they are most often caught. That would suggest that during the day they are probably holed up dozing on or near the bottom of the river in the plants and rocks. Also, at this point of the river, there is a large weir and boat lock, with an eel stair. This allows them to migrate around the man-made obstruction. So they may also be a number of them shoaled up waiting to migrate past the weir. Add this to the fact that cormorants are very fast swimmers, and incredibly agile. That long neck and hooked beak can get in nooks and crannies and latch onto almost anything edible. They are quite capable of catching sea fish in open water. The Eels advantage, if it had one, is they are incredibly slimy and seem to be able to produce additional mucus when threatened. The cormorant lost its grip a few times as it thrashed the eel like a whip trying to subdued it.
They certainly are 😃
This was just one small slice of the scene in front of me, there was 5 or 6 times this number. The first time I saw them many years previously there was 5!
I have definitely seen many species of wading birds asleep on one leg, I think they generally do it to conserve heat.
I like the sound of the word dremples. It is a bit like our word dimples, but that is the physical opposite of bump, rather it means a pit or depression.
Is Achtung Dutch also, I know it from the German, I assume it means the same e.g Attention!
I see you like cycling, it makes sense Attention! (Speed) Bumps! 😁
A German friend actually saved my life with that word. I was about to step out in front of a fast moving car that was going the wrong way down a one way road. He yelled Achtung! I looked around to see why he had suddenly spoken German when we had been speaking English and my foot, that was in mid-step off the pavement, scraped down the side of the car. It didn't stop and I was left a bit stunned to say the least!
Thanks Lunch 😊
Lol yes I can definitely see them getting hot under the frilly collar!
My understanding is that the Chickadees were moved to the genus Poecile (was a sub-genus) which does contain some birds called tit e.g. Willow Tit but is genetically distinct from the other genera that contain the UK birds we call Tits e.g Cyanistes (Blue Tit) or Parus (Great Tit). However, they are in the same Paridae family which are commonly referred to as the Tit family lol I think that's why using common names becomes an issue when you need to be specific. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_(bird)
I also think the problem is, since the advent of genetic testing, we are finding many species need recategorising. And even though the scientific names change the common names are unlikely to.
Thank you for your kind words. It is one of my favourite pictures and it means a lot that other people enjoy it too.
Thanks bumps 😁 (it is the Dutch for bumps isn't it?)
Lol I call to my crows when I put fat balls out for them. My wife thinks I'm nuts but they do listen to me!
I've never seen a chickadee I'm afraid, we don't have them in the UK.
Thanks xc2215x 😊
Hail Santa!
(And thank you too!)
It's never too late to become a gear head lol
If your friend has any other questions let me know.
You too 👍
You did well to get the exposure on the wings, that would have been very easy to blow out against that sky.
Glad you like it Kevin.
Tldr: 51.6 MB on the D850 and 28.5 MB on the D7200.
The D850 sensor is a full frame 35.9mm x 23.9mm with 46.9 million pixels. The files are 51.6 MB in 14 bit lossless compression format.
The D7200 I also use has an APS-C sensor 23.5mm x 15.6mm with 24 million pixels. 14 bit lossless compression gives 28.5 MB files.
You can shoot the D850 in crop mode which makes it essential like a D500 which is the best APS-C Nikon do (at least with a mirror) and you will get D7200 comparative files. I don't use it like that as I want ALL the pixels lol Mostly for the fact I want as much freedom to locate the subject in the final image as I can.
I use a Sony XQD 120 GB 440 mb/s primary card in the D850 with a SanDisk extreme pro UHS-II as roll over storage, unless I need a backup for an important event and then I duplicate across both cards. I use 2 of the SanDisk cards in the D7200.
You can get about 2300 D850 14 bit lossless compressed RAW files on the Sony card.
You're too kind, but thank you.
Excellent, you might be able to see the Aegithalos caudatus caudatus sub-species. It has an almost pure white head. I haven't seen one, we get the Europaeus sub-species here.
You get them all over the UK but I have had my best sightings in East Anglia. I've seen them in the reed beds of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, but they do seem to like leafy, deciduous woodland near water. In the spring and early summer they will dance through the canopy looking for insects.