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Day 50 in our garden didn’t involve my camera very much. I did knock in some poles for our Runner Beans to climb up when they are ready to be planted out but that is hardly worth a photo. The Rose that I said had lots of buds on has yet to burst open. The…

As suggested in Day 48 this is about getting photos of the Blue Tits using flash. I had tried full power flash but the birds were even more blurred than when using 1/1000s shutter. Canon don’t publish figures for flash duration, the flash gun manual was no help, so I went on t’internet and found…

I didn’t get anything new for Day 48 so really it should be a re-cap, but since this is my blog I can change the rules whenever I like. The subject for Day 48 is more photography based than anything to do with the garden, or new species, or day count. Having had some success…

Some new things and some repeats for Day 47. The last one is a spider. Forget Me Not are small flowers so it is only when you get up close that you see some of the detail. I know I have posted photos of these before during the series but the banks of blue are…

Day 46 started looking a bit grey but it was not thick grey and as promised it soon cleared to give a mainly blue sky with some fluffy white clouds. They occasionally hid the Sun but not for long. The header image is looking West from our house at about 5:00pm and the one above…

I was tempted not to bother with any photos from Day 45 even though I spent a good proportion of the day with my camera on a tripod pointing to the sky. At 9:07am I took this photo of something that is no where near as common as they used to be. In the past…

A great first for the series on Day 44. Not a particularly good photo so hopefully I will get better ones another day but a great record shot. I knew they were around, I had reports from birders for a few days that Swifts were flying and screeching in the area. I had to be…

Day 43 in this series, where I have tried to show something new each day, is still going. Day 32 was a re-cap of birds and Day 42 was not a re-cap and did not have anything new just 2 photos of a Greenfinch. Apart from those two I have brought something new each day…