These are a few from a short walk along the Leeds Liverpool canal from Fox Corner, Otley Road to just past the Dock Lane swing bridge.
The header image is of a Sand Martin leaving its nest which is in a ground water drain pipe in what remains of the wall of the old Glenroyal cinema.
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On this little walk I was out to play Ingress, a game I started playing in December 2013. I have had a couple of breaks from the game and recently started taking an interest again. I am not expecting to be travelling all over the country again or waiting for a call to action at 2:00am, we’ll see. Perhaps I will try top get fellow retirees interested in weekday fielding exercises.
The location was also chosen to fit with checking out the site where Sand Martins have been nesting. I had expected them to have all fledged but several nests were still in use. The photo here, not the header image, shows it leaving the nest with what looks like a long insect wing possibly from a Damselfly?
For these two photos I used the camera’s pre-burst capture function. A half-press of the shutter starts the camera “recording”, a full press then writes the shots from 1/2 second before the full press to whenever you take your finger off the shutter. Back home it was enlightening to see that the default frame from when I fully pressed the shutter had no bird in shot. I had to go back 4 or 5 frames to get the bird.
I need more practice, there is no chance for the auto focus to latch onto the bird, so I need to manually set the focus to a small distance in front of the exit. It would also have been better if I had my tripod with gimbal head. Next time.
We also have:
- Poplar Hawk-moth (Laothoe populi)
- Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator)
- Common Darter dragonfly (Sympetrum striolatum)
- and Cinnabar Moth caterpillar
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