{"id":10869,"date":"2024-12-28T11:41:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T11:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10869"},"modified":"2024-12-28T11:41:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T11:41:35","slug":"spots-before-my-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/spots-before-my-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Spots Before my Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On Friday I went out with my camera even though the sky was grey. It was not until I tried to take a photo, and checked the camera settings, that I realised how poor the light was. Taking a photo of anything moving was going to be difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crag Hebble Dam<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One of the reasons for going out was to actually use my Christmas present, a new Benro GH5C Carbon Fibre Gimbal Head<\/a>, that was a VERY good price from Wex<\/a> before Christmas. It is mounted on a 2nd hand tripod that I bought from a fellow member of Bingley Camera Club<\/a>. Given that there is either a wall or railings at the right height for resting my camera on around the dam the gimbal did not get much use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kingfisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kingfisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Kingfisher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Reeds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Robin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Robin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mallard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mallard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Blushing Bracket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hoof Fungus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A female Kingfisher was fishing in the dam and at one point another Kingfisher flew around the edge and headed down stream. The female, with a few peeps, followed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photo of the reeds was taken as a possible entry for round 3 of the Club’s running competition – Different Perspectives. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Trench Meadow<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Having seen 4 Grey Herons in one of the fields near the dam I decided to head down to the river and look in the fields behind Bradford Amateur Rowing Club. There were dozens of Canada Geese but no Herons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the way through Trench Meadow I spotted a male Kestrel at the top of a lone, small tree in the middle of the field. As I watched it it flew off and caught something next to some long grass and then went high up in a large tree, presumably to eat it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the way back to Shipley Glen the cloud cover thinned slightly and the Sun became visible. It looked more like the Moon than the Sun and I took a photo of it wondering if the cloud cover would make it resemble the Moon. I then noticed dark patches that stayed in the same place on the Sun – sunspots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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St Peter’s Church, Moorhead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Old Glen House & Shipley Clock Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Just next to the path from Crag Hebble, before getting to the gate to Trench Meadow I spotted a holder for flower arranging foam that spelt NANNA. It seemed a long way for it to be carried for throwing it away so I wondered if originally put there, with flowers, as part of a celebration or memorial. And a little further over from the path I spotted the remains of a radio controlled model car half buried in mud. Again it seemed a long way to carry something to fly-tip it, perhaps someone lost control of it and then couldn’t find it. So I lifted it out of the mud but there was not battery. I already had enough to carry so I left it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few minutes after taking the low cloud views over Shipley a small triangular patch of blue sky appeared with a vapour trail across it. Within seconds it closed up and that was the only view of the sky that day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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