{"id":348,"date":"2012-04-17T23:23:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T23:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=348"},"modified":"2012-04-29T21:19:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T21:19:55","slug":"day-15-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/day-15-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 15 – Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

This day is a Sunday when I would either be going up onto Baildon Moor or down to the river with my long lens, looking for wildlife. Fortunatley Baildon Moor is also a golf course so it seemed reasonable to try and combine the two – Day 15 Sport (read my first posting about the challenge here – marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=266<\/a>) for the challenge and a bit of wildlife photography.<\/p>\n

On Saturday I felt I missed an opportunity by not going out until after my coffee (the light seemed good early on, but I was lazy) so today I headed out at a reasonable time (for a Sunday anyway) and I had not been outside long when I thought the long distance visibility was excellent. Hills were getting in the way a bit but everything looked sparkling so it seemed like a good idea to head off to Riva Reservoir again to try and improve on my photo of the 3 masts.<\/p>\n

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However it is still not as good as my first attempt. Do we have clear days any more?<\/p>\n

\"First<\/a><\/p>\n

The task for the day was to get some sport in the camera mixed with a bit of wildlife. The sport shot I went for, and submitted to #bradfordphotoaday was this one. This was taken with my long lens which is why the golf ball is not a streak – it is coming towards me. The long lens also compresses the slope and makes it look as though they are at the top of a cliff.<\/p>\n

\"Sport\"<\/a><\/p>\n

But before I took this shot I had already seen some wildlife. There were quite a few Skylark around.<\/p>\n

\"Skylark\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Most of the time they were happily sharing the place with golfers.<\/p>\n

\"Golfer\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see it was rather cold that morning – this golfer has a pale blue golfing glove on his left hand and a dark blue glove on his right hand. Skylark could be heard singing above my head and occasionally I managed to see them take to the air and start climbing until they were just a dot in the sky.<\/p>\n

\"Skylark\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Lower down the golf course, closer to Sconce, I kept hearing Curlew but all I could see were golfers.<\/p>\n

\"Golfers\"<\/a><\/p>\n

With all the people about it was quite surprising to see the Skylark scurrying about though when dods came bounding through the grass they soon scattered.<\/p>\n

\"Skylark\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It was also great to see a female Kestrel quartering the slopes. At one point she dropped down out of sight presumably to try to catch something. It was several minutes before I saw the bird hovering again.<\/p>\n

\"Kestrel\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It is at about this time that I took the photo of the golfers that I submitted for the challenge. Soon after that I went down to the far side of the golf course and looked over the wall and saw wildlife tat was just a bit too big for the Kestrel.<\/p>\n

\"Rabbits\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On the dead bracken I came across this small Tortoise Shell butterfly.<\/p>\n

\"Tortoise<\/a><\/p>\n

And then a little further along near the wood I managed to catch sight of this Wren with a rather blue looking insect in its beak.<\/p>\n

\"Wren\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I then came across a feeding Reed Bunting that was doing some very unusual acrobatics.<\/p>\n

\"Reed<\/a><\/p>\n

And nearby my first sighting of a Willow Warbler<\/p>\n

\"Willow<\/a><\/p>\n

I then met up with some golfers near one of the tees and they insisted on posing for a photo. It was only later that I realised that they were the same group that I had photographed earlier on another tee.<\/p>\n

\"Golfers\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Baildon Moor is also used by a lot of riders and one of my intentions had ben to try for a silhoet against the sky. The lighting was not very good for that and I did not see any horses on the tops of hills posing for me but this one is not too bad apart from the poorly positioned post.<\/p>\n

\"Horse<\/a><\/p>\n

Further down the moors towards Glovershaw, where the grass is longer, there were lots of Meadow Pipits.<\/p>\n

\"Meadow<\/a><\/p>\n

During the day I also saw this Purple Fritillaria<\/p>\n

\"purple<\/a><\/p>\n

Later on in the day (2:15pm) it was one of the guided walks around Denso Marston Nature Reserve where Steve was rather pleased with this Bee Fly<\/p>\n

\"Bee<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Bee<\/a><\/p>\n

We also managed to see Roe Deer across the other side of the river. They seem to be surviving even though there are reports of people hunting them with dogs. A cross-bow bolt has also been found on the reserve!!<\/p>\n

\"Deer\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Deer\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And then one of the last photos of the day on the reserve was this Wren with nesting material in its mouth.<\/p>\n

\"Wren\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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