Wildlife and nature photography from the UK and beond.From the birds and mammals, through to wild orchids and landscapes
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Red Fox, Vulpes vulpes,searching for food in an Oxfordshire meadow,late spring,this meadow has two earths in and both vixens have cubs ,which should be out in the next couple of weeks
Using the Memory setting and FN button on Sony Alpha cameras carlmckienaturephotography This is an often overlooked and under used feature on many camera models, not just Sony Alpha. Partly I think that a lot of people in general do not use their camera anywhere near to its full potential, and stick in fully automatic modes and just move the exposure compensation dial now and again or the other side of the coin where people think they have to dial in the settings every time they change what they are doing—what a waste of time and how many missed shots?? Having a group of settings assigned to a position on the mode dial allows you to quickly change from (for example) action to portrait or static type photography, or still photography to film rather than go through the menu pages changing...
Water rails in Gloucestershire A few quick images of a water rail,from earlier this month.I was actually looking for Cranes around Somerset,which where released a few years ago as part of the Great crane project and now breeding successfully in the area. Numbers are still in the tens rather than the hundreds,so tracking them down can be a bit challenging, and a good amount of patience is required, so lucky for me while waiting for them to turn up this water rail came to the edge of a near by reed bed,and started prodding around for food ,and was surprisingly bold.These small birds are more often heard, and spend most of there time skulking deep in amongst the reeds ...
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