Kingfisher, 20 December 2019
The resident kingfisher at the Botanics was active and giving the sticklebacks a good doing! The dull conditions and it being the shortest day made a monkey of things like shutter speeds and ISO levels, especially shooting with the 100-400 mm lens with the x1.4 TC on. A 560 mm lens gives a decent length,…
Pots of Gartness, 12 October/06 November 2019
This was a first visit to the Pots of Gartness on the River Endrick to try to photograph leaping salmon and trout. Arrived and no signs initially. It looked a good height for running, but maybe a tad high for jumping. As I watched, I started seeing a few backs swirling around in the foam,…
Buchanty Spout, 28 September 2019
A visit following heavy rain and the river dropping to below 0.5 m on the Newtonbridge gauge, though that turned out to be still a tad high at Buchanty. Very little until mid-day, after which there was a reasonable amount of activity. A lot of the fish were small. The river was an ideal height…