Botanic Gardens & Inverleith Pond, 21 December, 2016
Test drive of an upgrade from mkII to mkIII 1.4x TC. Bit of an extreme test, due to low light levels on the winter solstice pushing ISO of some shots to 25,600!
River Endrick 26 November 2016
A day out with Euan McGrandle and Colin McCrory, spotting salmon and their redds on the River Endrick.
Waxwings
A tip-off that there was a flock of more than 100 settled in Gullane resulted in a trip down there ot have a go. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky when I set out, but by the time I got there, it was densely overcast, and by half way through getting a shoot in,…
Fox
Flushed by the pheasant shooters. The last 2 images are animated .gif file sequences.
Leaping salmon sequences
Sequences from the shoot at Buchanty, 19 Oct 2016. Click on one to get it moving…
Buchanty 19 October 2016
I looked for a chance after the first decent rain of autumn – it was just over 0.4 m on the gauge. This seemed an ideal height – and the water was very clear. There weren’t big numbers of fish jumping, but for the first time I was seeing them get all the way up! …
Bats
Not sure what species this is. He appears outside the back of the house at dusk. There is a small window of a couple of weeks where the light is late enough to overlap with his emergence time for long enough to give me a chance to try and snap him. Very tricky using ordinary…
Short-eared owls
Taken at the Musselburgh lagoons and Aberlady Nature Reserve.