*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2025.06.07 ***

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Some birds

Haven't posted birds for a while, now since I'm out of other shots I'll present some.

Common snipe. Its separate tail wings make specific sound so it's easy to recognize this bird.

Scored some swift shots but as you can imagine most of the shots were either out of focus or swift was partially or completely out of frame. I'm too old for this swift...

Lapwing under evening sun

Goosander stretching after groom

Common whitethroat

Incoming from left! Swallows

Rosefinch

Yellow wagtail

Citrine wagtail. It's much rarer than yellow wagtail and seems to be more cautious, so far I got only distant shots of this specie.

Really nice shots Vahur. These two for me. The Rosefinch looks so unassuming sitting there.

I think there’s an unexplained connection between dogs and their owners. :)

"Summer"

The first morning of summer came in cool and blustery, a huge contrast with the warm dry spring. I usually take a walk up on the local hill, Sizergh Fell, after breakfast. On a good day the views are magnificent; peaks of the lake district to the NW, Pennines and Ingleborough to the east, Morecambe Bay to the south...

Beautiful sunshine... but what's going on with those clouds in the distance?

And wher's Kendal gone? That's Sizergh castle in the middle distance.

Breeze is getting up... Seems to be lots of PIgnut flowering everywhere this year.

A squall swept in and I had to shelter under one of the meagre hawthorn trees on the side of the fell. I was thinking of pictures of the oxeye daisies dancing in the wind, but kept getting raindrops on the front of the camera, and didn't like the prospect of lying down in the now wet grass. Eventually gave up.

On the way back down I came across two new orchids;
Common spotted orchid

Greater Butterfly Orchid

Interesting place. I wonder why the sculpture of folks in raincoats? I like the play of light and shadow - must be more possibilities to explore there.

Nice to see more of your bird shots after so long 😀
The snipe is a great catch. And the swift - I can really appreciate how hard these are!

😁😂 It is an amazing fact of life that people resemble their dogs. This is a brilliant catch with faces too 😁

The walk that never was.

I had carefully planned out a walk in the foothills above Reggio with map in hand, trying to reduce the climbs to a minimum. About a quarter of an hour into the walk, I was supposed to cross a narrow ridge. After climbing up, I found some sort of erosion had caused a huge sinkhole about six feet deep. It was too dangerous to skirt round the edge. End of walk.

I did come across a really weird orchid on the way back, to the afternoon morphed into macro photography. I returned the next day as I was not happy with the pictures of this strange plant

This was near the sink hole. This is a very Iron rich clay.

Jeez, he is genuinely weird. Even for that neck of the woods. Great catch.

Ride

Quick grab shots from last week's Bike for Brain Health - 2 major arteries leading from downtown Toronto were closed last Sunday for autos for 12 hrs to facilitate the ride.
!0K participants and $6M was raised.

There is something disturbing about that group of sculptures. I love the play of light and shadow in this shot. Where was it shot?

Good to see some of your bird photography again. The last Swallow shot is pretty dynamic and amazing. But I like the way you give character to your small bird shots.

British Summer Weather.

I like the Horse Parsley shot very much, which pretty much gives the idea of the weather. the two Orchids were a nice find.

Looks like you have plenty to explore around your new home.

Great atmosphere here, almost 1920's and motley crue members against somewhat industrial background all play very well.

Some amazing captures. That's my fave pic- soaring...

Wild man...