A man and his camera.

Sunday, 22 May 2022

Sunday in Debdale park, 22.5.22.

Nice warm sunny day in Debdale today, 22.5.22.

No sign of any babies at the Great Crested Grebe Nest yet.

Male still supplying her with food.

The Canadian geese have done well with babies, this is a creche which they do to protect each others babies!.

Very cute hey.

In the Nature Centre this Wood pigeon seems to have nice table manners at the bench table.

The blue Tits are doing well and are very busy feeding their young.

They will have to see the landlord about that roof when the kids have fledged!.

Off again for more food.

Back again.

This seems to be the food of choice for the Blue Tits.

The bees certainly seem to like this plant.

The single cygnet seems to be alright, staying close to Mum.

This Black Headed Gull had just stolen this fish off a Coot which surprised me as Coots are quite aggressive usually.

Well another nice day at the park, some nice people too talk too to!.

Pepe enjoying a mini cornet.

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Friday, 20 May 2022

This week, 16-20 .5. 22

This week hasn't been too bad really, weather sunny and showery, though it hasn't kept us in.

The resident swans at Debdale have a single cygnet, usually have 4-6 but suppose some have been eaten by predators, hopefully this last one will survive.

The parents are trying to keep this last one safe in the bushes.

Some of the Coots have got babies too, this one has three.

Get down in the rocks to find the best grubs junior.

Great Crested Grebe still sat on her nest

Turning the eggs.

And here's Dad bringing her something for the nest, bet he thinks that will get him some brownie points!.

Gone fishing for two now!.

At the Debdale Nature Centre

Long Tailed Tit.

Nuthatch in classic pose.

We went to The Snipe for a bacon buttie on Tuesday and I must have impressed the young girl on the counter with my chat because look at the buttie we got!.

Still plenty for Pepe as well.

With a Coffee it was only £3.50, was so nice even went back for another coffee.

The posh people go to Costa Coffee opposite, think you will pay a lot more there!

Whilst at The Snipe we got another couple of LED bulbs from Home Bargains, last 15 years, I should be so lucky at my age!.

Wall lights in the living room.

Will have to look at the bathroom next!.

Whilst at home here are some of my new baby Sparrows,

No sign of any baby Goldfinches yet, but the adults are getting stuck in to the new fat balls I've been getting from Home Bargains, they look a lot better than the 50 in a tub type.

If the prices of our food go any higher might be trying them myself soon, only kidding!!.

The bottom area of the garden is looking alright at the moment, but haven't got round to replacing the log rolls at the top end yet, got the new ones and a new digging tool, just got to find the inclination to do the job now.

My mate has started to send me pictures of his cooked meals, since he's recently became a widower (AJ1) and as I'm an old hand at it now (AV11) I've sent him this, my breakfast this morning!.

Plus two rounds of toast!.

As I've just moved up to Windows 11, I bought this book (from good old Amazon) to help with the transition and its been very good, should stand me in good stead!, my son is still coming round to give my efforts a bit of a tweak though.

Not seen any sign of Baby Peregrines at Pear Mill yet, though someone put a picture of babies on their site the other day, the nest shelf is about 80 feet up so the babies will have to be bigger to see them from the ground.

There is a camera above the nest that you can view on their website though, will have to find that!.

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Why do seagulls fly over the sea,

because if they flew over the bay they'd be bagels!.

Is a chicken crossing the road, poultry in motion?.

What's a polygon?.

A dead parrot!.

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Thursday, 12 May 2022

Bitz & Bobz, 12.5.22.

Yesterday, (Wednesday) as it was showery we went to The Snipe for a bacon buttie, then across to Home Bargains for some bird food as the birds are all stocking up and feeding their youngsters.

Whilst in the store I noticed some LED bulbs, which I'd been lead to believe were quite dear, these seemed cheap enough so bought some!.

As you can see they give a 60w light but only use 8.5 watts.

Two in the pack.

Before, in the hall.

Afterwards, and I'd always thought they weren't as bright, but these are blindingly bright.

So that's the hall and landing done, must look round to see anything else can but changed.

The kitchen light that son John fitted to my new kitchen ceiling gives out 16 watts instead of the 40 Watt fluorescent tube it replaced!.

So I'm getting there with my savings.

Because I'd bought a camera bag for my new camera from Amazon I now get lots of adverts for Camera stuff.

One advert was for a Hot shoe cover,

Looking at the camera I thought, if I've made model boats for many years surely I could make one of these?.
So it was out with the offcuts bag for some scraps of plasticard, plastic weld and the modelling knife and came up with this.

The hot shoe.

My plastic cover fitted.

Easy to slip in and out

So it wasn't the price so much as the knowing I'd made it myself!.

Didn't bother painting it as using it would only scrape the paint off, plus it stands out to everyone its home made hey!.

In Debdale park yesterday took a few pictures.

This huge bush fuchsia ( taller that Me) in full flower already.

A lot of skinny Robins about, not babies as they don't have a red breast, so perhaps last years youngsters.

Plenty of cheeky squirrels about.

This lovely plant I found out is called "A bleeding Heart", a lot of new plants going into the Nature Centre at the moment, call in and see them, the café there is open Fridays ,Saturdays and Sundays by the way.