Action Photos Finches On A Norfolk Bird Table

The Annex we rented for our Norfolk Vacation had a nice Garden and early in the morning for around 30 minutes the bird table was invaded by Blue Finches and Great Finches.

They were constantly darting backwards and forwards to the table trying to avoid hanging around due possibly to the visiting French Cat.

Luckily I managed to take a number of photos in sports mode using my eBay purchased Nikon 5100 DSLR.

I think they've come out quite well.

To view the photographs at full size double-click on one of them.

Blue Finch Flying Into The FeedingTray

Blue Finch Scanning The Feeder

Blue Finch Slowing For Landing

I hope you like the pictures

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3D SBS My Dog Skippy In The Dog House

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After creating mayhem I had to muzzle skippy whilst I got on with the job at hand of putting out the recycling and trash.  But despite the muzzle he manage some cunning stealing and eating,  But he couldn't dispose of the evidence.  Its in 3D because that was the camera to hand when I was laughing at his cunning and skills.

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Action Photos Swifts or Swallows Nesting On Cromer Cliffs Norfolk

As we wandered along Cromer Beach in Norfolk I was amazed to see what appeared to be Swifts or Swallows nesting in burrowed holes high up on the cliffs, so I spent some time trying to photograph flying around their holes using sports mode on my Nikon 5100 DSLR.  I pointed and clicked with little success.

Then I had the idea of timing by counting how long it took for the bird to fly into the hole, do its feeding and emerge, and surprisingly it turned out to be pretty regular, both leaving and then returning.

Not being an ornithologist I guessed that the feeding process has to be regular, who knows.

When I trawled through the hundreds of shots I took over a glass of wine I was really pleased to see that I had a small number of nice action shots.  Here they are:

Cliff Nesting On Cromer Beech -  Heading In

Cliff Nesting On Cromer Beech -  Heading Out

Cliff Nesting On Cromer Beech -  Catching Flies

Cliff Nesting On Cromer Beech -  Leaving Nest

Cliff Nesting On Cromer Beech -  Bolting From Nest Hole

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My Flying Greyhound Lurchers

Having purchased my first 2nd user digital SLR and Nikon 5100 I decided I'd give it a go shooting Bree and Skippy running at full pelt around a Norfolk Beach.

Lurchers are fast, very fast, and both our rescue dogs are Lurchers and are a cross between Saluki and Greyhound.  They are sleek and swift.

Lurchers like Greyhounds are on of the few dogs that spends more time flying through the air, with all feet off the ground when running, than with its feet on the ground.  They are so fast that they are even able to achieve this feat on wet sandy beeches as you can see in the picture below.

I'm really thankful that the Nikon 5100 was fast enough to capture this even with the 55-200 lens.  Do any of you notice something different about Skippy in the background?  If you have already seen Skippy please don't comment as I'm interested in viewers perceptions of what they think they see to what they can actually see.

Flying Lurchers All Feet Are Off The Sand

I also made a video on my iPhone as they were flying around the beach chasing each other.

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I hope you like the pictures, please comment and I'll post some more pictures.

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Three Legged Greyhound Lurcher Racing On A Walcott Beach

We took Skippy and Bree to Norfolk UK with us for a run on the Walcott beach, as you can see they absolutely loved it, and despite having 3 legs Skippy was not deterred in chasing down Bree.  It's amazing how quick he goes and that losing the back leg has had little effect on his agility and speed.  #fixed1tRESCUEdogs

3D VR Slug And Snail Invasion SBS Google Cardboard by fixed1t

This video is about 3D VR Slug And Snail Invasion destroying my potato plants during this very wet late spring and summer.  I've filmed this with my JVC Everio Full HD 3D VR Camera.

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Its one of an increasing number of my videos in my 3D SBS VR Videos by fixed1t Playlist the link is below:

3D SBS VR Videos by fixed1t Playlist

Don't Have A 3D System And Don'y Know How To Get One For Around $30? Just click on the link below and watch the short videos in my personal 3D playlist

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I Got These With My Own Cash
SBS 3D VR Cardboard Google glasses. I Bought These.



These are cheap and great, click the link below to find them:

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For those poor unfortunate people out there who have a $300 to $800 high tech phone but can't afford $30 for a suitable headset to turn it into an amazing immersive 3D VR full screen personal watching system.

Here are some great 2D pictures of the beasties who have stripped virtually all the leaves off my bag of growing potatoes.

Fat Larry Sausage

Munch Monster

Crevice Creepers

Bang Crawlers

These are seriously juicy characters, they I find in large numbers on these wet UK nights.

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Three Legged Lurcher Skippy Gaining Weight And Muscle Nicely

I think I'd forgotten how thin and weak Skippy was when he first came to us as Prince.

He'd been in foster care for over 6 months with a pack of larger Greyhounds and although he'd been well cared for he wasn't getting enough exercise and stimulation for him to grow.

Its been quite a struggle to find the right combination of food for him that will not upset his stomach and bowels but will allow him to put on weight.  Here is a picture of him shortly after we invited him into our home:

Now his ribs are barely visible and he seems to have grown into his boney face.

As for his relationship with Bree they are inseparable:

Perhaps his rippling front legs and shoulders that's doing it ;-)

And such a great little runner:

Disabled Hound Skippy Racing 4 Legged Bree


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Disabled Hound Skippy Racing 4 Legged Bree

We took our 3 legged rescue dog 'Skippy' on a local rescue hound Play Group exercise walk with Bree and lots of other Greyhounds, Lurchers and Wippets. One of the owners has a Paddock so before the walk we let Bree and Skippy in to go mad, they are so good together and so fast. To think if he hadn't have been rescued they'd have put him down down to his awful injuries, but he's a very lucky and happy dog.



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