Winsford Soul

Good evening my friend. Hope your well When your looking one way and a bird flies and then lands in the opposite direction is quite difficult to get a picture, luckily for me my new camera can fire off ten frames per second so I had a go, not that would have had a chance with my old five frames per second camera. Steve

Caught this Heron out of the corner of my eye at the last second as it touched down Steve Bit easier to see once it was settled Steve

All the tmg 500 series are very collectable these days. But as you say £150 way off. I would have thought the same as you Steve

Fishing rod or pole. Sod the golf when you have a lake like that. Steve

Won't be seeing you at grumpy tonight then mate. Enjoy Steve

Good evening trust you and Mr W are well that looks lovely .Do cactus flowers have scent ? Steve

This picture shows a dolphin watching boat not disappointing the clients on board as one surfaces just metres in front of it. Taken from Newquay harbour and heavily cropped Steve Life on a ocean wave. Well in Cardigan bay Steve

Thanks Peter. New fangled technology. Apparently I can extract still photographs from videos if something looks good or something special happens whilst I'm recording. Got so much more to get to grips with on this camera. Massive step up from previous model. Are you any closer to buying one yet mate ? Steve

Hopefully the video clip opens. Feedback please. The sound quality hasn't transferred over properly. Sorry about that. Steve

Heres something completly new from me . My new camera has video so this is my first ever attempt. Taken during my recent stay at the Swallows rest cottage. This is the view and sound from the front door Steve VID-20160621-WA0001.mp4

Kevin. Top one is Motown. The history. Sharon Davis and the other is Where did our love go Steve

Good evening and thank you my friend for once again the lovely comments. On the Skomer island visits she joins me. She absolutely loves the puffins and you can get literally two feet away from some of them. Plus it's normally a nice twenty minute boat journey and its a very healthy , brisk walk. The Badger pictures are taken normally when I'm mooching about n Lou is in the cottage. What I've not mentioned is when we got to Newquay. We parked up and walked down to the harbour where two bottle nosed dolphins where happily feeding away inside the harbour walls no further away than 50 metres, couldn't believe it. Where was the camera. ? Still in the car. Walked/ run back to the car but on my return the dolphins had followed the fish and retreating tide out into the bay. We saw in total about 12 different dolphins. It was a very special sight. Lou was jumping up and down with excitement screaming and shouting like a little girl. She had never seen them before. Will check to see if I managed any pictures. Steve

Here's another first for me. A skomer vole. Unfortunately for me it was dead and in the talons of this short eared owl. The vole is a sub species of the bank vole found in the UK but it has been separated from its mainland cousins for that long that its evolving in its own way as a species Steve

These two pictures where taken with a 400ml lens from about 200 yards away on a small boat just after we had left Skomer island. It shows a Greater black backed gull eating a puffin. Not very clear for which I apologise, I blame the skipper of the boat for not been able to keep the boat still in the swell Steve

Just love this shot of the Puffin down its burrow

Something a little bit different for me. Don't know what sort of Bee it is unfortunately. It was just about to land when I managed this picture. Must get myself a decent insect recognition book Steve

The grisly remains of a male Pheasant after been killed by a Buzzard. I thought it was a bit unusual for a Buzzard to take such large prey but the guy that told me where the carcass was actually witnessed the kill Steve

Didn't take many Badger pictures this time round. Was trying to find the two sets on the farm to stake them out but I managed to roughly locate only one of them, in deep undergrowth on a steep embankment . Next Time Steve

So do Andy but I couldn't eat a full one Steve

Rick. Remove the thing from your pond as it will if given the opportunity eat almost everything else that's in their. Just stand on it or as already mentioned eat it. Put it in a pan of boiling water for a few minutes until it turns red like a lobster or crab,then it's ready to eat. Steve

Peter. As ever thank you for your kind word's. I left Tenby on Saturday morning, visited Newquay to see the Dolphins then believe it or not went to Porthmadog until yesterday, Lou and myself stayed in a friend of Lou,s caravan about 1/2 mile outside the town on the black rock sands road. Would have been great to see you. Steve

Sunset over Skomer. The nearest land westward of the island apart from Grassholm island is South America