Islay Safari

I started to write you all a report,but then when trying to attach pictures,the site struggled.This new camera takes huge pictures,so I will have to crop a few for you to see.
Ferry trip over

A Manx Shearwater following us across.

Middle of the day,no fear on an island I guess.

Choughs,one of the reasons for the trip

Arctic Tern,pity it was a grey day,just playing with the camera and software.

brilliant pictures x x

Ragged Robin was everywhere

Orchids too.

Pyrimidal I think.

I was told this was rare,but forgot the name,will look it up later(early something or other,I think)

Great Pics TB. Love the shot of the Artic Tern, and the Manx Shearwater. It's great to see Choughs, we have them on Anglesy, but I've never managed to get a photo of them. It does take time to get used to a new camera, and the best way is to play around with them. I think you will find with the software, you will have a photo editor, with that you can resize your pictures for posting. I normaly load them into Windows Photo Gallery, then make a copy of any I want to play around with, or resize with my photo editor. Sorry you might know about that, but I though I'd just mention it, in case it's any help
WS

Just beautiful TB. Loving the Artic Tern and of course the little Reggie the Hedgie The colour of the Pyrimidal is glorious, it's one of my favourite colours. Your new camera is working well for you...........and us

littlewid-x-

Great photos TB - the rare orchid is beautiful.

Lai

Big things..................



and little things............

and cute things


Mum didn't like the look of us and the twins followed suit.

superb photos TB - love the hairy thing!

Lai

More piccies

Had to zoom in to see these,think they're young Sanderlings.


Black Guilliemot.

Not wild but they looked pretty ferocious.

Some really good shots there TB. Nice to see the Deer. Your Camera must have a really good zoom to get those Sanderlings, as well as your eyesight they well camouflaged there. Your right they do look ferocious, especialy the older Billy in front. We have a large herd of wild Goats on the Great Orme near us, but they are all white. Errrr that hairy thing Lai mentioned, you didna drop your Sporan did you
WS

I'm really enjoying your photos TB - all these different birds, animals and the caterpillar (?) Those goats have wonderful coats on them and a great set of horns on Billy.

I found this site http://scotland4wildlifeholidays.co.uk/wildlife-identification-guides which might help with the ID and some of the links are quite good but the caterpillar link doesn't seem to be working.

Lai

whitestarling wrote:Some really good shots there TB. Nice to see the Deer. Your Camera must have a really good zoom to get those Sanderlings, as well as your eyesight they well camouflaged there. Your right they do look ferocious, especialy the older Billy in front. We have a large herd of wild Goats on the Great Orme near us, but they are all white. Errrr that hairy thing Lai mentioned, you didna drop your Sporan did you
WS

The camera is a Cannon EOS 550D and the lens for that shot was a 17-85mm ultrasonic,still trying to work out what everything does.