Thank you to this White Tailed Eagle for circling above the field - enabling my to run to my camera - and first fly by our living room window after I opened the window and hung out of it. Yeah!! What a privilege 💚
When I post pictures I try to make them smaller to not take up too much space. Does that help and what size should I aim for? Less than 1 MB? 500 kb?
I am aware that I can join pixelfed who's servers might have different rules and then transpost a link here to mas.to.
(joinmastadon.org says:
Images (PNG, JPG, HEIF, WEBP) up to 16MB. Images will be downscaled to 8.3 megapixels (enough for a 3840x2160 image). Up to 4 images can be attached, per post.)
@Orewoet Don't worry about space usage for images, we use an external object storage provider and we have absolutely masses on there already, it's quite keenly priced so not a problem!
The snow is very slowly melting in my area the last two days.
Before it is gone. I'd like to post pics from the 2. of dec. where I went for a walk on a frozen golf course near lake Skanderborg. It was a very special walk because of the cold, the snow and the silence.
I was asked today by the he Natural History Consortium team (UK) if they could use my observation of today of this Common Seal on iNaturalist on their SoMe channels.
Well, of course!
I suppose that they are not on Mastadon -So I'll do it for them:
Take part in a BioBlitz across the whole of Europe!
iNaturalist is running a #EuroBioBlitz2023 during the last two days of september. Anyone can still join in for day nr. 2 tomorrow, saturday sept. 30th.
The barn swallows are still there. I was getting worried that they might soon leave for winter migration. But I can see that the last time I saw one from the garden was 3. oct '20, 7. oct '21 and the 6.oct '22. So they will be here a month more 🙂
And today I also could photograph a house martin. I don't see them that often from the garden, but the latest ever was the 26. august '21. House Martins leave Denmark a few weeks earlier so that was a nice catch today!
I just saw a Hen Harrier checking out a Hare. Nothing happened though, both are fine.
The Hen Harrier seems to be missing the tip of its beak. I hope it survives.
P.S.: I rushed out with my camera into the garden when I saw the bird - not wearing shoes. My socks got very wet running through the morning dew, but when standing still it wasn't cold. It actually felt like a good start of the day to feel the earth like that 🙂
Probably the most blurry pictures you will see today, but they do show an Eur. Honey Buzzard as seen from the garden.
The shouting of rooks made me realize that something was going on, but it took me a little while before I had my camera ready.
(As a help with identifying I always think that a common buzzard is the only one "wearing an icelandic sweater" of some kind: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Icelandic+sweater&images=&ia=images&iax=images. And the long neck of the Honey Buzzard helps as well.
Backyardbird nr 71 for this year. #Birding
By taking some time in the local forest I found some insects I have not seen before.
I am a bit fond of the second picture of the Enchanter's Stiltbug, as I like the angle and it is manual focus, taken with my birding lens
📸 Bordered Click Beetle, Enchanter's Stiltbug. Striped Oak Bug (That one I did see before) and a
Grey Sailor Beetle about to take off.
It was a nice birding day yesterday, despite the fact that I was only birding actively for 30 min. in the garden.
But before I went out I noticed this Redstart in the garden, and rushed to take a picture from behind the window. 💚 My first for this year.
During my 30 min. #BackYardBirding a white tailed eagle flew by, and a few hours later I heard this year's first Lesser Whitethroat singing from some bushes in town - "Tiktiktiktiktiktik"! 🙂