I was told a while ago that if you feed birds that usually stay during winter some small bits of fried bacon, they grow fatter quicker and won't need to go far to look for food and will survive well over winter and possibly stay in your garden. I was told that works for robins anyway. All I can say...

Terrible to suffer SAD like that; I think many people probably suffer but do not recognise it. My fiancee is Finnish - and if I retire to the back of beyond in Finland (a vague plan - 2 times the number of butterflies in Finland compared to UK!!!) I have already thought about the Light Box solution ...

On the other hand, I could have been making a reference to all realities exist simultaneously and the egg, caterpillar and butterfly being one and the same because time is, in fact, an illusion .. . Existentialism breaks out on UKB! (Perhaps we should get that great French thinker, Eric Cantona, to...

Nice one Pete! My local Cemetery is full of Holly Blue in the season. I go through every day to and from work and keep a look out on some of the ivy clumps - but never seen anything yet! Mind you there is so much ivy , it is the proverbial needle in the haystack! But your story encourages me to keep...

I might need to learn some basics though, as it will be mighty embarrassing if I'm holding it at the wrong end! :lol: Neil Hi Nick I want to take a look at Fleam Dyke - I'm working at Addenbrookes for 1 more month so it's only up road from where I work so I'm thinking of taking a look one lunchtime...

.... What I actually want are some Brimstone caterpillars to fly into my garden and lay eggs on the alder buckthorn bushes which are growing here specifically for them. Maybe it will happen next spring. :D If the caterpillars can fly, then no doubt they will be closely followed by the flying pigs a...

Fleam Dyke Transect on Saturday - Calcareous grassland on scheduled Ancient Monument which runs for 7kms S. of Cambridge from the Fen across the Chalk to Balsham. 9 Species: Comma 8, Whites 8 (1 LW, 3 SmW, 4 GVW) Red Admiral 1, Speckled Wood 2, Common Blue (f) 1, Small Heath 1 and Brimstone (f) 1. C...

Me? Already booked up with my mate for off-road biking up the "East Anglian Heights" most Saturdays! Also some management of my local (mature) Cemetery; that is, keep the "tidy-brigade", who think that mown-grass looks nice, at bay and remind them that it doesn't do much for the ...

jackharr wrote:Gruditch wrote that he is a:

a short arse

Ladies. You might be able to answer this. Are men of reduced stature (vertically challenged) proportionally challenged in other parts of their anatomy?

Jack

Surely the saying is - "A short arse and a long .......!"

Nurse! Susie says it's time for my pills!

Come on then! Let's form a line....DSLR on one side; non-DSLR the other.. (Rosy/Susie (I just can't keep up!) - Hope you can keep the book and sell tickets for the follow-on? Gruditch looks a big lad, so I'm glad he's on the right team!) Let us start with.... DSLRs - :oops: How much? £#**#! And then...

Please could we all can the incipient net rage before it gets out of control? This has always been a nice friendly site :D :D . Indeed! Grumpy old men and women onto Net Rage thread, surely? :mrgreen: No one, after all, need accept any of this critique; putting your ownership aside and looking at w...

The problem is, when you are a bloke, over a certain age, that gravity takes over your hair !
Instead of growing from the top of your head, it migrates and starts to sprout out from your nose, ears and eye-brows, taking the route of least resistance....sadly!
N

Yes - congratulations to all! (2 out of my top 3 got there) Comments well considered - I know - if only it had not been blowing a gale that evening it would have been sharper - but it isn't! Always next time
N

Marc, I too have a 400D and also use the Tamron 90mm and would throughly recommend this lens. :) My only bug bear is that the 400D can be noisey when shooting raw at ISO 400 and even ISO 200 with the shutter speed around 1/50 sec. Roll on the 50D. Colin Ah - Nikon do seem to be a little better on t...

Firstly, congratulations on being a member of the Canonista. (Can't win them all I suppose! N) I have no experience of the Tamron or Tokina, but I bet they are pretty good - as all specialist lenses like this will be. Roger I believe they do make Tamron for Canonista's - tho' I'm happy with my Tamr...

No one has mentioned the Panasonic DMC-FZ18 with LUMIX lens, the 18 is the zoom, you can buy a close-up lens, wide lenes and additional zoom lenes. The camera cost about £200. Not a bad choice.... I was looking at my old butterfly images taken with the Panasonic FZ50 + close-up lens and also some o...

Pete Eeles wrote:Hi all,
....- or is it time to revert to a theme?
with only photos taken in 2008 being submissible.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
- Pete

How about tattiest (still-flying) butterfly as a theme for a winter comp?
N

{Mark rushes off to check yesterday's pics...........} :D {........ and plods disconsolately back} :( Well, maybe I'll get something in the rest of the month (tho' we're not getting anything other than Large/Small Whites, Red Admirals and Peacocks :() Quite tricky to get decent shots of the Whites ...

I'm sure we all suffered like the butterflies from the wet summer. Interesting extract from BBC Weather: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/monthly_outlook.shtml "Temperatures differed little from normal for the time of year but interestingly it has been a very windy summer - one of the win...