Excerpts from our garden.
17th September 2021
With the autumn rapidly approaching ironically the weather has been very pleasant and Susan and I have been sitting out in the garden in the evenings enjoying the late summer sunshine. Just before dusk the local bats start to fly around hunting for insects and a few nice moths have started to appear at this time of day.
Magpie Moth.
I have cut all the straggly bits off the garden hedges after the local hedge cutter did the main cut with the machine. The hedges won’t grow any more now and the grass is not growing very much either so the garden is in pretty good order ready for the winter. Susan has picked the remaining cooking apples off the trees but the eating apples will need another fortnight before they are ready. We have been feeding any windfalls, apples or pears, to the Red Deer hinds that are in the field adjoining our garden. The trouble is every time I am in the garden they are queuing up waiting for me to feed them and they like the apples so much they are trying to push their heads through the deer fence to get them. When the apples run out they are going to be awfully disappointed!
https://youtu.be/KxQ3z76Ukss
Yesterday evening I caught a Red Underwing moth that was laid up near the roof of our house, I had to get a ladder to reach it but it was easy to get it into a plastic container without any fuss or damage to it. I then put it into a large glass case on our kitchen table and put a cloth over it. It clung to the sides and settled down quite contentedly. I got my macro lens and flash and took two images – one from underneath and one above. Both these images were taken with all the house lights off for effect. These really are a glorious moth with vivid markings.
It was then quickly released where it flew strongly into an Ash tree ready for the night to come.
Canon 7D mk2.
Canon ef100 f2.8 is macro lens.
Yongnuo twin macro flash.
Handheld
Magpie Moth.
I have cut all the straggly bits off the garden hedges after the local hedge cutter did the main cut with the machine. The hedges won’t grow any more now and the grass is not growing very much either so the garden is in pretty good order ready for the winter. Susan has picked the remaining cooking apples off the trees but the eating apples will need another fortnight before they are ready. We have been feeding any windfalls, apples or pears, to the Red Deer hinds that are in the field adjoining our garden. The trouble is every time I am in the garden they are queuing up waiting for me to feed them and they like the apples so much they are trying to push their heads through the deer fence to get them. When the apples run out they are going to be awfully disappointed!
https://youtu.be/KxQ3z76Ukss
Yesterday evening I caught a Red Underwing moth that was laid up near the roof of our house, I had to get a ladder to reach it but it was easy to get it into a plastic container without any fuss or damage to it. I then put it into a large glass case on our kitchen table and put a cloth over it. It clung to the sides and settled down quite contentedly. I got my macro lens and flash and took two images – one from underneath and one above. Both these images were taken with all the house lights off for effect. These really are a glorious moth with vivid markings.
It was then quickly released where it flew strongly into an Ash tree ready for the night to come.
Canon 7D mk2.
Canon ef100 f2.8 is macro lens.
Yongnuo twin macro flash.
Handheld