AJStrees

Goldcrests are such small and very cute birds. Can never get a decent photo of them though. One of a number of birds I would like to photograph. The young ones seem prone to banging into windows, we had one the other week that knocked itself out, recovered though after a few minutes and flew off.

What was the verdict on the best trousers for that then?

Nice! 👍

Got a bit of mowing in before it got too heavy, but those out parading will be very wet.

Wet all day here 😰

Cheers mate. Yeah having upgraded to a bigger lens for the camera about 4 times to get to a satisfying result, I understand what you mean. 👍 sounds like it would be a good place to get some nice shots.

Cheers mate, much appreciated 👍always more to learn.

Sorry to keep posting pictures but I’ve been working on improving my bird shots with slightly different settings on the camera.

Nice work Mick. Keeping it tight!! 👍

One of the ducks had success.

Big tree. What do people use the timber for?

Nice work and great video mate. Like those big spruce. 👍

Could it be Lapwing? Not sure but that’s all I can find looking online. Would be a nice find if it is 👍

I think willow tits are even more rare.

We have a pair of kestrel’s nesting up in a big pine tree. She was perched preening right at the top early evening. Heron popped by along with the cormorant. lots of fallow dear out I. The woods as well. Try to capture (photos) when I can.

First and third shot are my favourites. Nice colouring with the male Kestrel.

Yes pretty sure it’s a Marsh tit. Don’t see many of them. 👍

Yes mate Marsh tit. Great little bird. 👍

Not up to Pete’s standard but got a small sit in hide by the feeders to be able to get some better shots of the garden birds of late.

Superb stuff. Catching that takes some skill 👍

Nice. Don't see many around here, though I am sure they must be about. Lots of Tawny Owls. Hopefully see some chicks later in the season. 👍

If you are trying to do edging and things on lawns and around trees and detailed type strimming. Loop handle is definitely better for that. I have hundreds of metres of lawn edging to do and the fastest way is to turn the strimmer upside down and strim all the edges to a pretty much perfect straight edge. Additionally if you are strimming around trees then it is best to angle away from the trunk so that you don't hit the bark but just the grass. There are a lot of things you cannot do with handlebars on a strimmer. For big jobs and lots of heavy grass cutting, etc.. then for sure handlebars are the best option for that. That's my experience and I am sure others may have something else to say. But having used strimmers of all kinds for many years in many different situations that's what I would say. Battery wise I use EGO strimmers, they are very handy to use, have automatic wind in of the strimmer line with what they call powerload heads, their professional range are carbon fibre so nice and light, they have about 15 different battery sizes you can choose from. They are also fairly good price wise and come with good warranties on both the equipment and the batteries.

but I appreciate that is not necessarily how everyone else might think. 👍

I suppose being that the timber is never perfect in the first place, the holes never seem to be a problem, I only screw a small way in to the top of the log to hold the ladder in place. If someone is going to use a slab to make a table, they will generally want to get the timber machined, through a thicknesser, planed, any and all imperfections filled, epoxy resin or oiled/varnished, etc... by the time that is all done, the 4 holes I put in are no issue. 👍 IMHO