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This is the current state of the #SolarEclipse from here. It will only be #partial and maximum coverage will be in about fifteen minutes' time. The clouds actually helped to filter out some of the sunlight.
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Sitting outside for tea is very pleasant, especially as you can see many fleeting guests dropping by.
Here's a female #sparrow sitting momentarily on the fence before departing to eat from a neighbour's bird feeder.
This male #blackbird was singing in another neighbour's tree.
Pigeons forage on the ground, looking for seeds. This one was looking the other way.
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#Birds naturally tend to move rapidly around the area and so it is sometimes difficult to be able to record the various species passing by. I often see #starlings around but not often in the #garden. In this first #photograph, you can see three of them sharing a fence with two #sparrows and a mystery bird. These #pictures span no more than about three minutes of time.
Here's more detail of the bird whose species I don't know along with its mate. Can anybody help identify it?
A minute later this #Jay arrived and because it's a predator, the other birds soon vacated the area but you could hear them sounding alarms to others. You can see that its #feathers are ruffled and so I think it has recently been in some sort of altercation.
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This is a #HouseSparrow which I think lives in the loft of my own house.
I've often seen these #birds feeding off something from the underside of #rose #leaves and long suspected that they were feeding off #aphids but I used to think that they only eat #seeds.
Here's confirmation that it is indeed feeding on #greenfly. If you've ever watched the film #ABugsLife then you can appreciate how terrifying these #birds would be to tiny #insects.
I like the interplay of #shadow and #sunlight in this #photograph
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After many days of cold, windy, rainy days, it's sunny are settled. There are currently around fifty #bees on this plant, which stretches about 1.5 m from discernibly different species. This #bumblebee was the biggest of the bunch which I estimate was a shade under 3 cm in length.
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A couple of km away from the previous #photograph, you can see some quite lush #vegeation in #Dartmoor.
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I've just been reviewing some #photographs from a few years ago. Here is one of somewhere on #Dartmoor, near #Hexworthy. I like the rather bleak beauty of the place with scant but hardy vegetation in the exposed areas. The #geology is that of weathered #granite which develop into #tors.
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As the #sky was brightening but before the #sun had risen, the #Moon made its appearance in the east. It is in its #WaningCrescent #phase and probably the last time I will be able to #photograph it in this cycle (there's a storm forecast for tomorrow and it will rise very close to the time of #sunrise).
#Exposure time of 1/200 s.
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It was a clear #night/morning and so I took these #photographs of #Jupiter, which is currently rising a couple of hours before #sunrise. You can clearly discern the #planet's largest #moons. The #pictures were take at around 03:20 UTC.
This first one has an #exposure time of 1/2 s and the moons are faint.
This one is a 2 s exposure and slightly blurred but the moons can be seen better.
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