Tag Archives: Birds

Co. Antrim

The Ballymena Birds

I’ve shot a couple of birds in the Ballymena area recently.

I spotted this goose on Sat 8th February 2025 when I was helping with the photos at the Parkrun held weekly at Ecos Park. Try clicking this link to see the Parkrun photos:

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On a smaller scale,

This wily old bird sits on the barrier at Tannaghmore Service area, on the A26 road between Antrim and Ballymena, and stares at motorists eating in their cars, knowing that eventually someone will cave in and give it a morsel or two.
(Ok, I’m not an ornithologist, so I’ve been informed it’s a Rook, or whatever!)

But I do know it was photographed with the Fujifilm X-T5, F=300mm, f/5 @ 1/500th sec on ISO400/

Lockdown Logs

The Lockdown Logs #44

The Lockdown Logs

Dateline: May 15th 2020

Well, stone the crows!  This fellow came and sat beside my car when I was in the petrol station!  It was a salutary lesson, one I should have heeded many years ago – that a camera in it’s bag is no use at all!  This old crow came and sat a few feet away from me, – cocking its head to give me a good examination…  But the Fujifilm X-T30 was tucked away inside its camera bag beside me.  By the time I’d got the camera out, he’d walked away along the fence, and then I needed to waste more time changing to a telephoto lens.

Crow
Fujifilm X-T30, F=128mm, f/6.4 @ 1/160th sec on ISO400