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puzzledpaul
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Shield bugs

Post by puzzledpaul »

Been a lot of SB activity here recently

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Scratching those 'difficult to reach' places is even more involved when you've got wings'n stuff in the way :)


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Considering what it'd been doing a few frames earlier (insert) ... it made me wonder what the contents had been on that occasion ... after experiencing its behaviour shown in the main frame.

(It's on a tripod leg, btw ... was packing up, placed tripod down, gone to fetch other kit and noticed this 'blob of green' ... :) .... so, ended up being a 2 tripod job. )



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Considering what the pair of SB's were upto ... a very unwelcome visitor ... but they didn't stop what they were doing and the newcomer flew off shortly after this 'Terry Wogan' moment. (TW is a TV/radio presenter in UK who used to have something of a 'name' for touching the knee of his interviewee )

Canon 10D + 200mm FD macro + converter
Tripod etc
Natural light
Uncropped

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Post by beetleman »

Some great shots Paul. I like the first one, shows a lot of detail on the wings and wing covers that you do not normally see :smt023.
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Post by puzzledpaul »

Thanks, Doug - yes, I was lucky to be around during the preening exercise in #1 - first time for me and only lasted a couple of minutes or so :)

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Post by MacroLuv »

Very nice Paul! :D
It is not often to see those guys putting their wings in action.
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