|  | | 
05-02-2006, 07:55 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,328
| | | Best buy
What has been your best buy in the last 12 months. For me it has to be Merrell walking shoes and a heartbeat monitor. I am up to walking at least 6 miles a day now. 3 in the morning before work and 3 in the evening. Usually the same route, either back to front, only streets but will be back in the park as soon as it gets light again. |
05-02-2006, 08:13 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: uk
Posts: 924
| | | Re: Best buy
ok, I'm cheating, it's the best buy in 16 months. 
My Zeiss FL 8x42 binoculars. A marvellous purchase, and I wouldn't be without them. |
05-02-2006, 08:27 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Horsham W Sussex
Posts: 1,474
| | | Re: Best buy
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Boddie What has been your best buy in the last 12 months. For me it has to be Merrell walking shoes and a heartbeat monitor. I am up to walking at least 6 miles a day now. 3 in the morning before work and 3 in the evening. Usually the same route, either back to front, only streets but will be back in the park as soon as it gets light again. | Nice one Boddie............I think merrell make the most comfortable footwear around.
I have bought far too much stuff in the past 12 months inc new laptop, pda and loads of bushcrafting equipment, but I think my favourite buy is a swanndri bushshirt, which is the best outdoor shirt/jacket you can get.............Jon |
05-02-2006, 09:08 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NW England
Posts: 1,974
| | | Re: Best buy
Last 12 months? I'd say my "Bigma" aka the Sigma 50-500mm EX DG HSM blah blah blah lens.
__________________ Oy 'Owning a camera makes you a photographer in the same way that owning a guitar makes you a musician.' www.OYPhotos.co.uk |
05-02-2006, 09:15 PM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: uk
Posts: 924
| | | Re: Best buy
Damn! I forgot!
It wasn't the bins, it was the 20D along with the 100-400 lens! How on earth could I have forgotton those purchases!!! |
05-02-2006, 09:22 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Gloucester
Posts: 1,382
| | | Re: Best buy
Canon 1D MkII N camera and the Canon 600mm f4 IS USM lens, but I'm sure my wife wouldn't agree lol |
05-02-2006, 09:40 PM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: uk
Posts: 924
| | | Re: Best buy
My dream purchase, the 600mm F4 lens Ho hum.... |
05-02-2006, 09:47 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Gloucester
Posts: 1,382
| | | Re: Best buy
just thought I would add the cheapest best buy was a bean bag :-) made a world of difference to my work |
06-02-2006, 08:16 AM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
Posts: 6,404
| | | Re: Best buy
NikonD70s,,treadmill for the lioness,benbow tripod,book Gardeners Latin, lastolite reflector,Avon Wildlife Trust,Books from Abe
__________________
You cannot maintain an ecology, if you lose any of the pieces. |
06-02-2006, 07:26 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,328
| | | Re: Best buy
I won my 350D so that does not count, but had I bought it... |
06-02-2006, 07:28 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,328
| | | Re: Best buy
I have to say that most of your purchases we have all benefitted from. What a result |
06-02-2006, 07:53 PM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: uk
Posts: 924
| | | Re: Best buy
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Boddie I won my 350D so that does not count, but had I bought it... | Blimey - what a superb prize! |
06-02-2006, 08:23 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Leicestershire
Posts: 3,555
| | | Re: Best buy
My best buy in the last year has to be my new Toshiba laptop & photoshop elements 4 as it's given me access to high-power image editing in the field. |
06-02-2006, 08:37 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 2,614
| | | Re: Best buy
Mine was my Canon 400L sharp as a knife. |
08-02-2006, 11:34 AM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Coventry
Posts: 5,692
| | | Re: Best buy
Thankfully I didn't need to improve any of my birding equipment and camera in the last twelve months but there was one thing I received in the last twelve months that stands out.
Technically it doesn't go in this best buy catergory because I was given it for free by a friend. It is a Mecury Vapour Moth Trap and once the spring is here you will see this trap out in the garden most weekends collecting my garden moths. I am by no means an expert on identyfying moths but love trying to work out the different species and also photographing them.
John |
08-02-2006, 01:15 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Banbury, Oxfordshire
Posts: 551
| | | Re: Best buy
id have to say its my camera, not as fancy as the rest but my best buy none the less, the panasonic fz5
__________________
You don't need eyes to see, you need vision |
08-02-2006, 03:18 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sunny Doncaster
Posts: 4,328
| | | Re: Best buy
Pheonix
Judging by your photos you obviously dont need a fancy camera.
good shots |
08-02-2006, 05:37 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Leicestershire
Posts: 3,555
| | | Re: Best buy
Quote: |
Originally Posted by John It is a Mecury Vapour Moth Trap and once the spring is here you will see this trap out in the garden most weekends collecting my garden moths. I am by no means an expert on identyfying moths but love trying to work out the different species and also photographing them. John | Wow , what a great gift.
I'm just getting into mothing myself, I've got a couple of good friends that have been mothing for years & I've started going with them.
I find it fascinating & very addictive, there's alot to learn when it comes to moths, plus theres an added bonus, you get to photograph some stunning insects that you would otherwise rarely see. |
08-02-2006, 05:51 PM
| | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
Posts: 6,404
| | | Re: Best buy
I got a good buy a while back from www.pwbelg.clara.net and of course my ikea mosquito net used in conjunction the link used to take me to a site that sold mercury vapour lamp kits
__________________
You cannot maintain an ecology, if you lose any of the pieces. |
08-02-2006, 06:01 PM
| | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Coventry
Posts: 5,692
| | | Re: Best buy
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Fourwings Wow , what a great gift.
I'm just getting into mothing myself, I've got a couple of good friends that have been mothing for years & I've started going with them.
I find it fascinating & very addictive, there's alot to learn when it comes to moths, plus theres an added bonus, you get to photograph some stunning insects that you would otherwise rarely see. | Attached is the trap my mate Steve gave me. He is running a new Mercury Vapour as well as an Actinic and this trap was going spare.
I must admit I do enjoy getting up early, collecting the moths and looking at them later in the day, photographing them and then trying to ID them. It also gives you something else to do in the more notoriously quieter birding months around June.
I have put a few of my photographs in the Moths gallery but hopefully I will add more. The trouble is there doesn't seem too much interest in them so I stopped posting them to the gallery. |
08-02-2006, 06:01 PM
| | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
Posts: 6,404
| | | Re: Best buy
__________________
You cannot maintain an ecology, if you lose any of the pieces. |
08-02-2006, 08:05 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Leicestershire
Posts: 3,555
| | | Re: Best buy
Quote: |
Originally Posted by nightshade | Thanks for the heads up on that site Nightshade, excellent prices.  |
08-02-2006, 08:14 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Leicestershire
Posts: 3,555
| | | Re: Best buy
Quote: |
Originally Posted by John I must admit I do enjoy getting up early, collecting the moths and looking at them later in the day, photographing them and then trying to ID them. It also gives you something else to do in the more notoriously quieter birding months around June.
I have put a few of my photographs in the Moths gallery but hopefully I will add more. The trouble is there doesn't seem too much interest in them so I stopped posting them to the gallery. | You have got to have a go at doing an all night mothing session John, a truely amazing experience.
The chaps I go out with usually run 4 or 5 MV traps plus 2 actinics, then they set up an MV blub suspended over a white sheet, this is fantastic fun as you catch the moths as they come in, it can get very frantic, plus the bulb attracts other insects as well, Beetles, Hornets & even the odd Dragonfly!
As for posting moth photos, keep posting them, I'm sure loads of people will be interested in them, I know I am. |
08-02-2006, 08:32 PM
| | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Coventry
Posts: 5,692
| | | Re: Best buy
Quote: |
Originally Posted by Fourwings You have got to have a go at doing an all night mothing session John, a truely amazing experience.
The chaps I go out with usually run 4 or 5 MV traps plus 2 actinics, then they set up an MV blub suspended over a white sheet, this is fantastic fun as you catch the moths as they come in, it can get very frantic, plus the bulb attracts other insects as well, Beetles, Hornets & even the odd Dragonfly!
As for posting moth photos, keep posting them, I'm sure loads of people will be interested in them, I know I am. | We are hijacking the thread a bit withour talk of mothing but I will say that I have run my trap all night but as I only have the one trap it is a bit limited. I usually place in a position near the washing line and at the same time hang a white sheet over the line quite near to the trap. This does catch me moths both in the trap and on the sheet.
BTW I did catch a Brown Hawker in the trap last year and I have posted a photo of it in the gallery. |
08-02-2006, 08:55 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Leicestershire
Posts: 3,555
| | | Re: Best buy
Quote: |
Originally Posted by John We are hijacking the thread a bit withour talk of mothing. | Oops, I've started another thread for talk of all things related to Mothing.  | | |
| Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | |
|
