do you...

[Satchmo]

...use the amount of wildlife in your garden that day as a measurand for whether you go out looking for some pics?? It's really cloudy here with the odd sunny spell but I have not seen any butterflies yet. After a miserable day yesterday where I saw nothing I'm not sure whether to go out.

Cheers

Simon

[RichBrew]

Satchmo:

Go out, anyway. You never know what you'll get. Many a time I've been out before dawn, in the hope of good light. Sometimes it doesn't happen, and I don't expose a single frame. But occasionally, I get something totally unexpected and fleeting, which others don't see as they've stayed at home.

RichBrew

[ron1863]

I usually go by the weather. If it's nice and the dog wants a walk I lift the camera and go. It doesn't matter if there is lots of wildlife in the garden, I always see something interesting to photograph

[nightshade]

A dull day nothing moving? go and look things don't just stop eating,
If it is reasonably warm you will find amphibs.,Moths etc.it is like looking at a rocky beach the tide receding,look in the rock pools flotsam jettsam there is always something

[Satchmo]

Cheers guys, it was just the push that I needed

I was sneaking around in the long grass and just missed out on a blue tit pic and it started raining. I thought "there is no way I will see any Dragonflies today" and immediately after thinking that I saw one land in a nettle bush. I couldn't have made it up!! Anyway, sneaked up and got this pic.





Not a bad pic but I feel the background makes it a little confusing.
I saw quite a few things, a Violet Ground Beetle, an Ichneumon wasp and loads of Speckled Wood Butterflies. I also saw a different species of Dragonfly but didn't manage to get pics of any of these

Simon

[nightshade]

When I used to fish for Chub carrying just rod line and bait,I frequently found Dragonflies
taking the last rays of the sun on Elderberry bushes alongside the river or canal banks

[eeyore]

i work on the principal of always go out - theres always something worth seing. The other night i had parked our work truck up by a church and pond to make a phone call and while on the phone i say numerous bats , a vixen with cubs, and a barn owl - all in the space of about 45 mins

[Hobjob]

Originally Posted by eeyore

i work on the principal of always go out - theres always something worth seing. The other night i had parked our work truck up by a church and pond to make a phone call and while on the phone i say numerous bats , a vixen with cubs, and a barn owl - all in the space of about 45 mins

That was long phone call

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by Hobjob

That was long phone call

not really , thats pretty short by my standards