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Thanks Russ , They're hard enough sometimes when they're adults , but juvenile females all look surprisingly similar ...

A few easily identifiable critters before bedtime and a couple of birds I need help with please. The Harlequin Ladybird larva is a vritable armoured machine close-up ... The baby Long-tailed Tits were having a proper knees up , about thirty of them but only one sat and posed ... all under the watchful eye of the young Crow who was swiftly shooed away before his ideas of an easy supper came to be. And these last two I need help with , both look "warbler" to me with the first maybe a female Yellow-browed Warbler ... ?

The song is "If you don't dig the blues" , it may help in your search for a copy especially if you're using a remote e-bay search/notification program .

One extreme to another this morning , a nice steady atmosphere let me capture a lovely busy Sun in nice detail and then a tiny jumping spider popped into range as I was processing the solar stuff. (Sun false coloured) He wouldn't sit still for me though and eventually took to hiding in a crack in the shiplap , the tile is 6"x6" and he was tucked away in the crack in the little yellow box above it ... And finally for those that think planets are only available at night a snatched shot of the Moon and Jupiter in the morning light , handheld with the 90D and Sigma 150-600.

I would assume the quality control dept would perform a similar test before sending a stamper to a pressing plant ? Hence maybe the lack of pressing plant stamps present on the 45. Would seem odd to me to send something often hundreds of miles away before it was tested and potentially returned with all the associated rigamarole .

Just a test press to check the stamper for that particular side of the 45 surely , I would think that would be a not particularly unusual event at a metal mastering plant.

That's a badly handcut label , probably stuck on the Outta Site boot for some silly vanity thing. Zoom in on the cutout round the centre.

Was quietly minding my own business cooking my tea when I spotted this one casually walking towards the kitchen window ... 🥰 Luckily the 100mm Laowa macro was on the 550D after I'd been messing about with the 90D earlier , I bought it for getting close up and personal with tiny creepy-crawlies but it makes a fine portrait lens too ... There are some benefits of single glazing after all , shot from 3 feet ... And people keep asking me why I don't move into town to be nearer civilisation ...

It's only a camera , how hard could it be ...

Came with no manual , I've just got a 400 odd page PDF to wade through ...

Just grabbed the 45 for £11.50 on fleabay , my first online auction bid and win ... All about £40 on Discogs and the other three on the bay are 25/44/45 .

Just took delivery of the 'new' Canon EOS 90D ... and now the whole new learning cycle begins ...

"Harder You Love" is on YT .

I nearly forgot this little fella I spotted today ... a new one on me. Turns out its a"Scorpion Fly" or Panorpa communis ...

Well I guess Mr Buteo was feeling a little left out so he gave me a show today ... And an airliner bisecting the blue just because ...

There are some great bargains out there at the moment as all the hipsters are jumping over to mirrorless , MPB , WEX and Park Cameras have had their fair share off me of late , and having used SLRs and now DSLRs for 44 years I shall see my days out on them ...

Hi Kegsy , Sorry I forgot to add the details ... yes it was with the Sigma 150-600 C @ 600mm and the EOS 2000D. Have just this minute grabbed a pre-loved EOS 90D bargain to accompany the lens in future , traded in the Sigma teleconverters for it in PartEx as they were an unnecessary step to be honest , but you have to try these things ... I'll use the 2000D with the Laowa 100mm F/2.8 2X Ultra Macro APO now as a permanent macro set up.

I had "that" feeling that I was being spied on as I packed away the solar imaging rig today ... Lo and behold I caught this one keeping a beady eye on proceedings ...

If you liked "Sisu" then you'll probably like another new one in a similar vein ... "Blood & Gold" ... Been available for a while but only recently popped up dubbed in English .

This one slipped by me unnoticed ... thanks for the post , just started S1 ... pretty much "Kitchen Confidential" and a pretty realistic interpretation of life backstage of a restaurant ...

Tried again tonight , but to be honest the theme tune's the best bit , gave up after 15 minutes. Thoroughly unimpressed and disappointed ...

Shane Meadow's latest offering "The Gallows Pole" started tonight on BBC 2 , looks a good'un ... And it's got a cracking theme tune too ...

"Steeltown Murders" on BBC iPlayer is well put together.

Mick L is your man for this .... @Hooker1951

A brief , late , and somewhat distant glimpse of one of Duxford's finest ... Must get myself in that back seat very soon ...