365/301: 17 December 2010: A Fat Rabbit

Obviously getting a bit complacent because I nearly missed today’s shot. Think this may be the first appearance for Tubs – our second rabbit. Am always amused by the idea that dwarf rabbits could be so large. Tubs weights around 7 pounds and has the worlds largest dewlap. Very inquisitive too – which was handy as she kept staring at me so I had time for this one:

365/300: 16 December 2010: A Marmalade Tail

A bit of a fun shot tonight to mark the start of the home straight. Marmalade wouldn’t play ball for a portrait – typical cat – so I went for a shot of his tail instead. mildly eccentric perhaps but I quite like it.

365/296: 12 December 2010: Mosher - again

Nice colourful shot this. Mosher is obviously a bit of a media tart – likes to sit and pose while the flash guns fire.

365/245: 22 October 2010: Ginger Marmalade

The cat is called Marmalade – my daughter wont forgive me for the other reference.

365/85: 15 May 2010: A First Appearance for…

…Marmalade the family moggie. And, as usual, he’s curled up in the warmest spot he could find. He’s obviously being deliberately coy in this shot, as I was less than a foot from him when I took the photo.

365/80: 10 May 2010: Every home should have one

Time to introduce another of my pets – Colin the Crayfish. More accurately, it should be Coleen the Crayfish as she produced about 50 young 3 weeks after I got her – but she was already Colin by that time and it stuck.
Currently she’s about 3 inches long, and appears to have stopped moulting for a while.  She certainly adds a bit of personality to my tank – its fascinating watching her walk about on her 6 back legs while feeding with the front 4. Probably not ideal if you’ve got spider-phobia though.
Not really sure what variety she is – but the fish-shop guy assures me that this is about as big as she’ll get. According to the books I may have her for 20 years.

PS – She does have two fairly hefty claws at the front, but doesn’t appear to want to use them.

365/77: 07 May 2010: A bird of very little brain

As you may have noticed from a previous post, Mosher the Lovebird is pretty well accustomed to human company and habits – so much so in fact that during this evenings constitutional flap he decided to try fish and chips.  He eventually decided he didn’t like them – but hey – no-one’s perfect.

365/72: 02 May 2010: Walking the Bunny

We have two dwarf lops. I’m not sure how a dwarf rabbit can be the size of a football – but apparently they are. And that despite the fact that they have a run in the garden and sometimes get taken for a little walkies – just like this.

365 Challenge Day 37 – 28 March 2010 – Mosher the Lovebird makes a first appearance

Went for a stroll around Keswick this morning and bizarrely nothing took my fancy. Was sitting at the computer fiddling with the camera when Mosher cam and sat on my shoulder.  This is just the sort of thing that the hinged viewing screen on the camera was made for, so I popped off a couple of shots. This was the best because I moved to the window so that I was lit by sunlight and the rest of the room was in relative darkness.
Mosher seems to like sitting on my shoulder, when he isn’t trying to chew my fingers on the mouse. While it may look very cute, I can’t help but notice that the last time I saw a beak like that it was on a kestrel. That and the fact that Lovebirds like to strip bark from branches, and as he’s a bird of very little brain – my neck looks pretty much like a branch!

365 Challenge – Day 5 – 24 Feb 2010

Thought I’d have a stab at photographing one of my other hobbies today – which provides a whole set of challenges of its own.