Turning out to be quite a day - blazing stars in the Pleiades Cluster now a cluster of Vultures
Monday, November 3, 2014 at 2:19PM I have more data than I can cope with - I took about 700 X 10 second images of the variable star BL Cam last night and I need to process those - images of Supernova ASASSN14jg have arrived from two telescopes at Siding Spring and when I went out on my walk I came across a spiralling group of these:
No - that's not the group - this is the group
I counted over 50 Griffon Vultures over Cabrera - with typical wing spans of about 7 ft!
I was trying to get nearer by climbing up the hill but they were drifting away - I wish I had spotted them earlier. By the time I got to a really good vantage point ,struggling for breath I should say, they had gone - probably in Africa by now - it is just across the Med. However I managed to get over 70 photographs of them - hoping that some of them would be in focus - manually focusing at a distance is difficult and autofocus does not work for me for birds at a distance.
A few more images.
I looked back at the house when i got up the hill.
and I am came across this
and then this
