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Post by MJB on Feb 21, 2023 20:46:25 GMT
Caught sight of one of our winter tourists today, a Redwing.  redwing by Martin Bone, on Flickr |
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Post by andy on Feb 22, 2023 12:01:55 GMT
Not my shot but I wonder if folks here can identify it... The photographer knows what it is. Attachment Deleted |
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Post by El Sid on Feb 22, 2023 12:31:35 GMT
From its general shape it looks like some kind of Tern...
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Post by squeamishossifrage on Feb 22, 2023 12:32:09 GMT
White-tailed tropicbird - apart from the red beak, so not sure.
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Post by zou on Feb 22, 2023 12:34:08 GMT
Not my shot but I wonder if folks here can identify it... The photographer knows what it is. View Attachment Long-tailed moiré bird. |
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Post by andy on Feb 22, 2023 12:43:06 GMT
White-tailed tropicbird - apart from the red beak, so not sure. Do you have them on Cyprus too? My folks went to Fuerteventura recently. Apparently it visited a pond outside a supermarket at 4pm every day and was something of an attraction. |
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Post by squeamishossifrage on Feb 22, 2023 13:47:37 GMT
Do you have them on Cyprus too? My folks went to Fuerteventura recently. Apparently it visited a pond outside a supermarket at 4pm every day and was something of an attraction. None in the Med to the best of my knowledge. Being an ex-sailorman, I have a few books on seabirds - so I looked it up! |
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Post by MJB on Mar 6, 2023 12:51:28 GMT
It's like a war zone out there today. It started with the ravens doing aerobatics to piss the crows off. Numerical superiority trumps brawn and the crows won. The ravens weren't happy so took it out on the red kite. This attracted a couple of buzzards much to the crows displeasure.
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Post by gray1720 on Mar 6, 2023 13:46:44 GMT
Got a soundtrack to that for you:
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Post by peterob on Mar 24, 2023 17:57:59 GMT
Ah, was looking for this thread the other day and decided I was mis-remembering. I normally ignore Canada geese as being a bit 'easy' but there wasn't an awful lot about last weekend when we had a short walk alongside Ellesmere.  DSCF1657.jpg by Pete, on Flickr Showing off I think. I've seen them attack in this position but I reckon this was posing.  DSCF1635.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by peterob on Mar 24, 2023 18:02:37 GMT
Disappointing pics really of these Great Crested Grebes. They were a bit far away and pootling about under cover of a weeping willow.  DSCF1616.jpg by Pete, on Flickr not really got the hang of the AF on the Fuji. The very clever autodetect on birds (body => head => eye) really doesn't like anything that is not in profile.  DSCF1617.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by peterob on Mar 24, 2023 18:05:11 GMT
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Post by stevewmh on Mar 25, 2023 8:28:39 GMT
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Post by stevewmh on Mar 25, 2023 8:44:15 GMT
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Post by peterob on Mar 29, 2023 16:09:12 GMT
Messing around with a new toy. Boring gull shot but this would ordinarily be out of reach hand-held 1/120 s effective focal length 900 mm mild crop in post.  DSCF3124.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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