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Post by willien on Sept 23, 2023 19:59:05 GMT
Thanks for the heads up Andy. |
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Post by zou on Sept 23, 2023 19:59:55 GMT
They usually have good stuff on display, and as well as the gallery they have some scopes set up and a reading area for material from their extensive library. Well worth a visit. |
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Post by willien on Sept 23, 2023 20:09:45 GMT
They usually have good stuff on display, and as well as the gallery they have some scopes set up and a reading area for material from their extensive library. Well worth a visit. Yep. Been there once, the visit was only spoiled slightly by the defference and do not disturb staff mentality re the visiting royalty - Chris Packham. |
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Post by stevewmh on Sept 27, 2023 15:49:53 GMT
Been trying years to get one of these little fellas, then when you list expect him he turns up. Have to say they really are handsome birds  DSC_5663-9-9 by Stephen Hayto, on Flickr |
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Post by stevewmh on Sept 27, 2023 15:53:57 GMT
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Post by willien on Sept 27, 2023 16:14:31 GMT
Saw an osprey hovering like a giant mutant kestrel once. Over the Clyde just outside Abington. |
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Post by zou on Sept 27, 2023 16:36:59 GMT
Saw an osprey hovering like a giant mutant kestrel once. Over the Clyde just outside Abington. Over the Clyde you say? Probably was a giant mutant kestrel. |
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Post by willien on Sept 27, 2023 16:38:39 GMT
Water's clean up by Abington. I swam there as a teen.
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Post by zou on Sept 27, 2023 16:39:25 GMT
Water's clean up by Abington. I swam there as a teen. Since around then there have been reports... |
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Post by gray1720 on Sept 27, 2023 16:54:51 GMT
Kingfishers are stunning, Britain doesn't deserve anything that gorgeous. I didn't realise they could hover either until I popped into the local nature reserve on Dec 31st 2020, and had a 10-minute viewing of one fishing all to myself. No camera, of course, I just dropped in on the way home from the allotment. But in those dark days it made me feel that there was non-locomotive light at the end of the tunnel.
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Post by MJB on Sept 27, 2023 17:22:53 GMT
saw an Osprey hovering like a giant mutant kestrel once. Over the Clyde just outside Abington. That's how Ospreys hunt. You know they're about to stoop down onto a fish when they start hovering. |
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Post by peterob on Oct 9, 2023 17:24:02 GMT
Today's outing a bit disappointing. However, this is a snipe - bearing in mind the effective focal length is 900 mm this is pushing it a bit.  DSCF5902.jpg by Pete, on Flickr as a very hard crop  DSCF5904.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by peterob on Oct 9, 2023 17:42:29 GMT
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Post by spinno on Oct 10, 2023 8:13:12 GMT
A walk around the local country park aerially a tribe of 6 buzzards performing aerobatics, but sadly out of reach for my lens.  |
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Post by spinno on Oct 10, 2023 8:18:18 GMT
And also a pair(?) of kestrels, again at the limit of the lens (250mm, 400mm equivalent) One operating CCTV    |
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