|
|
Post by zou on Nov 10, 2023 16:39:47 GMT
Slavonian Grebe. St. Margaret's Loch, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh
Seems quite happy there, I wonder how long it'll stay. |
|
|
|
Post by willien on Nov 10, 2023 16:47:18 GMT
It's been there a few days now so who knows. The light was "challenging" but fortunately after reviewing my shots from our recent holiday I corrected my custom setting to take raw as well as jpegs otherwise the highlights would have been completely irrecoverable.
|
|
|
|
Post by zou on Nov 10, 2023 17:34:44 GMT
It's been there a few days now so who knows. The light was "challenging" but fortunately after reviewing my shots from our recent holiday I corrected my custom setting to take raw as well as jpegs otherwise the highlights would have been completely irrecoverable. They are frequently seen over at Musselburgh/Forth so it's not hugely surprising, but it's nice to have it in town. |
|
|
|
Post by willien on Nov 10, 2023 18:15:13 GMT
It's been there a few days now so who knows. The light was "challenging" but fortunately after reviewing my shots from our recent holiday I corrected my custom setting to take raw as well as jpegs otherwise the highlights would have been completely irrecoverable. They are frequently seen over at Musselburgh/Forth so it's not hugely surprising, but it's nice to have it in town. We used to have little grebes breeding at Blackford pond. Then the gulls moved in and started eating every young bird that did not have swans as parents. |
|
|
|
Post by spinno on Nov 15, 2023 22:11:19 GMT
Cormorant in the harbour at St Ives  |
|
|
|
Post by peterob on Nov 16, 2023 17:36:21 GMT
Possibly a Juvenile (1st winter) male Common Scoter. Adult Males are black with a distinctive beak marking. Females are brown with dark cap and light cheeks but no beak marking. Books describe them as floating high in the water with an elevated tail but this was low in the water with tail submerged. Can't see what else it could be.  DSCF6363.jpg by Pete, on Flickr  DSCF6359.jpg by Pete, on Flickr  DSCF6355.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
|
|
|
Post by peterob on Nov 16, 2023 18:03:09 GMT
I'm not bovvered. .... and I can't be bothered to identify it, just a snap because it was sat there, probably Herring Gull.  DSCF6479.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
|
|
|
Post by spinno on Nov 16, 2023 18:11:06 GMT
I'm not bovvered. .... and I can't be bothered to identify it, just a snap because it was sat there, probably Herring Gull. DSCF6479.jpg by Pete, on Flickr That's him, he nicked my pork pie twenty years ago in St Ives, thieving barsteward. |
|
|
|
Post by zou on Nov 16, 2023 18:17:50 GMT
Possibly a Juvenile (1st winter) male Common Scoter. Adult Males are black with a distinctive beak marking. Females are brown with dark cap and light cheeks but no beak marking. Books describe them as floating high in the water with an elevated tail but this was low in the water with tail submerged. Can't see what else it could be. DSCF6363.jpg by Pete, on Flickr DSCF6359.jpg by Pete, on Flickr DSCF6355.jpg by Pete, on Flickr Sure it's a scoter, possibly surf or black? I don't see enough scoters/close enough to have insight. Loads in the Forth, often including rarer ones, but past the range of my scope. |
|
|
|
Post by peterob on Nov 16, 2023 19:11:09 GMT
Sure it's a scoter, possibly surf or black? I don't see enough scoters/close enough to have insight. Loads in the Forth, often including rarer ones, but past the range of my scope. Not at all, other than that two birdwatchers asked if I'd seen it and one indicated the location. The RSPB handbook says (of Common) that 1st winter birds have female coloration but most sources just describe the adult male and female. If it is a Scoter then it is a Common one, the other variants are unlikely. We missed some snow buntings by about an hour and someone was in hope of a great Northern Diver but all I saw was a distant cormorant. |
|
|
|
Post by zou on Nov 16, 2023 19:25:53 GMT
Sure it's a scoter, possibly surf or black? I don't see enough scoters/close enough to have insight. Loads in the Forth, often including rarer ones, but past the range of my scope. Not at all, other than that two birdwatchers asked if I'd seen it and one indicated the location. The RSPB handbook says (of Common) that 1st winter birds have female coloration but most sources just describe the adult male and female. If it is a Scoter then it is a Common one, the other variants are unlikely. We missed some snow buntings by about an hour and someone was in hope of a great Northern Diver but all I saw was a distant cormorant. Sorry, badly phrased. I am sure it's a scoter, the overall form is right I think. Just not sure which type and what age. |
|
|
|
Post by peterob on Nov 16, 2023 22:39:38 GMT
A turnstone. Shame it was such a dull day. ISO 3200 barely enough to avoid motion blur and detail not so good.  DSCF6430.jpg by Pete, on Flickr Edit: another turnstone picture  DSCF6408.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
|
|
|
Post by peterob on Nov 16, 2023 22:43:52 GMT
Not the greatest Little Egret picture but makes a change to see them at the sea-shore, more usually in-land on scrapes.  DSCF6464.jpg by Pete, on Flickr |
|
|
|
Post by willien on Nov 16, 2023 22:47:21 GMT
Not the greatest Little Egret picture but makes a change to see them at the sea-shore, more usually in-land on scrapes. DSCF6464.jpg by Pete, on Flickr The yellow foot has it.  |
|
|
|
Post by andy on Nov 21, 2023 11:41:12 GMT
Anyone seen any Waxwing? Apparently its a bumper year for them up here.
Not seen any myself yet.
|
|
