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"Odds & Sods" (old version) - please add to the new thread 2020 instead !

HAZY
02/03/2018 02:18

THIS THREAD IS NOW DISCONTINUED,   please add to the new 2020 thread HERE

Often we don't have enough photos to create a full thread so thought I'd start an Odds & Sods thread where you may want to add a pic or two when you don't have enough for their own thread .    Feel free to add your rogues gallery here ! 

I only had a couple of pics today, one a Treecreeper and the other a very hacked off looking Great Egret huddled against the reeds trying to keep warm !

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Regards, Hazel 

  • 16/03/2019 22:30 in reply to Paul Cousins
    Great pics Paul, lovely to see the Nuthatch collecting for it's nest.

    Lot to learn

  • 17/03/2019 06:49

    Black Tailed Godwit already showing his Summer Plumage, taken yesterday.

  • 17/03/2019 09:07
    Great set of photos Alan and good to see the blue sky as we sit under a thick dark blanket of cloud with rain and hailstone in-between. It's pretty cold too so not surprised you have snow ! Roll on springtime and the warblers return :)

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    Regards, Hazel 

  • 17/03/2019 14:36

    At last, a photo of a Jay, it had to happen eventually.!!  :-)

    This is actually a good sighting for me. They're very, very shy where I tend to see them.

    My bird photos HERE

  • 17/03/2019 15:08
    Well done Paul finding your Jay, they are such attractive corvids but they have to have one of the worst sounds I've heard with their typical screech lol

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    Regards, Hazel 

  • 17/03/2019 19:56 in reply to HAZY

    Not seen any migrant Chiffchaffs, yet, Alan, let alone any singing.

    I'm with you, Paul, the local Jays are extremely secretive and it's only at Leighton Moss that I occasionally get close.

    Unknown said:
    we sit under a thick dark blanket of cloud with rain and hailstone in-between

    This is what greeted me on my way out this morning - an imminent but rather spectacular hail storm over a local reservoir. The two gulls are Lesser Black-backs by the way Slight smile

    In fact, I don't think I've taken a bird photo all week (a part from the gulls above) with the incessant wind and storms but I always think that's when to go and do landscape photography (no blue skies here please!) Earlier, while exploring migrant hotspots on the moors in readiness for next month I also got this stormy shot of a local landmark in the West Pennine Moors. It's only a stone's throw from where Flycatchers (both), Cuckoos, and even Ring Ouzels are supposed to stop over, so fingers crossed!

     

    Both shots are obviously heavily done in Photoshop, to recreate traditional B&W darkroom styles.

    Maybe I'll get some birds next week!

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    Nige   Flickr

  • 17/03/2019 20:20
    Paul your patience has paid off at last, I have heard quite a number of Jays and seen them flying away screeching, but yet to see any perched,

    Lot to learn

  • 17/03/2019 20:22
    Hope you had your waterproofs with you Nigel, your photos are very dramatic and who can believe we had such glorious weather a month ago:-)

    Lot to learn

  • 18/03/2019 04:29

    A big flock of about 10-12 Yellowhammer in Brixham yesterday with 3-4 Cirl Buntings landed in a bush for a few minutes, giving me just enough time to get closer and photograph the ones that were not obscured.