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  • cyberyacht
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    edited December 2019 #2582

    Seems to use the same hairdresser as Bojo.

  • greylag
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    edited December 2019 #2583

    Bm....we do have a Blue tit that sleeps in our box all winter. 

    Having a camera installed is the only way we know.

    Never more than the single bird.

  • Bluemalaga
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    edited December 2019 #2584

    Thanks GL might give that a try after this winter, how effective are they in the darkness of the box? 

    There was a Blue Tit that roosted under and inside our security light, wondering if this is the cause of this little ones problem.

  • triky auto
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    edited December 2019 #2585

    SO warm today here at Faversham ,there are butterfly's out & about !! 

  • RedKite
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    edited December 2019 #2586

    Butterfly looking for a spot to hibernate Triky.  Have seen about 40 redwings flying over Cheddar club site today but the most birds flying every day are seagulls from the coast and back to the coast not to keen on them also had a wren flying around small river next to the site.

  • greylag
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    edited December 2019 #2587

    Considering it is pitch black inside the box, the picture is surprisingly good.   You can see the young birds quite clearly....I imagine if you bought a better camera than the one I have, the picture would be even better.

     

  • ABM
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    edited December 2019 #2588

    Some of the Chips fitted to  these modern security / nest box cameras and the pictures they produce would make my old Pappy with his quarter plate brass & mahogany jobbie go purple with rage & jealousy !!  Having said that, I still reckon get the best you can afford, but don't bankrupt the Christmas Fund wink

  • ABM
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    edited December 2019 #2590

     Dammit, Greylag that's a cracker of a piccy.

    Even I can clearly see the fine feathery bits beneath the lower beak !

    You do realise that you've just made Brian go purple with jealousy  don't you surprised

    Well done my friend, very well done !!

  • Rocky 2 buckets
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    edited December 2019 #2591

    +1, it is excellent👍🏻. It’s better to expand it from the thread pic than to transfer it to a library were it loses res. 

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited December 2019 #2592

    +2 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • greylag
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    edited December 2019 #2593

     It loses res because website makes us reduce it to below 500 megs.

    The GSW comes along 3 times a day....real treat.

  • brue
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    edited December 2019 #2594

    A lovely photo Greylag, on my touch screen laptop I can expand it and it's still ok, very clear in fact! smile

     

  • greylag
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    edited December 2019 #2595

    Bru...It was taken through the kitchen window,  the glass didn't spoil it too much.  I have set up my tripod in the conservatory behind a sheet, blocking out the birds view of me, hope to get better shots.

  • InaD
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    edited December 2019 #2596

    What a brilliant photo!  We get a GSW too, very shy though, the slightest movement and it's off.  But it visits a few times per day, and it's lovely to see.

  • Bluemalaga
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    edited December 2019 #2597

    Great shot of the GSW. GL. you did very well to control the overall detail  of the bird, given the light direction.

    Very envious of 3 visits a day, we haven't had one visit in over 30 years.

     

  • greylag
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    edited December 2019 #2598

    Its now 07.45...camera is on tripod...sheet draped across windows...camera poking through sheet and now we wait.

    1250 ISO....light is still poor.

  • greylag
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    edited December 2019 #2599

    07.45 set up...08.10 GSW arrived.....wouldn't share with other birds and quickly got rid of them.

    Such a simple common little bird, but this House Sparrow was a real treat, taken in Southwold last week.

    Nature does it every time!

  • brue
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    edited December 2019 #2600

    More lovely photos! Thank you Greylag.

    I was thinking about our feeders, we attract similar birds including a woodpecker but sadly the Greenfinches aren't around here any more. frown

  • papgeno
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    edited December 2019 #2601

    Out for a walk this morning and saw a white throated dipper just below Folly Dolly falls.

    Last week we were driving up a steep hill near home when I had to brake suddenly as a Sika deer ran across the road right in front of the car swiftly followed by a second one. The road has quite steep banks on either side and they seemed to just bounce on the road and off over the other bank into the woods. 

    The last time I saw a dipper was at Silverdale some 40 years ago. The last time a deer ran across in front of me like that was in the North Yorkshire moors on the way to Whitby and that was a good while ago too.

  • RedKite
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    edited December 2019 #2602

    Great photos greylag.  At Black Knowl at present had song thrushes and blackbirds 2 pitches away must have been something tasty on it and again a lot of redwings about and not really wildlife up to 6 new forest ponies on site a bit different, there is new fencing going around the site in the adjacent fields but there are a few holes in the hedge but have had the local agisters on site today to get things sorted no damage except for hoof prints and horse dung around the site which the warden has cleared up. 

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited December 2019 #2603

    Saw a flock of Long Tailed Tits this morning along the Ox Beck nr Harrogate, and then 4 Red Kites circling over the trees west of Ripley Castle this afternoon. 

  • papgeno
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    edited December 2019 #2604

    The dipper was there again this morning.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited December 2019 #2605

    Caught a fleeting glance of a Barn Owl last night when I took Flyte out for his last walk. Then today at Fountains Abbey we saw lots of Little Grebes on the lakes of the Water Gardens and then enjoyed half an hour in the bird hide with lots of birds on the various feeders....a pair of GSW; Tree Sparrows; Nuthatches; a Tree Creeper; the usual Robins, Chaffinches, Blue, Great and Coal Tits, and a Marsh/Willow Tit.

  • EasyT
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    edited December 2019 #2606

    I seem to see dippers every couple of years but it is 5 years since I watched one under water using its body shape and wings to hold it down on a rushing stream. Magic

  • Oneputt
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    edited December 2019 #2607

    Black Forest in Germany is good place to see Dippers.  Spent half hour at Wolfach watching adults teach juveniles how to work under water to feed.

    in the UK the beck in the bottom of High cup nick is another good spotting area

  • RedKite
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    edited December 2019 #2608

    We have a small flock of Redwings and Blackbirds on a grass area 2 pitches form ours and I saw something land in the hedge behind next door's pitch is was a male Bullfinch then flew off before I could take a picture, quite a few grey squirrels here nothing about now due to the heavy rain. Hoping our ferry sails tomorrow as our original sailing was cancelled for last night, hence the wildlife watching from the van.

  • Wherenext
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    edited December 2019 #2609

    Try a visit to Loggerheads ET. They nest under the stone bridge near the entrance to the Leete just past the centre. See them along that stretch quite often.

  • Wherenext
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    edited December 2019 #2610

    Unusual occurrence today. Had 2 different Wagtails feeding in the garden, a Pied and a Grey. Neither stayed long.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited December 2019 #2611

    Today at Saltburn there was a seal enjoying itself directly in front of the Pier. The we spotted a male Long Tailed Duck doing the same.