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  • Oneputt
    Oneputt Club Member Posts: 9,144 ✭✭✭
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    edited June 2017 #632

    Fantastic pics Blue.  It's a great area isn't it.  We just went a few weeks too early.  Are you going to try and see the Dippers?  Great campsite as well.

  • brue
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    edited June 2017 #633

    Lovely to see such special photos. smile

  • Bluemalaga
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    edited June 2017 #634

    Hi OP

    We are hoping to visit the forest before we leave on Sunday. I am pretty sure we went there last year and saw nothing as we were caught in torrential rain.

    The Osprey was a fair way across the lake, so a lot of detail lost in the cropping, but an improvement on last years pics. First evening luck I have to admit, not seen much since. We take an evening trip most days hoping to strike lucky again, but most folk tell us we were extremely lucky to see a catch at all.

  • Oneputt
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    edited June 2017 #635

    Blue, the Dippers were in a place called Severn breaks it neck, I wrote directions a few pages back.  They may even have young now.

  • N1805
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    edited June 2017 #636

    Great photos Bluemalaga of birds in action that most would not get to see myself included so thanks for sharing.   Luck I guess does play a part of being in the right place & at the right time but knowing where that place may be is down to knowledge.  Enjoy the rest of your time away.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited June 2017 #637

    Great photos Bluemalaga. 

    Just had a visit from a Barn Owl who had what looked like mole in it's talons.laughing Lots of Whitethroats in the brush in front of the van, along with a number of warblers which I'm unable to identify.

  • greylag
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    edited June 2017 #638

    Having just got back from Croatia, I feel a bit out of it. Good photos BM.

    Bird life in Croatia was fairly quiet, one site in a coastal valley was full of singing Nightingales impossible to count, but must have been dozens.

    Now have to get my head in gear and start to watch our wildlife.

  • Oneputt
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    edited June 2017 #639

    Hey GL, There are Black Wing Stilts with chicks amongst other stuff, at Potter Higham marshes.  Going to see if I can find them in the next few days.

  • Bluemalaga
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    edited June 2017 #640

    Went to Severn break its neck yesterday, but no sign of dippers. Took 3 passes of the bridge, but only wagtails with beaks full of insects. Visited the Osprey nest on the way back to the van just as one of the parents went fishing. Before we could decide whether to look along the lake, it was back with a fish within 5 minutes.

    Thanks to all for the comments and good to see GL has returned to the fold.

    Drizzle today, so not sure where we will end up.

  • greylag
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    edited June 2017 #641

    BM

    Thanks for the comment.

    I will be glad to get back to what I like doing.

    Disappointing wildlife tally abroad, although we did have Turtle doves walking around our feet.

    Not really about wildlife, but I sat watching a German lad fishing on Lake Bled......and he pulled in 6 Carp weighing around 30 pounds each in 90 minutes.  The crowd applauded each one.......as I was snapping each fish he landed...his girlfriend gave me a beer!!!

    If we leave the EU...she might not do that again.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited June 2017 #642

    As well a second spot of the Barn Owl last night we were entertained for about 40 mins by at least one Grasshopper Warbler. It took us, and the others on site, a while to work out what was making the noise. No chance of spotting it but it's call was very distinctive. 

  • Oneputt
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    edited June 2017 #643

    Nell, I have this website on my phone, haven't looked for an App

    http://www.british-birdsongs.uk/

  • Oneputt
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    edited June 2017 #644

    Little Owl landed briefly on shed roof this morning, too quick for me to the camera into action.  Haven't seen it for a while so nice to have it return

     

  • Oneputt
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    edited June 2017 #645

    Whilst at Potter Higham nature reserve yesterday I was talking to a couple who assist in tagging Marsh Harriers.  So far this year from 17 nests they have tagged 66 chicks which is a record.  They still have 7 nests in Suffolk and Norfolk. 

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited June 2017 #646

     Just used the link OP, and keep getting a notification from a site called BlockAdBlocker, which I'm not going to open.

  • Oneputt
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    edited June 2017 #647

    Don't understand unless its a firewall thing as when I click on the link it goes straight to the website.  You could just google birdsong UK

  • Oneputt
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    edited June 2017 #648

    Black Wing Stilt with 2 x chicks at Potter Higham reserve yesterday.  Not a good photo as birds were about 300 yards away

     

  • Bluemalaga
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    edited June 2017 #649

    Sadly it was time to return home today before getting any more pics of the Ospreys, but tried to get some pics of sand martins in flight while waiting, boy do those boys move.

     

  • triky auto
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    edited June 2017 #650

    cool Got some lovely 'shots' of the "Oyster Catchers " today ,,,IF ONLY i could show them to you (and the German Storks) still trying !! undecided.

  • Bluemalaga
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    edited June 2017 #651

    Hi Triky

    Have you obtained some form of editing software, if so how are you getting on with it?

    You may get better advice if you switch your search for help to the photography thread.

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited June 2017 #652

    I'll do that, thanks.

    Saw the Barn Owl twice again last evening just as it was going dark,

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited June 2017 #653

    I'll do that, thanks.

    Saw the Barn Owl twice again last evening just as it was going dark,

  • Oneputt
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    edited June 2017 #654

    Found a couple of apps of birdsongs.  This one records and identifies the the song.  Might just give it a go.

    http://www.countryliving.co.uk/wildlife/countryside/news

  • triky auto
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    edited June 2017 #655

    undecided ,Thanks 'Blue' .

  • brue
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    edited June 2017 #656

    Are you trying to send photos from your phone or another device Triky. Someone might be able to help you if they know where to start from?

  • scoutman
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    edited June 2017 #657

    A pair of white tailed eagles flying over the Gap of Dunloe, Killarney National Park, only visible for no more than a few minutes before disappearing behind Purple Mountain but well worth it.

  • triky auto
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    edited June 2017 #658

    undecided My 'Lappy ' and stored images !!surprised.

  • Oneputt
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    edited June 2017 #659

    Triky, if you are running widows, open the photo you want to post, right click on it, click on open with, top of the list should be paint click on this and go to resize, click and a box opens with percentage or pixels, check the pixel tab and then resize, horizontal = 500, vertices is automatic.  Save the now resized photo and you can then post onto CT

  • Oneputt
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    edited June 2017 #660

    Red Backed Shrike at Breydon Water yesterday, showing well but a bit distant.   The stupid resizing regime on here means that the picture is nothing like the full size version

     

     

  • Bluemalaga
    Bluemalaga Forum Participant Posts: 936
    edited June 2017 #661

    OP

    may i suggest that creating a copy or duplicate in apple speak then cropping prior to resizing would perhaps show the bird more prominently. My osprey pics were a similar amount of crop you would need for this pic. I only ever make changes of this nature to copies so the original remains intact.

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