What have you seen
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More wonderful photographs lovely to see.
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Two minutes earlier and I might have got the CWD coming out of river and not just shaking the water off.
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Thanks, Oneputt. Quite fancied going for the owl today, but was outvoted. How you can get outvoted when there's just 2 of you I'm not sure, but I was!
Anyway, we went to Snettisham this morning, wild and windy, just how it should be. Afternoon, we went on to Roydon common / Grimston warren reserve. Great views of woodlarks, this is the only place I've ever seen them. Also a barn owl flying over late afternoon.
Now back at the 'van planning tomorrow's birding!
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Just read on Penny’s blog.
MINI INVASION OF SNOWY OWLS?!
Do we have a mini invasion of Snowy Owls going on – along with the recent 'beast from the east' and 'mini beast' (what silly names!)?!!!
Snowy Owl 1w female on Scolt Head Island/Titchwell RSPB and Snettisham RSPB.
Snowy Owl, unconfirmed sighting on Monday at Brancaster?
Snowy Owl 1w female yesterday at Friskney in Lincolnshire.
Snowy Owl fem on Calf of Eday, Orkney
Snowy Owl 1w female on Tresco, Isles of Scilly
Snowy Owl in Nether Poppleton, Yorkshire
Snowy Owl unconfirmed report in Warslow, Staffordshire
Snowy Owl (22 March) NW of Newport in South Wales0 -
OP
Have you checked out the beginners guide togimp on u-tube.
Not checked it myself but may be of assistance.
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Waiting for Barn owl to appear when a man stopped to talk and the owl popped up right behind him....Grrrrr
Substitute was this swan.
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GL
Seems a bit like Marcus Rashford.
Substitute sometimes better than the starter. Nice shot.
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I managed to take our old terrier along the field hedgerows late this afternoon, she 's still interested in the rabbit burrows, I was interested in spotting last years bird nests, just visible before the leaves start to appear. There are a few hawthorn leaves out already. I spotted a buzzard wheeling and calling overhead. A nice walk after all the recent bad weather.
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I love the distinctive call that the buzzards make.
We are lucky enough to have a pair that often hunt in our local fields. Only yesterday they circled high over our house on their way to another hunting ground, It was only their call that gave them away.
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Male Cuckoo seen and heard today here in the Lot, sounds like he has a sore throat at present. Also saw Crag Martins seen on the way to friends last week, not seen any swallows yet an article in local paper says that a lot of species are declining over here including swallows not good news same for many species of insects.
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How is your progress with Gimp OP. Did you used to use Photoshop Elements in the past?
Made a trip over to Chew Valley lake today as an Osprey had been sighted. All I saw was a lot of rain and a very lonely and cold icecream salesman and some bonkers fly fishermen in a boat.
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Been out to Stowe Gardens today (NT) quite a few Red Kites around today , most I've seen for a while. Just why the Crow's chase them I'll never know
the Kites are so much bigger. There was also a Buzzard on the verge on the road home, feeding off the road kill.
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Helen, they harry them simply because they see them as a threat. The same with almost every bird of prey they come across. Very occasionally they'll get too close or make the Buzzard turn on them but most times they achieve their aim of "scaring"them away.
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I had a close encounter with a Sparrow Hawk yesterday. Just as I turned the corner of a lane it was perched in a bush directly in front of me, eying up some feeders in a garden over the lane.
I don't know who was more surprised, me or the Hawk and after spotting me it soon made a hasty retreat into the copse.
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Interesting being outside in the garden today, spotted a pair of greenfinches (we haven't seen any for several months) and a whitethroat. Also noticed a Bluetit trying to pull off tufts from a tennis ball, surprising what goes into their nests. Must remember to put out the hair collected in the the dog brush.
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Agreed Brue.
We had to stay home today waiting for a delivery. All our usual visitors have now paired up, including the female Blackcap. The feeders were visited all day by pairs. Dunnocks, Goldfinches, Greenfinches, Blackbirds, Bluetits, Long tailed Tits, Coal Tits, Robins, Collared Doves, Magpie,
The Bluetits appear to be setting up home in one of our nest boxes for the first time since they were put up 2 years ago and as you said previously, we have Greenfinches for the first time in years.
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Great pictures, BM, I like the nest box one too.
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Thanks Guys/Gals
We have two boxes one aimed at Blue tits and the other with a slightly larger hole. This little bird is busy making both hole bigger or smoother or whatever. It can't make up its mind which one it likes best. Very strange to see it flit from one to the other. We do hope it stays.
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Ah, Spring. Went for a lovely walk around the locale today. The smell of newly mowed lawns, the cherry blossom, the silage!
Almost every bird we saw had some sort of nesting material or was singing from a vantage point. There was a lonely Swallow twittering away on a lamppost, loads of Chiffchaffs chiff-chaffing away.
Last year some Blue Tits found a small hole in the soffat boards above next doors kitchen window, just tucked under an overhanging so we could only see half of it. My MIL stopped the house owner (it's rented) from boarding it up in May as Blue Tits were on the nest. We are a little bit worried this year as the house has new owners who put up a temporary blockage about 4 weeks ago but it's fallen down and those pesky BT's are inspecting the hole. We'll have to make sure the hole isn't blocked up but I'm not so sure the new neighbour will take much notice. Have to send MIL out to scare him.
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