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| Nuthatch at nest hole |
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| Nuthatch |
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| Nuthatch |
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
Nesting Nuthatch
A pair of Nuthatches are nesting in their usual tree in the local copse. I always just like to sit and watch them go about their lives.
Monday, 7 May 2018
Little Ringed Plover & Grey Plover
1st May 2018.
Davidstow airfield ( Cornwall) usually turns up one or two waders passing through in the spring, on driving around the runways I was pleased to find this Little Ringed Plover feeding beside a pool, this is not a common bird in this part of the country and this was the best views I've had of one. I was pleased to get some photos from the car, resting my lens on a beanbag. After a while it was joined by a Grey Plover which came very close allowing for some nice shots, pity it was a bit rainy but that's quite normal for this site.
Davidstow airfield ( Cornwall) usually turns up one or two waders passing through in the spring, on driving around the runways I was pleased to find this Little Ringed Plover feeding beside a pool, this is not a common bird in this part of the country and this was the best views I've had of one. I was pleased to get some photos from the car, resting my lens on a beanbag. After a while it was joined by a Grey Plover which came very close allowing for some nice shots, pity it was a bit rainy but that's quite normal for this site.
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| Little Ringed Plover |
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| Little Ringed Plover |
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| Grey Plover |
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| Grey Plover |
Friday, 6 April 2018
Winter Birds
March 2018.
We really don't have too much snow down here on the Devon/Cornwall border, so a covering of the white stuff was a bit of a novelty on two separate weeks in March. I could have panicked and ran around with my long lens and end up photographing nothing at all or just stay in the garden ,put out some food and a few props and see what common species turned up, which is what I decided upon. The right approach I think.
We really don't have too much snow down here on the Devon/Cornwall border, so a covering of the white stuff was a bit of a novelty on two separate weeks in March. I could have panicked and ran around with my long lens and end up photographing nothing at all or just stay in the garden ,put out some food and a few props and see what common species turned up, which is what I decided upon. The right approach I think.
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| Male Chaffinch |
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| Robin |
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| Robin |
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| Female Sisken |
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| Long tailed Tit |
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| Long Tailed Tit |
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| Jackdaw |
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| Blue Tit |
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| Blue Tit |
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| Carrion Crow |
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| Great Spotted Woodpecker male |
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| Great Spotted Woodpecker male |
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| Collared Dove |
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| Coal Tit |
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| Great Tit |
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| Lapwing-The freezing temperatures brought lots of these in close to the house. |
Sunday, 25 March 2018
Speyside
11th- 16th March 2018.
Mrs D and I have just returned home from a week in the Scottish highlands joining up with son Dan and his good wife Mary and their two young children Martha and Theo.We were based in Nethybridge which is in easy reach of all the wildlife hotspots. Although more of a family holiday I of course managed to slip away quite often with my camera, and when on walks together ( usually places I suggested he he) it was a given that I may wander off in a different direction or maybe just hang behind the others. They know me well!. Anyway some fantastic wildlife was seen in some wonderful scenery.
Mrs D and I have just returned home from a week in the Scottish highlands joining up with son Dan and his good wife Mary and their two young children Martha and Theo.We were based in Nethybridge which is in easy reach of all the wildlife hotspots. Although more of a family holiday I of course managed to slip away quite often with my camera, and when on walks together ( usually places I suggested he he) it was a given that I may wander off in a different direction or maybe just hang behind the others. They know me well!. Anyway some fantastic wildlife was seen in some wonderful scenery.
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| Frozen River ,Findhorn |
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| Red Deer-Findhorn valley |
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| Red deer ( mid chew)-Findhorn valley |
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| Red Deer -Findhorn valley |
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| Red Deer-Findhorn valley |
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| Red Deer calf-Findhorn valley |
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| Red Deer calf-Findhorn valley |
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| Mountain Hare-Findhorn |
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| Mountain Hare-Findhorn |
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| Mountain Hare whiteout-Findhorn |
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| Wild(ish)Goat -Findhorn |
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| Goats-Findhorn |
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| Snow Bunting- Cairngorm |
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| Red Grouse-Findhorn |
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| Goldeneye-Nethybridge |
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| Treecreeper-Loch Garten |
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| Mallards fighting on the ice--Boat of Garten |
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| Mallards on ice-Boat of Garten |
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| Badger-in a field beside the road in the middle of the day. |
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| Red squirrel- Loch an Eilein |
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| Red squirrel-Loch an Eilein |
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| Red squirrel-Loch an Eilein |
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| Red Squirrel-Loch an Eilein |
Monday, 5 February 2018
Glaucous and Iceland Gulls
1st February 2018.
I spent most of the day loafing around Newlyn Harbour in West Cornwall, trying to get some photos of the adult and juvenile Glaucous Gulls and juvenile ( 1st winter) Iceland Gull that have been present for a while now, but alas no sign of the Kunliens Gull that was also around. I have seen and photographed Iceland Gulls before now , but as for Glaucous , although I've seen a few , I haven't got a decent photograph since one at Par ( also Cornwall) back in 1998, twenty years ago! There seem to be quite a few of these two species around Cornwall & Devon at the moment so wont get a better chance of seeing them.
I spent most of the day loafing around Newlyn Harbour in West Cornwall, trying to get some photos of the adult and juvenile Glaucous Gulls and juvenile ( 1st winter) Iceland Gull that have been present for a while now, but alas no sign of the Kunliens Gull that was also around. I have seen and photographed Iceland Gulls before now , but as for Glaucous , although I've seen a few , I haven't got a decent photograph since one at Par ( also Cornwall) back in 1998, twenty years ago! There seem to be quite a few of these two species around Cornwall & Devon at the moment so wont get a better chance of seeing them.
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| Adult Glaucous Gull in Newlyn Harbour |
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| Adult Glaucous Gull |
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| Adult Glaucous Gull adult portrait |
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| Adult Glaucous Gull |
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| Juvenile Glaucous Gull |
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| Juvenile Glaucous Gull |
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| Juvenile Glaucous GUll |
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| Juvenile Iceland Gull |
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| Juvenile Iceland Gull |
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| Juvenile Iceland Gull |
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| Juvenile Iceland Gull flight |
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| Juvenile Iceland Gull feeding |
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| Juvenile Iceland Gull with a piece of rope! |
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| Juvenile Iceland Gull flight |
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