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Thank you Jan I trust you are keeping well?
Les
Les
Thank you Jan I trust you are keeping well?
Les
lovely mate,you did well very well indeed !! Ya just can't beat shooting in the best of blighty's grey can ya, I got to site twice and in came the grey,mind shorties were hunting which is always stunning to watch.My other two attempts grey when I left home lmao. .Fading light and thick fog meant ISO 10000 and 1/320th hand held @600mm, but at long last I've managed a shortie with a vole, hoping for some sunshine next time!
Short-eared owl with Vole by Phil D, on Flickr
lovely mate,you did well very well indeed !! Ya just can't beat shooting in the best of blighty's grey can ya, I got to site twice and in came the grey,mind shorties were hunting which is always stunning to watch.My other two attempts grey when I left home lmao. .
Phil me old mucker all the best for the new year oh and merry chrimbo aswell, well i'm at it I'd ask for a couple of days of sunny stuff over the break for both of us ,but it would be asking for a miracle:banghead:.,
Lovely to see with a kill Phil , I realise the detail isn't there but what can one do .it's still a lovely frame. ..... it#s just so much nicer shooting with a few spangles about especially these rascals.
have a good un kiddo cheers for the help and thoughts. this last while
stu
Thanks Stu, Merry Christmas and a happy New year to you and the family mate
The shot was one of those bitter sweet moments we've all experienced Stu, Shortie out hunting, makes a kill, lands on a post near enough for a shot with vole in its talons, then takes it in its beak, great to watch and something we all dream about capturing.
The bitter part, in good weather it was on a post that should've been in some glorious late afternoon sunlight :banghead:.........oh well, always next time! , cheers, atb matey
Swan Lake on Ice ... or 'don't land on frozen water'
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and a Magpie on a mission.
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So far, todays garden visitors are :
2 pairs of bullfinches
10-12 sparrows
2 fat wood pigeons
a thrush
2 or 3 blackbirds
starlings
some bluetits
Chaffinches
a collared dove
and the usual gaggle of rooks or crows that fly over a couple of times a day...
I'd love to get a decent shot of the bullfinches, but they're always at the bottom of the garden picking around on the grass (which is a bit tufty) so hides them
I remember having so many sparrows in the garden when we were growing up, and never see them nowdays, though there are some a few streets away. I miss them!
Saw this yesterday, does anyone know if this is Grey Wagtail?
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Great thanks - not seen one before and it seems to have less yellow on it's front than in my book and your photo - maybe a juvenile? Will head back and hopefully catch one again a bit closer/
Looks like a female Stonechat ... nice too.not too sure what the second one is.