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    Wheatear, Great Orme, North Wales 22/10/2023

    I'd be interested in any thoughts on this wheatear I photographed on the Great Orme yesterday. Before I begin though, apologies for the blue tint, my camera was playing up with the white balance. I'm not sure if I can fix it now. The bird was on the limestone pavement at the northern tip of the...
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    Digital zoom v optical zoom and crop

    Excellent, thank you for the reply
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    Digital zoom v optical zoom and crop

    I've often heard people say that using digital zoom in the field is the same as using optical zoom and then cropping the image when I get it on my laptop. Is this really the case? Are there any advantages, however slight, to either option? I wonder if the digital zoom option might be marginally...
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    Great Android smartphone for digiscoping?

    Thanks, I'm disappointed to hear that. I'm close to buying a Google pixel 7 Pro, based on the fact that the camera is often reviewed as being one of the best there is on an android. Not sure what to do now.
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    How is the Google Pixel7 Pro for digiscoping?

    Hi, I'm on the verge of getting a Google Pixel 7 Pro. How is it for digiscoping? I've read some mixed reviews. I currently use a Samsung A52 with a Phoneskope lollipop adapter. Thanks for any help
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    Great Android smartphone for digiscoping?

    Can I ask, in what way was the Google Pixel 7 pro horrible for digiscoping?
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    How to see Leach's Petrel

    35 Leach's and a possible Wilson's from Hilbre today, also a cracking pale adult pom, with complete and intact spoons.
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    How to see Leach's Petrel

    What do you make of the forecast for tomorrow? Overnight we seem to have WSW force 5, then for the rest of the day WNW force 8. Obviously there are Leach's out there because some are being reported. I'm wondering if Crosby might be better than North Wirral? I'm thinking of giving the greater...
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    Viking gull? Ullapool, Scotland

    In July I saw this gull several times in Ullapool harbour in the North West Highlands. I've been calling it a 2nd summer glaucous gull but I've had a few nagging doubts since the first day I saw it. I'm wondering if it's actually a Viking gull? The first three photos below are all from July...
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    House martins landing in a bush to feed

    Yes the house martins were landing in the tree and picking the insects off the branches and leaves, as you can see in the original photos and in this one. Out of interest, the "Handbook to the swallows and martins of the world" (Turner/ Rose), Poyser 1989 states that "Exceptionally, they [house...
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    House martins landing in a bush to feed

    I'm affraid I couldn't tell, but nothing very big from a scan over with the binoculars. Aphid types perhaps. Interestingly, the birds only landed in the one bush, I didn't see them land in any other bush.
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    House martins landing in a bush to feed

    Anybody seen anything like this before, a flock of 200+ hirundines, mainly house martins but also a few swallows, perching on wires and then dropping into a bush to feed on insects. I watched them doing this for about 30 minutes at Nata, Cyprus today.
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    Gulls, Akrotiri, Cyprus 18/08/17

    Thanks
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    Gulls, Akrotiri, Cyprus 18/08/17

    These juvenile gulls were at Akrotiri, Cyprus today, with about 40 YLGs. They seem a bit small to be juv YLG to me, with long wings and shortish bill. I wondered if they might be Baltic gulls, which are now starting to pass through Cyprus. They looked dark enough on the upper wing when they...
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    Wader, Akrotiri, Cyprus 08/08/2017

    Can somebody please put me out of my misery and tell me what this wader is from Akrotiri today. It seemed larger than a little stint, more like dunlin size, but the bill and plumage seem wrong for what would surely be a juvenile if it was a dunlin. To me it looks more like an adult something. I...
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